# EAB

> EAB is a Washington, D.C.-based education company that combines research, advisory services, enrollment marketing, and enterprise software to help schools recruit students, keep them on track, organize institutional data, raise funds, and plan for change. Its reach now stretches from K-12 districts and colleges to employers, giving it a view of the student journey from first search to first job.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** Washington, D.C., United States
- **Team size:** More than 1,800 employees, according to EAB's CEO biography; external company data supplied for this profile estimates about 2,000.
- **Products:** Navigate360, Enroll360, Edify, Rapid Insight, Starfish
- **Notable:** Expanded from a small 2007 research team into a company serving more than 2,800 organizations by 2026., Built a portfolio spanning enrollment, student success, institutional data, strategy, advancement, and workforce talent., Forage surpassed 10 million student engagements by August 2025.

## Products & services

- **Navigate360** — A higher-education CRM and student-success platform that connects recruitment, advising, engagement, progress, and alumni workflows, with responsible-AI features.
- **Enroll360** — Enrollment-management partnerships combining student search, audience data, marketing campaigns, recruitment strategy, and yield support.
- **Edify** — A higher-education data platform that combines cloud data warehousing, governance, integration, and direct-to-user analytics.
- **Rapid Insight** — Code-free data preparation, predictive modeling, and dashboard tools for institutional teams; acquired to extend Edify's self-service analytics capabilities.
- **Starfish** — Student-success software for advising, early alerts, case management, and keeping students on track; acquired from Hobsons.
- **Appily** — A student-facing college-search and planning platform assembled from Cappex, College Greenlight, YouVisit, and Concourse capabilities.
- **Virtual Tours** — Immersive campus tours and interactive experiences built on YouVisit technology to support discovery and recruitment.
- **Strategic Advisory Services** — Research, benchmarking, expert advice, implementation support, and peer learning for education leadership teams.
- **Seramount** — Workplace research, culture analytics, learning, and talent services for employers seeking higher-performing, more inclusive workplaces.
- **Forage** — Free virtual job simulations for students and an early-talent sourcing and employer-brand platform for companies.
- **Hybrid** — Global higher-education digital marketing, media, creative, web development, and AI-powered campaign analytics.

## Achievements

- Expanded from a small 2007 research team into a company serving more than 2,800 organizations by 2026.
- Built a portfolio spanning enrollment, student success, institutional data, strategy, advancement, and workforce talent.
- Forage surpassed 10 million student engagements by August 2025.
- Appily reports more than 3 million students using its college-search platform.
- EAB says more than 95% of partners return year after year.
- Recognized in lists including Washington Post Top Workplaces, the GSV 150, and The Software Report's Power 500.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — EAB reported that more than half of parents use AI to research colleges.
- **2026-04** — A survey of 9,516 recent high-school graduates found rising cost-of-living pressure and growing concern about AI's effect on entry-level careers.
- **2026-02** — EAB reported that 46% of more than 5,000 surveyed high-school students used AI tools during college search, up from 26% in spring 2025.
- **2026-01** — EAB acquired UK-based Hybrid, adding global digital marketing, creative, analytics, and AI-powered enrollment capabilities.
- **2025-08** — Forage announced it had passed 10 million student engagements across its virtual job simulations.
- **2024-04** — EAB agreed to acquire Forage and place it within the Seramount talent division.

## Links

- Website: https://eab.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eab-
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/EAB
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eab9025
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/WeAreEAB

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Last updated: 2026-08-14