Can colleges use AI to follow up Shiksha and Collegedunia leads?
Yes. Colleges buying leads from Shiksha, Collegedunia or CollegeDekho can route them to an AI voice agent through Zapier, Make or a webhook, so each student is called within 30 seconds. The agent confirms course interest, entrance exam, scores and city, answers fee and eligibility questions from the college's brief, and books a counselling call or campus visit, with every detail logged for admissions.
Aggregator leads are shared leads
A student who fills a form on an education portal for an MBA or BTech is usually shown to several colleges. Whichever admissions officer calls first gets to frame the conversation. Colleges pay per lead or per package, yet many leads are called once, late, by a counsellor juggling hundreds.
What the call covers
- —Course and specialisation the student is considering, and the intake year.
- —Entrance exam taken or planned, such as JEE Main, CAT, MAT, CUET or a state CET, and the score or expected score.
- —Whether the student has seen the fee, and whether an education loan is likely.
- —Hostel need, city preference and who in the family is deciding.
- —A booked slot for a counselling call or campus visit, with the brochure sent on WhatsApp.
Eligibility without overpromising
The agent can read out published eligibility criteria and past cut-offs from the college's brief. It should not tell a student they are guaranteed a seat or a scholarship. Admission decisions stay with the college, and the call summary flags borderline cases for a counsellor.
Bulk follow-up across the cycle
Admission cycles run for months, from exam results through counselling rounds. A bulk campaign can call every lead who has not applied after each milestone: results day, the application deadline and the start of counselling. Each call updates the student's status so the admissions team works only the warm list.
Outpero speaks Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and English. A college in Coimbatore can call Tamil-first while still serving students from north India in Hindi, by running separate agents per language.
A three-minute qualifying call on the ₹5 Standard voice costs ₹15. Set against what colleges pay for each aggregator lead, calling every one of them quickly is the cheaper habit.
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