What is your top priority?
Nearpeer extends each college's unique community and culture
What’s different about Nearpeer?
Students love Nearpeer AND it is the most proven, research‑validated platform for improving student belonging, enrollment, persistence, and success.
Nearpeer is the Platform for Belonging™ and empowers students to organically create dozens of rich, meaningful friendships with their peers early in their college journeys. We meet students where they are – on their mobile devices – to help them “find their people” and be more committed, prepared, resilient, and likely to succeed.
Each campus’ Nearpeer community is customized to meet their strategic needs. Our partners receive key insights to better understand and serve their students, and staff can even leverage the platform to better engage with new recruits.
Built on over a decade of student-centric innovation and research, Nearpeer’s private, invitation-only, and safe virtual spaces are customized for your community to connect. No other technology helps students find peers based on over 3,600 peer-matching criteria, including similar interests, passions, hobbies, goals, identities, career aspirations, affinities, clubs, majors, and hometowns. Nearpeer’s multi-dimensional approach is proven to break down silos and bring students together, reducing loneliness, isolation, and anxiety in the process.
Watch these examples of how colleges introduce Nearpeer pre-enrollment for greater student recruitment, retention, resilience, and wellbeing.
Which students does Nearpeer help?
Prospects
Increase applications
Admits
Increase your yield rate
Commits
Reduce melt & poaching
New
Better orientation & move-in
Current
Strengthen community
We’re leaders in the practice, research, and impact of student belonging
We’re so effective, Forbes calls Nearpeer’s enrollment and retention impact,
Learn how Nearpeer can help you
Better together.
Foundations and other grant-makers are essential partners in our work. With grant funding for participating institutions, Nearpeer catalyzes large-scale, systemic gains in college access, student success, and well-being. Learn more here.
Huron Consulting Group recognizes Nearpeer as an innovator in the student experience
Nearpeer is proud to be included in Huron’s EdTech Rise 40 as one of the global leaders in transforming recruitment, retention, and career readiness.
Defying the enrollment cliff via human connection
webinar
Watch the on-demand replay of this live, one-on-one discussion with Dr. Javier Garza, Vice President of Enrollment Management at Tarleton State University. Tarleton is a Nearpeer partner, founding member of the Texas A&M System, and the fastest-growing public university in Texas, achieving a record 49% enrollment growth in 3 years.
CSUN releases new Nearpeer invite for 2026 admitted students
Watch this new student-led video introducing admitted students to Nearpeer at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
🚀 Forbes: Nearpeer is “A Very Big Deal”
This Forbes article discusses Nearpeer’s impact on enrollment & persistence. See why Forbes calls Nearpeer “a college recruitment tool that’s proven to work”.