Intake month decides the institute's whole year, so the budget followed the enrolment deadline.
The Challenge
The institute's intake months decide its year. It ran one campaign for more than twenty courses, so popular courses took the budget and new courses never got seen, and visitors who browsed a course and left were never reached again.
The Results
- Clicks38.9K
- Conversions2.07K
- Avg. CPC$0.43
- Cost$16.8K
Out of every 100 clicks
5.3 converted
Conversion rate 5.3%, calculated from conversions ÷ clicks. Industry average for Education & Instruction: 13.14%.
Cost per conversion
$8.13
64% above the median of our 14 accounts ($4.97)
Each dot is one Google Ads account in our portfolio; the line marks the median. Lower is better.
Against the industry average
90% lower cost per conversion
Benchmark: LocaliQ Search Advertising Benchmarks 2026, US search ads averages. This account ran in the UAE, where clicks usually cost less than in the US, so read the gap as a guide rather than a like-for-like test.
See the Google Ads screenshot these figures come from

How We Did It, Service by Service
PPC
Budget by course, timed to intake
Each course family had its own campaign, so we could fund the courses with open seats and pull back on full ones. Spend peaked in the last two weeks before intake closed, when searchers were ready to enrol.
Website
Course pages that answer the three questions
Every course page opened with the start date, the fee and the qualification at the end. Enquiry forms asked for the course and the intake, so admissions could reply with the right information.
Social Media
Bringing back the browsers
People who read a course page and left saw a short social sequence with the next intake date and a student story, which brought many back to enquire.
What We Delivered
- Course-family campaign rebuild
- Course landing pages
- Social retargeting sequence
Every Number, With Its Source
| Metric | Result | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conversions from Google Ads | 2.07K | August 2022 | Google Ads |
| Cost per conversion | $8.13 | August 2022 | Google Ads (cost ÷ conversions) |
| Of clicks became a conversion | 5.3% | August 2022 | Google Ads (conversions ÷ clicks) |
| Paid clicks at $0.43 each | 38.9K | August 2022 | Google Ads |
| Cost per conversion vs the Education & Instruction average cost per lead ($77.48) | 90% lower | August 2022 | Google Ads vs LocaliQ 2026 US benchmarks |