If you know ESM for helping students enroll, graduate and succeed by offering solutions along the student lifecycle, we're even bigger and better now as a Xerox company. ESM was founded in 1995, and in 2011 acquired by Xerox. In today’s higher education landscape, colleges and universities are challenged to boost enrollment, reduce costs, provide exceptional service and improve graduation rates. Now, as part of Xerox, discover the additional innovative solutions for higher education we can offer to help you improve the student experience and your institution’s bottom line. As a premier Business Process Outsourcer, ESM operates the largest education-only contact center in the country with over 800 employees. ESM's enrollment services deliver rapid, cost-effective lead processing, high contact rates and strong conversion rates. Additionally, ESM's student lifecycle solutions include financial aid solutions leveraging the latest in technology and best in customer care, retention services to improve graduation rates, help desk resources that offer personalized service and convenient access, career placement services to help students succeed professionally, counseling services to help students repay their loans, analytics services to help schools manage Cohort Default Rates (CDRs) and continuing education support to help students extend their learning.