How to boost growth for your skilling institute in 2025
Skilling institutes are booming, but fee collection remains a silent barrier to growth. Here’s how flexible payments can unlock smoother admissions & scale.
From growth to growing pains
In our last post, we saw how skilling institutes are winning the race against traditional degree colleges. Shorter courses, affordable fees, and job-ready outcomes are pulling in students faster than ever.
But rapid growth brings new challenges. And one of the biggest — yet least discussed — is fee collection.
Why fee collection is so tricky
Unlike degree colleges that run on fixed semesters, skilling institutes:
- Admit students year-round (rolling admissions)
- Offer short courses lasting weeks or months
- Depend on predictable cash flow to pay trainers and run operations
This model makes traditional, upfront fee collection difficult. Here’s what usually goes wrong:
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Upfront fees are a barrier
Students often hesitate to pay the full fee at once. Lost admissions = lost revenue.
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Flexibility is expected
Parents and professionals ask for installments, EMIs, or pay-as-you-learn models. Without them, many drop off.
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Manual tracking breaks down
Excel sheets, registers, and WhatsApp reminders → missed payments and delayed collections.
Note: Jodo’s Fee management system makes payment reconciliation a breeze!
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Admin overload
Staff spend hours chasing fees instead of improving student experience.
The ripple effect on growth
When fee collection isn’t smooth, the entire institute feels it:
- Lower admissions (upfront costs scare students away)
- Cash flow uncertainty (hard to pay salaries or expand programs)
- Burnt-out admin teams
- A poorer student experience
In short: fee collection can make or break scale.
How smart institutes are solving this
Forward-looking institutes are turning to Jodo’s digital solutions that:
- Enable installment-based and EMI payments
- Send automated reminders on due dates
- Provide real-time dashboards for management
- Eliminate manual tracking and stress
The results? Higher enrollments, steady cash flow, and happier students.
Top skilling institutes using Jodo
Jodo partners with some of India’s most trusted skilling institutes — and makes it easy for students to pay fees in convenient plans. From guaranteed-job programs to single-skill academies that help start earning independently, here are some of the leading institutes powered by Jodo:
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Institutes offering degree like skill programs that are in high demand
- NxtWave – CS & software engineering
- Masai School – Full-stack development
- Master’s Union – Tech-focused MBA
- Mesa School of Business – New-age business education
- Emversity – Nursing
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Institutes offering short term skill programs with placement assistance
- Hiveschool – Sales training
- Growth School – AI, product, marketing
- Classic Fitness Academy – Fitness
- Be10x – AI for professionals
- Boston Institute of Analytics, ExcelR – Data science
- QuantInsti, ExcelR – Stock markets
- Kraftshala – Digital marketing
- Arena Animation / MAAC – Design & animation
- AAFT – Media & creative arts
- Think and Grow Rich Academy – Leadership programs
- StarAgile – Agile & multi-skilling
- Talentsprint – Multi-skilling for professionals
- Lanstitut – Teaching German language for jobs in Germany
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Single-skill institutes enabling independent earning
- Airblack – Beauty & culinary
- Fashionpreneur - Fashion
- Cloud Kitchen Network - Restaurants
- AORE - Retail
- Mad About Sports - Sports
- Counsel India - Psychology
- My Business Tycoon- Entrepreneurship
- BeerBiceps Skill House – Content creation
- The Doctorpreneur Academy – Healthcare
- The Battraa Numerology – Numerology
- LawSikho – Legal skilling
- Uability – Grow your business
Across these categories — placement-driven, skill-focused, or self-employment programs — Jodo helps institutes simplify fee collection and gives students flexible ways to pay.
If you’re a skilling institute, don’t get left behind. Join the growing network of 3,000+ institutes using Jodo today.
The way ahead
Skilling institutes are shaping India’s future workforce. But to keep scaling, they need systems that make payments as seamless as learning.
That’s exactly what Jodo enables: flexible fee plans, automated reminders, and hassle-free collections — so you can focus on education, not chasing fees.
Book a free demo to see how Jodo helps skilling institutes grow without payment headaches.
For more insight into how Jodo is revolutionizing fee collection, connect with Jodo Co-founder, Raghav Nagarajan on LinkedIn.
