Leads are essentially information you get from lead providers on people who can be useful to you and your company. How leads are useful to providers of education is a rather new trend that is slowly picking up and is being seen as the new hope for schools who are finding it hard to maintain a particular number of students in college every year. Why are education leads becoming more important to educational institutions and why are more and more of these schools online and even offline using these leads to increase the number of enrollees and students in their roster? How are these leads being used to generate the kind of results some schools need and want? Is there just one kind of education lead that educational institutions can use or are there a few distinct types that can be utilized?