About 70 organisations attended the Isle of Man Higher Education Fair at Ballakermeen High School.
The one-stop shop was open to all post-16 students at the island’s schools and Isle of Man College as well as potential mature students and recent A Level students who chose not to attend university after their exams.
The conference opened on Thursday evening with presentations by Jane Murphy from the University of Huddersfield and Andrea Bourne from the University of York, addressing parents and students about the higher education application process.
It continued the following day with hundreds of people attending.
Three institutions were attending for the first time, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the University of Bournemouth, and Buckinghamshire New University.
The University of East Anglia, and Goldsmiths, University of London were welcomed back having not been able to find a delegate in recent years.
Other bodies attending included the Student Awards Section from the Department for Education and Children, Isle of Man Employment Services, and Study Options, a firm endorsed by the Department of Education for organising gap year experiences in Australia and New Zealand.
Each year, the school invites universities and other institutions of higher education to the island to meet Manx students and their parents and carers.
The school first ran the event in the late 1980s to ensure the island’s students were not disadvantaged by a lack of information in making their university choices.