Ellucian Colleague Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our institution has been a client and user of Ellucian Colleague for decades. The platform provides easy access to student and faculty records and assists the University in keeping accurate records and in making data-informed decisions. Ellucian Colleague continues to be a wonderful platform for student and faculty data needs across the institution.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ellucian Colleague is wonderful at streamlining processes and unifying data related to students, finance, human resources, and financial aid. It continues to support and manage administrative needs, enhance student experiences, and improve operational efficiency across the University. Ellucian Colleague is less suited for quick data retrieval and comprehensive financial reporting. These functions could use some improvement to optimize the user experience.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ellucian Colleague serves as the primary constituent database for NDMU's student and parent record-keeping. Among manifold business problems, the product addresses the need for student and parent information, such as address, major, degree information, advising, student financial aid details, and other critical data points, ensuring that students and parents can adequately connect with the University.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ellucian Colleague is well suited for student academic information recall, such as advisement details, courses, primary choice, GPAs, and demographic information critical to in-time decision-making for faculty and institutional leadership. Less appropriate scenarios would include our financial management needs, such as accounting, ledgers, and financial transactions. These functions are better suited to other CRMs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As our Student ERP System. We also use this one to comply with all Federal and State mandated reports and obligations. Ellucian Colleague has a tracking system - to follow all the activities and relations within the Student ERP Systems.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best Student ERP System in the market today (price to value). Other solutions are not financially feasible due to the Database price, licensing fee, support, and maintenance. The staff know-how in Database administration is also another factor to consider in choosing the ERP system. Colleague is using the Unidata database - very affordable and very easy to maintain.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Ellucian Colleague across our whole organization for all of our ERP needs. We are able to utilize the product for our higher education needs such as for students, staff, faculty, alumni, and business functions. Over the time that we've adopted the solution we adopted other enhancement Ellucian products within the suite to make reaching into the database more productive. We come a long way since the initial implementation. Now we look forward to further features coming down the pike so we'll be able to let many of the daily data entry tasks more accessible for users to do for themselves.

Likelihood to Recommend

Colleague is a time tested solution that still manages to get the work done. Updates are still made regularly and the backend functions remain reliably compliant. There are some limitations to the database that some other solutions may do better as they do not have a long history of legacy elements to support. Still the solution remains reliable and trustworthy, where newcomer solutions may be a little too green field and costly to initiate a change.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ellucian Colleague is used as the main ERP system for our college. We have in use many of the modules that are available, such as Core Student, Human Resources, Purchasing, Student planning, and ETHOS. It handles the student registration process, employee management, student record management, business office functions, and also integrates with many third-party systems.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ellucian Colleague is well suited for an organization looking for a solution that is flexible and allows them to design workflows and processes that align with their business. Ellucian Colleague is able to bring a unique integration strategy into your organization and connect to third-party systems and data very effectively.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ellucian Colleague is our primary ERP for all areas it supports including Student Records, Financial Aid, HR, and others. Our entire university depends greatly upon this software as the primary repository of data from admission to alumni as well as employee management. We have very few areas that don't depend upon Ellucian Colleague on a daily basis.

Likelihood to Recommend

Colleague is well suited to those looking for a one-stop shop for Higher Education. Additionally, they provide tools to customize most of their products. They are top notch for those looking for a student life cycle. Schools looking for an out of the box solution will do fairly well here as well when paired with a company to help manage the server sprawl and updates.

Since the student area is the primary focus, there are other best of breed tools for other areas for those not looking for a student focused toolset.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Colleague is used as a resource/archive system information. Users of Colleague at my company are able to pull student records such as addresses, class schedule, phone numbers, and other pieces of vital information. Colleague addresses the problem of record keeping at my institution; being able to store information for a large population enables better utilization of space since paper records do not need to be kept.

Likelihood to Recommend

Colleague Student is a lifesaver in situations where I need to get in contact with students in situations of high importance. I can figure out when they will be in their class which makes it easier to have the professor connect with a student of concern or I can look up a phone number to give the student a call. Colleague also helps in the housing department to charge students for any damage fees resident may incur while staying in the residence halls.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Colleague Student is used across the university to hold our students' academic records and to provide registration as well as other functions, like student accounts, financial aid, etc. This system was chosen to replace our legacy system because it was much more user friendly and allowed us to offer our students a seamless experience across the university with their information and records.

Likelihood to Recommend

Colleague Student is a great solution for smaller schools. I'm not sure it would work well at a large university (10,000 plus students) -- I'm not sure it has capacity to handle that. It is also well suited for universities where departments communicate well with each other. There is so much cross functionality, that if departments don't communicate well, issues could arise if one department makes changes without notifying or talking with other departments about the change.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ellucian Colleague is the main student system used by Elon University. The system is connected to a host of disparate systems across campus. The enterprise wide system is used to track the life-cycle of the student.

Likelihood to Recommend

Colleague works well for small schools with a VERY simple curriculum. It is not designed for bigger schools that need flexibility. For years the system has put Registrars in a bad place by saying "this can't be done in our current student system," giving Registrars the image of being barriers to progress.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Colleague Student is being used across various departments (Enrollment Services, Admissions, International Student Office, etc). It helps provide an overall scope of student that includes his/her educational background, demographics, history, and so forth.

Likelihood to Recommend

Colleague Student helps to check on the academic history of students immediately and their hiatus which I find useful. I just get frustrated with the number of buttons and associated buttons that make it annoying to find which way to go back to a current page I am looking at.