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Ellucian Colleague

Ellucian Colleague

Overview

What is Ellucian Colleague?

Ellucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.

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Consistency and Unity: Users appreciate that Colleague offers a single reference point for all student data, creating consistency and …
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Helpful in Most Cases!

7 out of 10
November 28, 2018
Incentivized
Colleague Student is being used across various departments (Enrollment Services, Admissions, International Student Office, etc). It helps …
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Florante Roa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Florante Roa
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations
College of the Desert (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
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Product Details

What is Ellucian Colleague?

Ellucian Colleague Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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June 30, 2023

Ellucian Colleague - your excellent Student ERP and more!

Florante Roa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Florante Roa
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations
College of the Desert (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pros and Cons
  • WebUI - User Interface
  • Self Service
  • Degree Audit
  • Financial Aid
  • Registration
  • Federal and State Reporting
  • Student Planning
  • Tracking
  • 320 Reports
  • Waitlist and Add Permission
  • HR Modules
  • Fiscal Modules
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.
Ellucian Colleague Feature Ratings
Student Data (6)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Student Attendance Tracking
90%
9.0
Student Health Information
100%
10.0
Grade Book Management
100%
10.0
Student Background Records
100%
10.0
Student and Parent Portal
90%
9.0
Transcript Management
100%
10.0
Student and Faculty Administration (12)
94.16666666666666%
9.4
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
90%
9.0
Online Registration Management
100%
10.0
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
80%
8.0
Roster Management
90%
9.0
Platform Customization
100%
10.0
Teacher Self-Service
90%
9.0
Student Data Security
100%
10.0
Community Support
100%
10.0
Class Scheduling
90%
9.0
State and National-level Reporting
100%
10.0
Compliance Support
100%
10.0
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
90%
9.0
Return on Investment
  • Modernization Contract - kept the prices increase stable & affordable
  • Better systems for recruiting, enrollments, retainment, and degree audit
  • Better scheduling and data security/maintenance
  • Self Service
Alternatives Considered
Banner & PeopleSoft are using the very expensive Oracle DB - while they all have very similar features. Currently, another solution provider is available - WorkDay: but they are still very new that they do not have all the necessary Federal and State Reports. Their FInancial Aid is lacking too.
August 30, 2021

Reliable Business Continuity

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Accounting
  • Data Integrity
  • Data Insight
  • Documentation
  • Database evolution
  • Cost
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.
Ellucian Colleague Feature Ratings
Student Data (6)
91.66666666666666%
9.2
Student Attendance Tracking
90%
9.0
Student Health Information
90%
9.0
Grade Book Management
90%
9.0
Student Background Records
90%
9.0
Student and Parent Portal
90%
9.0
Transcript Management
100%
10.0
Student and Faculty Administration (6)
81.66666666666666%
8.2
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
60%
6.0
Platform Customization
80%
8.0
Student Data Security
100%
10.0
Class Scheduling
80%
8.0
State and National-level Reporting
80%
8.0
Compliance Support
90%
9.0
Return on Investment
  • Operations have been reliable
  • Some increased costs have been unwelcome
  • Not as third-party friendly
Alternatives Considered
Ellucian Colleague remains the most cost competitive solution for our organization. Alternative solutions, have had ridiculously high migration costs and ongoing maintenance fees which have not been friendly toward a migration of our existing data. Some the features of the other solutions are very nice to "haves" but the reward has to out-weigh the cost of adoption.
Other Software Used
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Arcsight Enterprise Security Manager (formerly HP Arcsight), Belkin Meeting Room Power Center
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