Ellucian Colleague

Ellucian Colleague

28 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ellucian Colleague	Score7.4 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A

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Ellucian Colleague

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Pricing Offerings
Ellucian Colleague
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	Ellucian Colleague
Considered Both Products	Ellucian Verified User Chose Ellucian Colleague While Ellucian Colleague does not provide the suite of resources of a Blackbaud model CRM, it still provides excellent value as a student CRM for the university. Ultimately, the university selected Ellucian Colleague as the CRM of choice due to its ease of use with our data and … Incentivized Helpful? Florante Roa Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations in Information Technology at College of the Desert (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Ellucian Colleague 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ellucian Colleague 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ellucian Colleague Ellucian Colleague has been in use at my institution for over 20 years. We have recently reevaluated the solution and, from a financial perspective, it was our decision to stick with it for the future as well. We have realigned our budget working with Ellucian and partnering … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Swan DBA in Information Technology at Indiana Wesleyan University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Ellucian Colleague We originally started on Jenzabar Cars platform and then evaluated PeopleSoft and SCT Banner. Colleague won out on cost compared to PeopleSoft and features over Banner. We noticed that PeopleSoft had a better technical underpinning with a greater integration with workflow. Incentivized Helpful? Becky Lambert Dean of Academic Services and Assistant Professor of Higher Education at John Brown University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Ellucian Colleague Colleague Student is much more user-friendly in my opinion for both back-end users like myself and for our students. We have found that our students who were here in our transition to Colleague Student raved about how much easier this system was to use for registration and … Incentivized Helpful? Rodney Parks University Registrar and Special Assistant to the Provost at Elon University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Ellucian Colleague Workday's cloud based system has more flexibility than Colleague Student. While it seems Ellucian is responding with developmental efforts, the company waited too long to begin the process. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ellucian Colleague Best way to keep all student data in one place and seeing how information is being kept consisted. Overall, it is helpful for us advisors to be able to keep track of things that our files wouldn't be able to note since there is a lot of information on there, including … Incentivized Helpful? Alicia Meyer Resident Director at Southwest Baptist University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Ellucian Colleague I did not use Jenzabar as extensively as Colleague, but they perform similar functions for student information tracking. I think Colleague is more appropriate for use across campus, as its student billing and scheduling options exceed Jenzabar. Jenzabar, however, offers better … Incentivized Helpful? Jamie Scott Senior Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at Oklahoma Christian University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Ellucian Colleague I have not personally used any other SMS systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ellucian Colleague We were previously on PowerCampus for 10 years before migrating to Colleague. We had just outgrown the capabilities of PowerCampus and needed a more integrated product that we didn't need to bolt on other applications. CampusManagement's product wasn't ready for production at … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Ellucian Colleague Ellucian Colleague offers exceptional value for the money compared to the pricier options in Blackbaud's suite of products. Ellucian Colleague stacks up well against Blackbaud and other CRMs in terms of its value for the money, ease of use, and customer service. Overall, … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Ellucian Colleague

Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Ellucian Colleague
Feature	Ellucian Colleague 7.8 3 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology	7.03 Ratings
Online Registration Management	8.02 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting	7.02 Ratings
Roster Management	8.02 Ratings
Platform Customization	8.03 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service	8.02 Ratings
Student Data Security	8.03 Ratings
Community Support	7.02 Ratings
Class Scheduling	8.03 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting	8.03 Ratings
Compliance Support	8.03 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application	8.02 Ratings

User Ratings
	Ellucian Colleague
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (12 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)