Recruiting & Admissions
Attract, Engage, and Enroll the Right Students
From initial interest to final admission, Ellucian Recruiting & Admissions empowers your institution to engage prospective students early, simplify the application process, create cost transparency, and deliver a seamless admissions experience.
Dedicated Services for Colleges and Universities
boost in new student enrollment
Source: Olivet Nazarene University
increase in first-year enrollment
Source: Jacksonville State University
net price calculations match with offer letter
Source: Delaware Valley University
See How Institutions Are Succeeding
It takes a blend of strategy, timing, and connection to move students from curiosity to commitment. With Ellucian Recruiting & Admissions, your institution can proactively engage students earlier, tailor communications, clarify cost, and create a friction-free journey from inquiry to admit. These capabilities work together to optimize pipeline conversion, improve diversity, enhance yield, and elevate student experiences.
Reverse the process, invite students who fit your mission
You can engage students well before they apply by proactively offering admissions and providing them with peace of mind throughout their college journey. This enables institutions to incentivize academic and extracurricular performance and reward behaviors that align with your institution’s goals while driving diversity, access, and yield.
Micro-Scholarship Engine
Design tiered rewards for student milestones that are built into your pipeline.
Early Student Engagement
Establish one-to-one connections with students as early as 9th grade, long before application windows open.
Yield & Access Acceleration
Leverage student behavior data to convert engaged prospects into enrolled students and boost diversity.
Simplify the admissions application journey
Student application management offers a modern, purpose-built admissions application that provides a streamlined experience for prospective students while reducing friction and administrative burden.
Increase Application Completions
Deliver a secure experience with password-free, multi-factor authentication to remove barriers, reduce drop-offs, and boost completion rates.
Fraud Detection
Protect your institution with automated checks that flag suspicious or duplicate applications before they enter your system.
Boost Admissions Efficiency
Empower staff with tools to review faster, connect sooner, and manage every application efficiently from a single view.
Optimize Recruiting and Connect With Best-Fit Prospect
Automate decision-assignment, segment prospects using scoring criteria, and focus your outreach on students most likely to apply and enroll.
Prospect Scoring & Workflow
Prioritize efforts and automate assignments for maximum recruiting efficiency.
Multichannel Outreach
Engage via text, email, chat, and self-service, creating personalized student journeys.
Data-Driven Insights
Track pipeline metrics, conversion rates, and institutional performance to refine strategy.
Support International Students and Scholars End-to-End
Streamline international recruitment and enrollment processes by handling visas, immigration case tracking, and global applicant workflows in one system and enrich the global student experience by centralizing data, optimizing operations, and enabling staff to focus on strategic support.
Visa & Immigration Case Management
Track/enforce eligibility, deadlines, and regulatory requirements for international students.
Global Applicant Workflow
Support recruitment from overseas with tailored communication, admissions, and onboarding tools.
Advanced Reporting & Insights
Generate comprehensive analytics on international enrollment, citizenship, academic levels, and retention.
Why Institutions Choose Ellucian Recruiting & Admissions
Accelerate Admission Funnel
Convert high school interest into applicants more effectively with early engagement.
Eliminate Operational Bottlenecks
Automate application, transcript, net price calculations, and workflows to reduce staff overhead.
Drive Diversity & Access
Use transparent cost, micro-scholarships, personalized communications, and global outreach to improve access and yield.
Data-Driven Recruiting
Combine relationship management, analytics, and student behavior data to target, engage, and convert best-fit prospects.
Enhance Student Experience
Provide a unified, mobile-friendly, transparent journey from inquiry to admission, no matter where students are.
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Meet Students Where They Are
Personalize conversations and meet students where they are via text, email, social, or chat to improve engagement and response rates.
Equip Staff With Smart Tools
Track application performance in real time and optimize campaign strategies to stay agile, boost engagement, and reach enrollment goals.
Connect Prospects and Staff
Streamlined processes and automation free up staff time so they can focus on meaningful one-on-one outreach and building student connections.
Real Impact:
Universities Transforming Enrollment
"Our Community College 3.0 vision requires more than aspiration. It requires alignment, transparency, and shared accountability. Partnering with Ellucian has allowed us to embed our strategic plan directly into how we work. With Insights, our leaders and staff will be able to clearly see how their efforts connect to our institutional goals and use data in real time to guide decisions that support student success beyond completion."
“At JSU, we’re student-centered and focused on enrollment growth. With Ellucian Student Forms, we simplified financial aid and saw a 400% increase in verification completions — removing barriers and celebrating student success.”
“We used separate CRMs for graduate and undergraduate programs, creating a fragmented experience. Ellucian Recruit unified enrollment into one system, improving the student experience and driving measurable growth within a year.”
“One of the greatest benefits of Ellucian Student is that it works exactly as it should. It frees up our resources to focus on innovation, marketing, and student acquisition. We can now apply data science in creative ways — analyzing student habits and connecting those insights to grades, retention, and recruitment. That impact far outweighs the cost of implementing a new ERP or SIS.”
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