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Q: Degree Auditing

Is my plan off track?Are the courses I'm taking helping me attain my degree on time?How does my progress toward completion if I change my major?

Q: Smart Planning & Registration

What courses best fit my work schedule?When will I graduate if I postpone a specific pre-requisite?What courses will speed up completion and minimize cost?

Degree Auditing

The Foundation for
On-Time Completion

Transform course, program, and academic data into detailed audits that focus on meeting degree requirements, not deciphering them. An accurate, actionable audit is the pre-requisite for any personalized, successful academic plan.

Discover the Facts

See a shared a view of progress that details each student's real-time academic progress, leaving nothing to guesswork.

Build Templated Plans

Structure academic pathways for programs with required — or highly standardized — course progression.

Keep Students Informed

Show real-time degree progress, front and center, on each student's personalized workspace.

Smart Planning

Smart Planning and Registration

Your GPS for Academic Planning

Create hyper-personalized academic plans that auto-adjust for any change — a new declaration, life event, time off, you name it. When the planner does the planning, students and advisors can dedicate themselves to executing it.

Foster Meaningful Dialogue

Free advisors to focus on what technology can't — advice-driven academic, career, and life conversations.

Simplify Registration

Let students register directly from their plans (according to your registration policies), reducing potential errors that can delay completion.

Create Plan Transparency

Illuminate how each plan update impacts course sequencing, financial cost, and anticipated completion date.

Advising

Advising

Make Every  Moment Count

Deliver on-time advising experiences that make students feel heard and motivated. A positive advisor-student relationship can be the true difference maker in a student's education journey — and beyond.

Increase Student Retention

Identify at-risk students through AI-powered alerts and predictive indicators that help advisors intervene proactively and early.

Gain Actionable Insights

Track advising trends across departments with dashboards that can help align institutional resources for maximum impact.

Streamline Case Management

Automate standard, routine advising tasks to safeguard time for more personal student interactions.

Credential Discovery

Find Students 
More Credentials

Uncover credentials students have earned or nearly completed, unbeknownst to them. Real-time credential analysis compares completed coursework to all available degree and certificate programs, declared or not.

Motivate Completion

Identify programs that at-risk students might be closer to completing, even if outside their declared major.

Re-Enroll Stop-Outs

Find unenrolled students who are eligible to gradate today — or need very few credits to reach the finish line.

Boost Funding

Increase performance-based funding opportunities by awarding more credentials to more deserving students.

Transfer Credit, Simplified

Recognize transfer credit more efficiently than ever — to inform students how their existing credits apply, before they apply.

Next-Gen 'What If' Analysis

Go beyond highlighting requirements — automatically create a full course plan, complete with views of cost and timeline.

Course Demand Analysis

Optimize course scheduling and seats to offer the right courses, in the right sequence, at the right time.

Advising Rules Engine

Incorporate advisor-defined rules into plans — like blocking Chemistry 210 and 220 in the same term, for historical workload and stress reasons.

Tailored Communications

Prompt Microsoft Copilot to help personalize messages with information you've already gathered from your student relationships.

Degree Auditing

Is my plan off track?

Are the courses I'm taking helping me attain my degree on time?

How does my progress toward completion if I change my major?

Smart Planning & Registration

What courses best fit my work schedule?

When will I graduate if I postpone a specific pre-requisite?

What courses will speed up completion and minimize cost?

Credential Discovery

Which students have already met the requirements for any undeclared program?

Which academic programs — declared or not — are students closest to completing?

Which stop-outs are less than six credits from completion?

“Degree Works has allowed us to become more efficient, to better serve that student, to make sure that we’re giving them very clear direction.”

Adam Breerwood

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President

“Degree audit and planning tools help us streamline registrar operations. When students and parents feel things run flawlessly, it elevates the experience — and that's what sets us apart.”

Mike Mathews

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Vice President for Global Learning and Innovation

“Giving students and advisors the ability to quickly audit for the pathways is invaluable.”

Christine Holbrook

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Registrar

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“I’d like to take a very slow and expensive route to completion,” said no student, ever. Yet just 41% of 4-year students and 30% of 2-year students complete on time. This stops now.