Ellucian Colleague
Drive student success
Empower your institution with a unified user experience, actionable insights, and streamlined workflows.
Trusted to power 650+ colleges and universities
A complete solution with students at the center
Manage the student lifecycle from admissions to graduation. Support success with personalized experiences and centralized student information.
Reimagine the user experience
Keep everyone in your community up-to-date with personalized dashboards, featured news and action items, and automated workflows created with industry best practices in mind.
- High availability: 99.9% uptime improves operational and security continuity.
- Automated upgrades: Receive immediate access to any product update.
- Scalable when you need it: Your system automatically scales up and down based on usage.
- Open and interoperable: Integrate with Ellucian and third-party solutions seamlessly to meet your organization's objectives.
Deliver intuitive experiences for your students and the faculty and staff supporting them.
Easy-to-access hubs for financial aid, accounts balances, schedules, and grades mean less information hunting and faster resolution.
You can manage admissions, enrollment, course registration, and academic progress tracking all as one experience— ensuring accurate and up-to-date student records for your staff, faculty, and students.
Making student-first decisions requires actionable insights from every part of your campus operations.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Ellucian Experience compatibility
Integrates with Ellucian Experience to surface personalized content and jobs-to-be-done for each campus user.
Modernize your admissions process
Drive enrollment with Ellucian Apply's streamlined and personalized prospective student experience.
Validated integrations for higher education
Integrates with technology critical to your operations, from housing to learning management to payment processing.
Handle financial aid processes accurately and efficiently—regardless of the source or type of aid.
Many students are dependent on financial aid but are overwhelmed by the process and in need of personalized support to make critical decisions.
Protecting students' rights, preventing fraud, and preserving access to funding opportunities are instrumental to your success.
Prompt disbursement ensures that students have access to the funds that make their education possible, allowing them to avoid disruptions and pursue their dreams.
Your aid officers can define eligibility rules and criteria to rank and select applicants for managing one-time or recurring awards and loans.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Ellucian Experience compatibility
Integrates with Ellucian Experience to offer self-service student hubs for financial aid requirements and scholarship management.
Batch processing
Allows users to construct rules for exception-based aid processing, including selection and ranking, eligibility checking, need analysis, and awarding.
Quick actions
Enables queries for aid and scholarship program summaries—and generates disbursement and repayments schedules, fund balance reports, and more.
Manage your institution’s finances with improved reporting, activated data, and automated processes.
A unified financial solution allows for more effective resource allocation and fiscal responsibility.
Your data is available via an intuitive interface that always stays up to date, no matter what device you're using.
Regulatory reports for Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) are created automatically, saving finance staff time and ensuring the highest standard of data governance.
Staff members who don't specialize in finance can access user-friendly tools that explain budget balance and show available transactional spend.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Purchase requisition
Allows users to manage each stage of a requisition, from approval queue priority to buyer assignment to the associated purchase order.
Journal processing
Lets users process any type of journal voucher via a step-by-step prompt—whether for a budget, encumbrance, or actual transaction.
Efficient procurement processing
Simplify invoicing, billing, and payment. Streamline processes across campus to create efficiencies and decrease costs.
Manage every aspect of the employee experience, for the people who help make your institution successful every day.
A single system simplifies institutional complexities and offers a secure environment to support sensitive staff and faculty data.
Self-service functionality saves time otherwise spent information hunting.
Colleague facilitates IPEDS reporting and time tracking for Affordable Care Act compliance and seamless integration between payroll and financial aid for federal and college work study.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Ellucian Experience
Allows staff and faculty to view timesheets, request time off, view pay stubs, and more—all within their personalized dashboards.
Ellucian Insights
Empowers strategic leaders to understand human capital resources and budgets today—and to properly forecast future needs.
Ellucian Spend Management
Improves functionality around travel, expenses, and procurement (powered by Emburse Chrome River).
Student
Deliver intuitive experiences for your students and the faculty and staff supporting them.
Easy-to-access hubs for financial aid, accounts balances, schedules, and grades mean less information hunting and faster resolution.
You can manage admissions, enrollment, course registration, and academic progress tracking all as one experience— ensuring accurate and up-to-date student records for your staff, faculty, and students.
Making student-first decisions requires actionable insights from every part of your campus operations.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Ellucian Experience compatibility
Integrates with Ellucian Experience to surface personalized content and jobs-to-be-done for each campus user.
Modernize your admissions process
Drive enrollment with Ellucian Apply's streamlined and personalized prospective student experience.
Validated integrations for higher education
Integrates with technology critical to your operations, from housing to learning management to payment processing.
Financial Aid
Handle financial aid processes accurately and efficiently—regardless of the source or type of aid.
Many students are dependent on financial aid but are overwhelmed by the process and in need of personalized support to make critical decisions.
Protecting students' rights, preventing fraud, and preserving access to funding opportunities are instrumental to your success.
Prompt disbursement ensures that students have access to the funds that make their education possible, allowing them to avoid disruptions and pursue their dreams.
Your aid officers can define eligibility rules and criteria to rank and select applicants for managing one-time or recurring awards and loans.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Ellucian Experience compatibility
Integrates with Ellucian Experience to offer self-service student hubs for financial aid requirements and scholarship management.
Batch processing
Allows users to construct rules for exception-based aid processing, including selection and ranking, eligibility checking, need analysis, and awarding.
Quick actions
Enables queries for aid and scholarship program summaries—and generates disbursement and repayments schedules, fund balance reports, and more.
Finance
Manage your institution’s finances with improved reporting, activated data, and automated processes.
A unified financial solution allows for more effective resource allocation and fiscal responsibility.
Your data is available via an intuitive interface that always stays up to date, no matter what device you're using.
Regulatory reports for Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) are created automatically, saving finance staff time and ensuring the highest standard of data governance.
Staff members who don't specialize in finance can access user-friendly tools that explain budget balance and show available transactional spend.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Purchase requisition
Allows users to manage each stage of a requisition, from approval queue priority to buyer assignment to the associated purchase order.
Journal processing
Lets users process any type of journal voucher via a step-by-step prompt—whether for a budget, encumbrance, or actual transaction.
Efficient procurement processing
Simplify invoicing, billing, and payment. Streamline processes across campus to create efficiencies and decrease costs.
Human Resources
Manage every aspect of the employee experience, for the people who help make your institution successful every day.
A single system simplifies institutional complexities and offers a secure environment to support sensitive staff and faculty data.
Self-service functionality saves time otherwise spent information hunting.
Colleague facilitates IPEDS reporting and time tracking for Affordable Care Act compliance and seamless integration between payroll and financial aid for federal and college work study.
Realize the full potential of Colleague with technology capabilities designed for higher education.
Ellucian Experience
Allows staff and faculty to view timesheets, request time off, view pay stubs, and more—all within their personalized dashboards.
Ellucian Insights
Empowers strategic leaders to understand human capital resources and budgets today—and to properly forecast future needs.
Ellucian Spend Management
Improves functionality around travel, expenses, and procurement (powered by Emburse Chrome River).
The students like the self-service features. They like being able to look at things and move things around on their plan. They like that they have access to it at all times, and they like how they can control it.
Amanda Phillips
Dean of Counseling, College of the Desert
The live data eliminates frustration and wait times for the students while saving our staff time by helping them work smarter.
Stephanie Sigler
Director of Pathways Advising, Odessa College
Stay up to date with the information you need to succeed.
We're in this together.
Let's discuss how Colleague can drive innovation and student outcomes across your institution.
