Students are the heartbeat of higher education and they deserve technology that drives student success.Learn how no one can match us »

Ellucian Colleague

Drive student success

Empower your institution with a unified user experience, actionable insights, and streamlined workflows.

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.
Best-in-class Student Information System (SIS)

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.

Re-allocate time to student education
Many students are dependent on financial aid but are overwhelmed by the process and in need of personalized support to make critical decisions.
Comply with federal regulations
Protecting students' rights, preventing fraud, and preserving access to funding opportunities are instrumental to your success.
Disburse aid promptly and accurately
Prompt disbursement ensures that students have access to the funds that make their education possible, allowing them to avoid disruptions and pursue their dreams.
Streamline award processing
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.

Adhere to regulatory and compliance requirements
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.
Support each user personally, based on the information they need
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.

Strengthen your HCM operations
A single system simplifies institutional complexities and offers a secure environment to support sensitive staff and faculty data.
Stay compliant
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).

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.

Re-allocate time to student education
Many students are dependent on financial aid but are overwhelmed by the process and in need of personalized support to make critical decisions.
Comply with federal regulations
Protecting students' rights, preventing fraud, and preserving access to funding opportunities are instrumental to your success.
Disburse aid promptly and accurately
Prompt disbursement ensures that students have access to the funds that make their education possible, allowing them to avoid disruptions and pursue their dreams.
Streamline award processing
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.

Adhere to regulatory and compliance requirements
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.
Support each user personally, based on the information they need
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.

Strengthen your HCM operations
A single system simplifies institutional complexities and offers a secure environment to support sensitive staff and faculty data.
Stay compliant
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).

We're in this together.

Let's discuss how Colleague can drive innovation and student outcomes across your institution.