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Alternatives to Ellucian Degree Works

Ellucian Degree Works is built around institutional curriculum requirements. It turns course, program, and academic data into detailed degree audits and manageable plans, while what-if scenarios show how a major change or course withdrawal could alter completion. Students can view Degree Progress and Academic Plan cards, and institutions can map transfer credits, create sequenced academic pathways, and review reports on missing courses or students off plan. With Ellucian CRM Advise, advisors can receive alerts when students fall behind requirements, and the system can integrate with virtually any student information system.

  1. 01 FlightPath
    Free plan Open source Web · Windows · Linux · iOS
    8.7 Visit Specs
  2. 02 Civitas Advising

    The platform is intended for colleges and universities and their advising, faculty, and student-success teams.

    Web · iOS · Android · API
    8.4 Visit Specs
  3. 03 EAB Navigate360

    Navigate360 is for two-year and four-year public or private institutions, including community colleges, HBCUs, technical systems, and graduate and online programs.

    Web · iOS · Android · API
    8.3 Visit Specs
  4. 04 ConexED Retain

    Retain is aimed at higher education leaders and advisors, including CIOs and vice chancellors, as well as advisors supporting large student caseloads.

    Web
    7.6 Visit Specs
  5. 05 Slate

    Slate suits higher education institutions seeking one system for admissions, student success, or alumni and advancement operations.

    From $2,500/mo Web · iOS · Android · API
    7.6 Visit Specs
  6. 06 CoreCampus

    It suits community colleges, colleges, universities, and career, trade, vocational, or technical schools seeking one system for student records and campus operations.

    Web · API
    7.3 Visit Specs
  7. 07 Ellucian Advising

    Ellucian Advising is intended for faculty and advisors at higher education institutions.

    Web
    7.3 Visit Specs
  8. 08 Ellucian Smart Plan

    It suits institutions and their students and advisors needing degree planning, progress tracking, what-if scenarios, and registration from a plan.

    Web
    7.1 Visit Specs
  9. 09 Kuali Financials

    Kuali Financials is designed for colleges and universities managing higher education finance operations.

    Web · API
    7.1 Visit Specs
  10. 10 Starfish

    Starfish is intended for colleges, universities, and community colleges seeking to coordinate student success efforts and interventions.

    Web
    7.0 Visit Specs
  11. 11 Stellic

    Stellic is aimed at higher education institutions and the students, advisors, administrators, registrars, provosts, and CIOs they serve.

    Web · API
    7.0 Visit Specs
  12. 12 HighPoint Degree Planner

    It suits students planning courses toward graduation and advisors, registrars, or academic affairs staff supporting those plans.

    Web
    6.9 Visit Specs
  13. 13 AdviseU

    It suits universities that need coordinated degree auditing, planning, scheduling, and advising analytics.

    6.8 Visit Specs
  14. 14 Ellucian Banner Student

    Banner Student is intended for higher education institutions and the people managing student recruitment, records, advising, curriculum, aid, and success.

    Web
    6.8 Visit Specs
  15. 15 TracCloud

    It suits higher-education institutions managing advising, counseling, retention, and related student services.

    Web · API
    6.7 Visit Specs
  16. 16 Upswing Advising & Early Alerts

    This platform suits colleges and universities coordinating advising, coaching, tutoring, alerts, and student support.

    Web
    6.7 Visit Specs
  17. 17 Slate
    Web
    6.6 Visit Specs
  18. 18 uAchieve Planner

    It is intended for higher education institutions and students who need degree planning, course-demand analysis and classroom scheduling support.

    Web
    6.6 Visit Specs
  19. 19 HighPoint Advisee Relationship Management
    5.5 Visit Specs
  20. 20 HighPoint Degree Audit Wizard
    5.5 Visit Specs
  21. 21 Kuali Advisor

    Kuali Advisor suits colleges and universities needing web-based degree audits, planning, early alerts and a student planning portal.

    Web
    5.5 Visit Specs
  22. 22 Watermark Student Success & Engagement

    It suits institutions seeking degree planning, early alerts, intervention workflows, and a student planning portal.

    Web · iOS · Android
    5.5 Visit Specs

Choosing instead of Ellucian Degree Works

Readers may still seek another fit when they need stronger outreach and case coordination, a wider admissions or advancement CRM, different transfer and transcript tools, or a free option. Degree Works is paid with pricing on request, based on full-time equivalent students, and its operational documentation specifies an Intel x86 Linux server while warning that substituted environments may be unsupported. Compare each alternative’s planning, audit, alert, communication, integration, hosting, and platform choices against the campus workflow you need.

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