AdmissionPros vs Starfish

AdmissionPros is a customizable web-based admissions CRM for public and private higher education and educational businesses. It manages prospect, applicant, and administrative information from recruitment through online applications, review, and admissions decisions. Institutions can send targeted email, text, and print communications and track delivery, open, bounce, and click rates. Modules cover scholarships, campus tours, events and travel, communication tracks, call campaigns, analytics, data imports, document management, and review and recommendation portals. Event tools manage invitees, RSVPs, attendees, and messages; prospects and applicants can view tour availability and schedule visits. Listed connections include The Common Application, Coalition Application, Banner, PeopleSoft, Jenzabar, TouchNet, PayPal, Tableau, payment providers, analytics systems, and campus single sign-on services such as LDAP, SAML, Shibboleth, DUO, and OneLogin. AdmissionPros says it customizes workflows and vendor integrations. Pricing is on request, with no upfront design, development, or implementation fees; the contract begins when the solution goes live. Servers run on Oracle Cloud and AWS.

Starfish is a web platform for colleges and universities to coordinate student success work, identify student needs, and support timely interventions. Early Alert, Scheduling, and Case Management help institutions identify and track students, engage them, and connect them with resources aligned to their needs. Operational Analytics gives faculty and staff data for proactive advising and helps connect institutional strategy to student-success approaches. Strategic Analytics supports action for student groups identified through risk factors and offers focused dashboards for reported data. Degree Planning helps students follow academic pathways, flags when they are off track, and gives institutions information to anticipate course demand. The platform supports cohort management and intervention throughout the student journey. EAB provides implementation help, staff training, update management, and change-management guidance through dedicated Strategic Leaders familiar with each partner institution. Partners can also join the nationwide Student Success Collaborative to share strategies with peer success leaders. EAB directs prospective customers to contact its team or request a demo; no price is stated. Its Trust Center lists TX-RAMP Level 2 certification and security topics including role-based access control, single sign-on support, and multi-factor authentication.