DegreeSight vs uAchieve Degree Audit

DegreeSight is a web-based credit transfer system for higher education, providing personalized transfer evaluations and degree pathways. Inbound lets students submit course information on an institution’s website and get self-service credit answers. Insight maps credits to degree pathways and shows progress toward completing a program; it also supports live chat and SMS about evaluations and program updates. DocSight extracts course data from transcripts, including in bulk. The platform matches courses against institutional articulation agreements, and decisions can feed into its workflow engine. Listed connections include Banner, Colleague, PeopleSoft, Jenzabar, Slate, Salesforce, and HubSpot. State systems can use direct SIS integration or secure CSV exchange. Insight lets students submit across more than 30 programs at once. DegreeSight says its data is hosted on Microsoft Azure and protected by SOC 2 controls; it also reports HECVAT completion, VPAT accessibility documentation, and FERPA-aligned handling of student records. SSO options include SAML, CAS, OAuth, Azure AD, and Okta. Pricing is available on request, with no published tiers.

uAchieve Degree Audit helps higher education institutions track academic progress and identify remaining graduation requirements. It handles multiple majors, minors, and degrees, plus waivers, test scores, non-course requirements, GPA calculations, and course reuse. Students and advisors can run what-if audits to see how completed courses apply to other programs. Staff have batch audit processing and an internal report-template library for analytics and early warnings. Real-time connections are available for Ellucian Banner and Colleague through Ethos, JDBC, and RESTful web services, and for PeopleSoft through JDBC or REST/JSON services. Java-based interfaces support homegrown SIS and systems including Jenzabar, Workday, and CAMS. Transfer Articulation stores equivalencies and statewide rules and converts transfer grades and credits to institutional values. Audits and transfer equivalencies can be provided through Transferology. Deployment is web or self-hosted. Hosted service availability is stated as 99.99% uptime, and subscriptions include 40 hours of support. Pricing is by subscription on request.