Ellucian Smart Plan vs Stellic

Ellucian Smart Plan is a web-based academic planning and registration solution for institutions, students, and advisors. It analyzes academic history, program requirements, prerequisites, and institutional policies to create validated course plans. Real-time student information system data tracks progress and recalculates a completion route when circumstances change. Students can model changing majors, adding a minor, or adjusting course load, then see course sequences, completion timing, and cost implications. They can register directly from plans while institutional registration windows, prerequisites, and policies are applied. A dynamic rules engine manages sequencing, program requirements, and course relationships; multi-goal updates can combine goals such as a double major and minor. Historical institutional data can help tailor plans. Ellucian says Smart Plan integrates natively with Degree Works and Colleague Student Planning. The product page invites institutions to schedule a live demo and does not state a price, free plan, or free trial. Ellucian offers implementation, optimization, and training services.

Stellic is a student journey platform for higher education institutions, supporting academic planning through graduation. Its Progress package includes degree audits, pathways across programs or timelines, and an audit-aware planner for multi-year planning. Students and advisors can see progress toward requirements, including how changing programs affects them. Care supports advising with shared student profiles, notes, in-app messaging, early alerts, engagement signals, appointments, filters, and reports. Explore supports prospective student pathways and transfer rule management, with AI transcript analysis for transfer credit evaluation. The platform connects with student information systems, learning management systems, and other campus tools; Stellic says it works alongside existing student information systems rather than replacing them. Institutional partners can use REST APIs to retrieve and publish data through periodic or real-time integration mechanisms. API access requires a Personal Access Token requested from Stellic’s integration team, and institutions may need to provide IP addresses for whitelisting. Stellic describes the platform as SOC 2 certified and WCAG 2.2 AA accessible. The public pages direct institutions to request a demo and list pricing as on request.