HighPoint Degree Planner vs Slate

HighPoint Degree Planner helps students arrange graduation requirements across academic terms and map a route to graduation. It shows courses students should take and lets them place courses into terms. What-if planning lets students consider changes such as credit load, major, or study abroad and evaluate their effect on the plan. At the University of Pittsburgh, plans can be generated and refreshed using academic progress, degree requirements, prerequisites, and typical course offering semesters. A dashboard displays courses taken, remaining requirements, and recommended sequences. HighPoint says planning stays in sync with audits and scheduling, and its products are designed to reside inside PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. The planner uses students’ PeopleSoft requirements; HighPoint describes its in-PeopleSoft approach as requiring no integrations and leaving institutions in control of their data. Advisors can use plans to spot students who may need help staying on track. The University of Pittsburgh describes the planner as preparation for advising, not a substitute for individual advisor help. It runs on the web, with pricing on request.

Slate is a cloud-based information management system and higher education CRM for admissions and enrollment, student success, and advancement operations. Admissions teams can manage applications, reading, decisions, texting, events, and data integrations. Student Success includes forms, queries, appointments, communications, portals, case workflows, and campus-system integrations. Slate for Advancement combines donor management, alumni relations, event management, communications, and automations with real-time data insights. Native capabilities include surveys, document management, payment processing, SMS, chatbots, portals, and microsites. Institutions can connect systems through scheduled web services, batched file transfers, or the API; listed integrations include Common App, Banner, PeopleSoft, and OnBase. Mobile-ready interfaces support iOS and Android. The maker says data is encrypted at rest and in transit, supports multifactor authentication and institutional single sign-on, and stores each institution in its own private database. Admissions pricing is based on annual application volume, starting at $30,000 a year for fewer than 1,500 applications. Advancement pricing starts at $50,000 a year for fewer than 2,500 active full-time undergraduate enrollment. Existing database use for Student Success has no additional cost; a separate Student Success license is $30,000 a year.