
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a suite of operations tools for both public and private higher education institutions with modules for enterprise resource planning (ERP), student information systems (SIS), constituent relationship management, and analytics. Designed specifically for higher education, Ellucian offers a range of solutions for a variety of educational needs. Ellucian Banner helps businesses to manage workflows and resources through an ERP system, Ellucian Colleague helps manage people and processes, Ellucian PowerCampus can be used to manage productivity in smaller institutions, Ellucian Quercus is an integrated digital student information system, and Ellucian Elevate can be used to manage operations for non-traditional courses.
In order to enhance the learning experience for both students and staff, the Ellucian suite of tools offers a range of features including online registration for students, attendance tracking, HR tools, financial aid management, communications tools, marketing, productivity analytics, and more. Ellucian’s CRM solutions such as Ellucian CRM Recruit and Ellucian Degree Works aid with engaging students, sharing information across departments, and providing students with the tools they need to plan their degree and track academic progress. Students, advisors, teachers, and institutions can all utilize Ellucian’s analytics products to gain insight from actionable insights, optimize efficiencies , identify trends, and more.
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Features
Total features of Ellucian: 60
- Activity Dashboard
- Admissions Management
- Alerts / Escalation
- Alerts/Notifications
- Alumni Management
- Applications Management
- Attendance Management
- Attendance Tracking
- Budget Control
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- CRM
- Candidate Management
- Class Scheduling
- Client Portal
- Colleges / Universities
- Communication Management
- Compliance Management
- Curriculum Management
- Customer Accounts
- Dashboard Creation
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- ERP
- Enrollments/Onboarding
- Event Calendar
- Faculty/Staff Management
- Financial Aid Management
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Forms Management
- Fundraising Management
- HR Management
- Higher Education
- Information Hub
- Learning Management
- Mobile App
- Online Calendar
- Online Payments
- Opportunity Management
- Payroll Management
- Prioritisation
- Procurement Management
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Notifications
- Records Management
- Recruitment Management
- Registration Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Resource Allocation & Planning
- Resource Management
- Scheduling
- Self Service Portal
- Student Information/Records
- Student Management
- Student Portal
- Talent Acquisition
- Task Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Visual Analytics
- Workflow Management
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- Industry: Higher Education
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Very stable software used by best higher ed. institutes
Reviewed on 19/6/2018
Ellucian Banner has provided our students and staff with a single application that manages aspects...
Ellucian Banner has provided our students and staff with a single application that manages aspects of course registration, work, bills, payments, grades, academic status.
Single sign on module was extremely helpful
Pros
It is a high-end software. Very stable. It integrates with the Microsoft LDAP. We have been using it for student and employee account management in term of course registration, tax forms, billing, salaries, student employment, grading, transcripts. It has very secure and solid database which is essential for the above mentioned matters.
Cons
Managing it requires training. It is not easy to administer. The price is very high compared to competing software in the higher education sector.

- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Ellucian for Community College
Reviewed on 14/11/2018
In the beginning I had to constantly keep my list of instructions handy if I wanted to enter a...
In the beginning I had to constantly keep my list of instructions handy if I wanted to enter a requisition for a purchase order, now its easy because I've done so many. Practice makes perfect!!!!
Pros
I liked how you can add features, customize it for the needs of the institution. I work for a small college and we don't need all the extra features that the larger colleges might implement.
Cons
It can be a little difficult to navigate for the beginner. Unless the user knows what they want there is a chance of getting lost. Ive been using the software for about 4 years now and i sometimes get lost or have to search for specific information. There is no menu with a list of options. So I guess what I'm saying is that it would be nice if it was more user friendly, easier to navigate.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
Not a good integrated solution
Reviewed on 21/11/2018
Negative, frankly. While helpful and polite, the team seems too inexperienced to be of much help....
Negative, frankly. While helpful and polite, the team seems too inexperienced to be of much help. In fact, Ellucian seems to cause most of the problems themselves through self-inflicted wounds. Each update or patch implements some new ‘improvement’ that breaks most workflows and processes built for the previous version. As such, the hope to get a slight improvement ends up costing weeks of manpower to fix everything else in the test environment over and over again.
Pros
Ideally, when functional, the functionality between Ellucian products can be helpful. We use Banner and eRecruit CRM. We expected the CRM/ERP integration to be the best selling point when choosing the CRM application.
Cons
Despite being the same company, the products are not as seemless as we felt it should be. It took well over a year of implementation of the eRecruit CRM to customize it to fit with the Banner ERP. Even then, we still find issues where things are not being converted from one to the other well. One example, on the CRM, GB is the country abrieviation for the UK (Great Britain), but in the ERP, this is shown as Gabon. I’ve wasted so much time programming and converting little things like this that I find it hard to believe they were released by the same company.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Banner by Ellucian
Reviewed on 16/10/2020
Overall working with Ellucian has been pleasant. My employer had the system long before I came...
Overall working with Ellucian has been pleasant. My employer had the system long before I came around so I can't speak to the implementation. Anytime I have needed to reach out to Ellucian with an issue or create a ticket they have been very helpful
Pros
Once you learn the terminology to search by, using the software becomes a lot easier. I frequently use reports for tracking open invoices and running payments. I like that the system is dynamic in that it updates quickly when another user is making a change.
Cons
It was a difficult system for me to learn and I couldn't find much training material for it. The reports you can run are basic and need a lot of manipulation to do any analytics.

- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Ellucian User for 15+ years
Reviewed on 30/8/2019
Pros
Since our college gained access to the web-based version of Ellucian (we call it Colleague at our school, too), it has been a lot easier to use.
Cons
I wish the help feature and other help documents were a little easier to follow. We used to have a gentleman who worked in Admissions & Records that would make PowerPoint presentations and quick guides to help out the Ellucian users.
Ellucian FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Ellucian.Q. What type of pricing plans does Ellucian offer?
Ellucian offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Free Trial: Not Available
Contact Ellucian for pricing information.
Q. What are the main features of Ellucian?
We do not have any information about Ellucian features
Q. Who are the typical users of Ellucian?
Ellucian has the following typical customers:
2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001+
Q. What languages does Ellucian support?
Ellucian supports the following languages:
English, Spanish
Q. Does Ellucian support mobile devices?
Ellucian supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Ellucian integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Ellucian has
Q. What level of support does Ellucian offer?
Ellucian offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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