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What is Higher Education Software?
Higher education software refers to tools and platforms designed to support the unique needs of educational institutions such as universities, colleges, and research organizations. These solutions help manage various aspects of academic and administrative operations, including student enrollment, course management, grading, communication, and campus facilities. Features typically include Learning Management Systems (LMS) for delivering courses, Student Information Systems (SIS) for tracking student records, and tools for managing finances, scheduling, and resource allocation. Higher education software can also provide tools for faculty collaboration, student engagement, and research management, enabling institutions to improve operational efficiency, enhance the learning experience, and ensure compliance with accreditation standards. Compare and read user reviews of the best Higher Education software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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OpenEduCat
OpenEduCat Inc.
At OpenEduCat, we provide a comprehensive open-source ERP tailored to meet the unique needs of educational institutions. Our software is designed to streamline and automate essential administrative tasks, enabling schools, colleges, and universities to manage their day-to-day operations with greater efficiency. From student information management, attendance tracking, and course scheduling to fee management and reporting, OpenEduCat covers every aspect of institutional administration in one unified platform. Built on an open-source framework, OpenEduCat offers flexibility and scalability to meet the evolving demands of modern education systems. Whether you're a small school or a large university, our ERP solution is designed to grow with you, providing customizable modules that can adapt to your specific needs. Our cloud-based platform also ensures secure, real-time access to critical data, empowering administrators, faculty, and students to make informed decisions.Starting Price: $79/month -
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EduSec
RudraSoftech
EduSec has a suite of selective modules specifically tailored to the requirements of the education industry. EduSec is engineered and designed considering a wide range of management functions within the university. Helps to manage multi-campus colleges and universities. With the use of EduSec, staff can be more accountable as it helps to know the performance of each department in just a few seconds. Almost all departments within the education industry can be synchronized and accessed. EduSec helps to assign the responsibilities to employee staff and can reduce time wastage and can speed up the administrative functions. Core functions like Online Admissions, Course Management, Fees Management, Timetable, Online Learning (LMS), Library Management, Examination with Result and Transcript generation, students’ attendance in the short entire range of university functions can be well performed by EduSec. -
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Academia ERP
Serosoft
Academia ERP is a higher education management system for Universities, Colleges, and Groups of Institutions. It automates and streamlines all the functioning of academic and administrative tasks. It enables educational institutions to provide a seamless student experience by empowering them with automation capabilities such as registering students in course offerings, documenting grades, attendance, transcripts, co-curricular activities information, projects, assessments, and other records. -
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DreamApply
DreamApply
The admissions system your whole organisation will love! Imagine if your application process was seamless, easy to manage, and fit your exact needs. With DreamApply it is easy. More Applications, Less Effort. DreamApply's admissions system features all you need for your marketing, recruitment, admissions, or scholarships. DreamApply delivers results for you. DreamApply is designed for educational institutions looking to increase student enrollment while reducing overall workload and efficiently managing their admission and marketing efforts.Starting Price: $225 per month -
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Collegix
Aptron
Collegix by Aptron is a higher education administration and management software solution. Delivering a truly integrated suite of applications and fully integrated modules, Collegix helps meet the management and administrative requirements of colleges, universities, seminaries, and other higher educational institutions. Core modules and features include student life management, recruiting and admissions, financial aid, human resources (HR), and finance, among others. Collēgix provides efficient office applications that streamline the student life cycle and optimize administrative workflows. and optimize departmental management to ensure student success. Collēgix gives you the ability to develop and track life-long giving relationships with alumni, parents, and friends of your institution. Collēgix offers a complete suite of human resource, procurement and accounting applications to support effective financial management and control when and where you need it. -
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Workday Student
Workday
Designed for the changing world of education. Education is changing radically. Workday Student helps you keep up. Our system is designed to seamlessly unite your whole institution and better serve both students and leaders. Built for student engagement. Meet students where they are, in the moments that matter. From alerts to email campaigns and more, we give you the tools to provide an experience unlike any other. Flexibility to adapt to change. Today’s students have different needs than students in the past. Our flexible foundation enables you to adapt your programs to your diverse and distributed student population. Insights to help you stay ahead. Put your data to work and quickly respond to change. Our student system is connected to finance, HR, and planning, giving you real-time insight into your campus. Efficiency to focus on student success. We streamline your processes and automate everything we can. -
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Jenzabar
Jenzabar
Jenzabar One is a flexible, cloud-ready platform exclusive to higher education. Our powerful suite of technology products and services provides your campus with mobile-friendly solutions to drive institutional and student success. Surpass your advancement goals by planning, building, strengthening, and managing relationships with constituents all through a single system. Jenzabar Fundraising helps schools identify prospective donors and engage them through modernized, personalized communications centered around the best solicitation programs. Jenzabar SONIS is a powerful yet cost-effective student information system that helps you improve efficiencies for all your on-the-go constituents. Designed specifically for smaller or specialized schools, Jenzabar SONIS empowers you to manage all aspects of your school’s administrative tasks online and provides integrated services for admissions, registration, grading, billing, course management, and other administrative functions. -
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EMPOWER
EMPOWER Student Information Systems
EMPOWER is a privately owned, US-based, award-winning, fully integrated student information system for higher education. It's module design connects students, faculty, staff and alumni, making your school easy to manage. Our SIS provides flexibility while connecting to a single, integrated database, allowing us to handle your most demanding needs. EMPOWER provides a comprehensive tool with modules, web portal, and extensive reporting. Our proven "no surprises" implementation and consulting will migrate your system quickly and professionally, providing excellent customer service, and an unbeatable ROI. Simply put, EMPOWER is Better software, Better Service and Better value! SIS school information systems should be able to support a wide variety of needs. EMPOWER SIS software seamlessly connects students, faculty, alumni, and staff through one unified platform. -
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Oracle Student Cloud
Oracle
Higher education is facing unprecedented disruption, and student expectations are evolving at a rate institutions are challenged to match. With these changes, a new kind of student is emerging. One whose expectations are shaped less by his or her generation and more by unique personal, academic, and professional aspirations. One size fits all will no longer fit the bill. Only agile, insightful, and proactive educational experiences will delight tomorrow's students. Success requires an entirely new kind of student information system (SIS). Oracle Student Cloud. Oracle Cloud is a solution built from the ground up to support lifelong learning from pre-collegiate through undergraduate, graduate, continuing education, and beyond, all on a single, extensible platform. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), consumer-market design elements, and collaboration tools, Oracle Student Cloud dramatically changes the student experience at every stage of the lifecycle, including financial aid. -
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IMSPrime
Redomud Services
IMSPrime is an 'SaaS' based educational ERP solution using innovative Cloud technology for high-end performance and unbreakable security. For any educational institution, IMSPrime is a complete application covering entire working processes. IMSPrme can be used by any educational institute of any size starting from kindergarten, secondary schools, colleges, universities, training institutes, groups of institutions or franchise schools. IMSPrime sole purpose is to make a system that can be Automated with various working functionality, Integrated with smart technology and hardware, Empower administration with real-time information and Connect all stakeholders. -
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PeopleAdmin
PowerSchool
The continual cycle of recruiting, hiring, onboarding, evaluating, developing, and managing faculty and staff is complex, time-consuming, and competitive. But colleges and universities can transform burdensome talent management processes into a strategic asset using PeopleAdmin’s robust, integrated, and interoperable talent management platform for higher education. With increased integrations, enhanced single-sign-on (SSO) capabilities, deeper configurability, and an ever-growing API framework, PeopleAdmin, a PowerSchool company, makes it easier for your staff to hire, onboard, and manage your talent.
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