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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ellucian Colleague

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AEllucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.N/A

    Jenzabar ONE

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJenzabar ONE is a complete management platform for higher ed featuring modules for student registration and advising, student life and events, human resources, fundraising and tuition, and also eLearning module with student portal and mobile app.N/A
    Pricing
    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
    Considered Both Products
    Ellucian
    Chose Ellucian Colleague
    Colleague Student is much more user-friendly in my opinion for both back-end users like myself and for our students. We have found that our students who were here in our transition to Colleague Student raved about how much easier this system was to use for registration and …
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    Chose Ellucian Colleague
    I did not use Jenzabar as extensively as Colleague, but they perform similar functions for student information tracking. I think Colleague is more appropriate for use across campus, as its student billing and scheduling options exceed Jenzabar. Jenzabar, however, offers better …
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    86%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Ellucian Colleague and Jenzabar ONE
    Feature
    Ellucian Colleague
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Jenzabar ONE
    7.1
    8 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.03 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Online Registration Management8.02 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting7.02 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Roster Management8.02 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Platform Customization8.03 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service8.02 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Student Data Security8.03 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Community Support7.02 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Class Scheduling8.03 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting8.03 Ratings2.26 Ratings
    Compliance Support8.03 Ratings5.27 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application8.02 Ratings3.82 Ratings
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    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ellucian ColleagueJenzabar ONE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ellucian
    Ellucian Colleague is wonderful at streamlining processes and unifying data related to students, finance, human resources, and financial aid. It continues to support and manage administrative needs, enhance student experiences, and improve operational efficiency across the University. Ellucian Colleague is less suited for quick data retrieval and comprehensive financial reporting. These functions could use some improvement to optimize the user experience.
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
    Jenzabar ONE is strongly suited for an all-in one solution for higher ed. The modern web-based platform make it efficient for end users. An institution that wants a full communication platform to connect with students, Jenzabar is the right product for your school. As with any product, development with Jenzabar One continues which is a good thing but also may cause some schools to want more features more quickly.
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    Pros
    Ellucian
    • Colleague Student allows us to integrate services across the university for students with staff in various departments able to see the information about a student that they need to serve the student well.
    • Colleague Student makes it easy to see our students current academic record as well as transfer courses (and information) and their past records here at the university. Our old system required a lot of homegrown connection points to be able to see all of this information. It was neither quick nor easy.
    • Colleague Student makes the registration process for our students much easier. Our old system was clunky and would often prevent students from registering for a class but not provide information for them about why. Colleague Student makes it easy for students to see if they are missing a pre-requisite, have a hold, etc., so they can know how to get their registration back on track.
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
    • Jenzabar ONE makes working within the system possible and secure using remote and WFH options.
    • Jenzabar ONE is adept at managing the central functions of the Registrar's Office.
    • Jenzabar ONE is capable and adequate for student accounts and billing.
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    Cons
    Ellucian
    • Develop API's that are vendor agnostic rather than selecting specific vendors (Clearinghouse, ImageNow).
    • Colleague tends to be to reactionary to the changing needs in higher education rather than developing the future.
    • Hound clients to pay extra for consulting (consultants are usually bad), rather than helping institutions to use the product. Seems to be the first thing help line personnel jump to rather than working with clients to figure out creative solutions.
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
    • the Help system does not always correlate to the current version, so updating that with each update would be very helpful
    • a method to test users' permission would be very helpful
    • it is sometimes tricky trying to figure out which functions to assign to users, so making that process more clear would be great
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    Usability
    Ellucian
    For decades, Ellucian Colleague has served the University as our primary student record-retention CRM. Its functionality has weathered many recent trends in CRM development and continues to produce the needed results for our constituency and the size of our university. We look forward to continuing to utilize Ellucian Colleague in the future.
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
    Jenzabar ONE is good at what it does. Given our discounting structure within the association of colleges and universities of which we are a member, the ROI on Jenzabar ONE beats the pants off anyone else's offerings. Switching horses mid-stream would be costly and difficult. Fortunately, Jenzabar ONE has the general capabilities we seek.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ellucian
    I did not use Jenzabar as extensively as Colleague, but they perform similar functions for student information tracking. I think Colleague is more appropriate for use across campus, as its student billing and scheduling options exceed Jenzabar. Jenzabar, however, offers better tools for use exclusively in student affairs. If an organization wants to track all student data, they should consider Colleague.
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
    Jenzabar ONE has 90% of the capabilities of of its competitors, and a price point significantly below those products. Both Banner and PeopleSoft provide capabilities that exceed what we need. Paying for those additional features is not cost effective. In short, Jenzabar ONE does nearly everything we need, and both Banner and PeopleSoft only offer extra capabilities we will not use.
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    Return on Investment
    Ellucian
    • By keeping student's academic work, financial aid, and accounts receivable information in one location we are able to report without the need for data aggregation.
    • Colleague's web applications allow the students themselves to perform tasks such as enrollment without assistance from staff members.
    • Using customized rules that we can set up in Colleague we can trigger events to happen as data is entered. This eliminates the need not only for someone to remember to perform an additional task, but it also saves the time of performing the actual task.
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    Jenzabar, Inc.
    • Implementing the new admissions portal has led to a 12% increase in enrollment as we were able to spend time directly working with students with how it automated previously manual tasks.
    • The ACH and credit card payment portal with self-selection of student payment plans has allowed the business office to collect 70% of what we used to send to collections.
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