Ellucian Student (powered by Banner and Colleague)

Ellucian is a higher education technology provider based in Reston, Virginia, working with about 3,000 customers in 50 countries and serving more than 21 million students. Its AI-powered platform covers the student lifecycle from recruitment, enrolment and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising and alumni engagement, and is used by more than 2,000 institutions on its SaaS platform.

Ellucian Student, introduced in April 2025, is a SaaS-native student information system built on the company's Banner and Colleague products. It covers the learner journey from admissions through lifelong learning, including enrolment, financial aid, academic records and degree planning, with automation and AI tools and a prescriptive implementation model. It sits in a SaaS ERP suite with Ellucian HCM, Ellucian Finance, CRM, reporting and analytics, and the Ellucian Journey platform for continuing education. Customers range from Monash University to Zamorano in Honduras.

• Student information system: admissions, enrolment, academic records and degree planning in one SaaS product.
• Financial aid: tools for aid processing within the student lifecycle.
• AI and automation: AI-powered support for enrolment, aid, planning and upskilling.
• SaaS ERP suite: Ellucian HCM and Ellucian Finance on the same platform.
• Reporting and analytics: institution-wide insights from integrated student data.
• Ellucian Journey: AI course recommendations, skills mapping and an automated skills ontology for continuing education.

An international university branch campus in Vietnam could align its SIS with its parent university's cloud platform. A private university group could run admissions, tuition, scholarships and degree audits on one SaaS system. A university's continuing education centre could use AI course recommendations to market short courses to working adults.

Unifies admissions, enrolment, financial aid and academic records in one SaaS SIS instead of separate legacy systems. Uses automation and AI to speed up enrolment, aid processing and degree planning. Moves infrastructure management to the vendor's cloud. Connects to HCM, finance and analytics in the same suite for institution-wide reporting.

Universities worldwide are replacing on-premise student systems with SaaS platforms and adding AI for advising, enrolment and skills-based lifelong learning. In Southeast Asia, multi-campus and international universities such as Monash's Malaysian and Indonesian campuses are standardising on cloud SIS, and Vietnamese universities moving towards autonomy face similar needs.

Press releases are datelined Reston, Virginia. About 3,000 customers in 50 countries, more than 21 million students and a user community of 45,000+. Monash University selected Banner SaaS in 2023 for campuses in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, India and Italy. Ellucian Live 2025 was held in Orlando.