Salesforce.org Education Cloud 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Salesforce.org Education Cloud

4.5

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Salesforce.org Education Cloud

Salesforce.org Education Cloud is a web-based CRM tool designed to help educational institutions manage recruitment, admissions, alumni relationships, and student success. The solution enables organizations to recruit the right students, engage them throughout the admissions process, and increase yield.

Teams using Salesforce.org Education Cloud can build relationships with graduates and help alumni stay connected with the institution. The platform allows supervisors to gain a real-time view of every student that helps deliver personalized experiences.

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Salesforce.org Education Cloud Pricing and Plans

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Salesforce.org Education Cloud Features

Popular features found in CRM
Calendar Management
Customer Journey Mapping
Email Management
Quotes/Estimates
Reporting/Analytics
Sales Pipeline Management
Segmentation
Task Management
Territory Management
Workflow Management
More features of Salesforce.org Education Cloud
Activity Dashboard
Admissions Management
Alumni Management
Application Management
Candidate Management
Communication Management
Contact Management
Contribution Tracking
CRM
Data Import/Export
Donor Management
Event Management
Faculty/Staff Management
For Alumni Associations
For Higher Education
Gradebook
Interaction Tracking
K-12
Lead Management
Learning Management
Member Directory
Membership Management
Payment Processing
Prospecting Tools
Registration Management
Reporting & Statistics
Student Information/Records
Student Management

Salesforce.org Education Cloud User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

50%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.6

Brice P.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

A game changer for higher ed recruiting and admissions

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We use a customized 3rd party version of Salesforce within the Higher Ed space - primarily for graduate recruiting and admissions, as well as marketing. Salesforce, while a sales platform, is versatile enough to allow us to completely customize our org the way we need it to function. We keep track of prospective applicants, run our info sessions as campaigns, and have even built our application using Salesforce site pages. The amount of flexibility and potential for integration is staggering. We are not full on the HEDA model, yet, but are moving in that direction. In addition, the products being rolled out for Higher Ed such as Adviser Link are very intriguing, and have us considering how we could roll out Salesforce to other units in our grad school.

Cons:

Salesforce in general is a huge platform, and can be a bit challenging for new staff to learn. In addition, because of the customization and natural deviation away from a sales-based mentality in order to get it to work for Higher Ed, Salesforce can quickly accumulate layers and layers of settings, permissions, etc.

Verified

Reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

The Premier CRM, Set up for Higher Ed

Our university used Salesforce to communicate with students and track those communications. The ability to create custom solutions to meet that needs of our admissions team makes Salesforce the easy choice.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Salesforce is a very powerful, customizable platform that allows companies and admins to set up an environment/instance that meets almost all of their communication and tracking needs. Salesforce for Higher Ed takes that powerful platform and directs its power towards recruiting and communicating with students. Creating and managing objects and views is very easy. Can be used to support and communicate with a student throughout their whole time interacting with the university (prospect to graduated alumnus). Customer service, as with all Salesforce products, is excellent and abundant documentation exists.

Cons:

The native reporting functionality in Salesforce is severely lacking. Outdated graphics, clunky reporting structure, and limitations make reporting in Salesforce less than ideal. If possible, I would recommend completing reporting in an external software that connects directly to your Salesforce data.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

A fantastic all-around system for tracking and managing any stage of the student lifecycle

Salesforce for Higher Ed has revolutionized our enrollment practices, and continues to open new avenues for data-collection, enrollment management and prospect engagement. It's become the hub that our entire enrollment services operation runs from. Our main problems tend to be a result of our own inexperience, or lack of knowledge in navigating the truly vast potential of Salesforce. The learning curve is real, but we've found it worth it to stick it out.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love the flexibility of Salesforce and the tailored customization of HEDA. It can do anything we need, and more. Salesforce also works hard to make sure every user has the training and documentation they need to make implementation successful.

Cons:

The sheer size and flexibility of Salesforce imposes an enormous learning curve on users. Without proper guidance, some functions will be left idle, or even misused. Other functions are theoretically possible, but difficult to implement without extensive training and/or expensive add-on products.

Reasons for switching to Salesforce.org Education Cloud

Salesforce had an almost infinitely higher ceiling in terms of functionality, flexibility, customization, access, and integration.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

A steep learning curve

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SalesForce gives the potential to be a company-wide CRM, rather than a CRM just for Admissions. This is something we would like to do and have started working toward. This is SalesForce's largest benefit over many other popular Higher Ed CRMs. There is a lot of potential here and I am pleased with a lot of the features, though there are some ones that feel basic that are missing.

Cons:

The data architecture is very convoluted and there is a very steep learning curve. It is clear when using SalesForce as a CRM tool for Higher Ed, that it was not built for Higher Ed. Despite that, it is still a strong solution. The other biggest pain point is responsiveness and slowness. The UI (ironically called Lightning) is incredibly slow which makes working on configurations very time-consuming for System Admins.

Thomas J.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Great Platform; Detailed Reporting Capabilities

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I appreciate how clear and easy the layout of everything is. Users are able to categorize each prospective student by the stage they're in. The reporting capabilities are incredibly helpful. Users can generate specific reports on basically anything regarding prospective students. Additionally, the platform has attractive visuals (graphs and more) to track each recruiter's progress.

Cons:

While the capabilities of the report-making are great, the initial creation of the report can be tricky. I sometimes feel like I'm writing algebraic equations when creating a new report. This isn't always the case, but training new hires how to create new reports is probably the most time-consuming part of our CRM training.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Salesforce CRM

We had a long learning curve because the axiom did not function at all with our SIS and data had to be manually implemented for 5 months. To be fair the implementation was also not handled the best. Once we got all the components speaking between the software program it is a powerful tool. Again the way it is arranged is better as a communication tool and trying to adapt it to applications for university is not as user friendly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the ability to track all the student data from inception as a prospect through to alumni and potential donor.

Cons:

How it is structured to be student centric. When using it to look up data as application, attachments etc it is cumbersome with many steps.

Michelle R.

Higher Education

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Easy to use

Ease and volume of work I am able to accomplish because the software is so productive to the work we do.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Once you learn how to use it~ it is so easy. Being able to access a student page and knowing all information is there for the student on his contact or application page helps with ease. Report building is relatively easy too.

Cons:

Usually when I get "tripped up" it is my own error. Knowing the language of the reports is where this usually happens.

Rachel P.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Brilliant tool for Higher Education Enrollment Teams!

I would recommend to those institutions that are interested in supporting high call & email volume enrollment advisors. I am not sure how much our system cost, but I would recommend as someone who uses the software daily.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The simplicity as a Enrollment Advisor was simple. Emails, tasks, calls, etc. were easy to execute. I know the setup was intense because we had a 2-week training session with SalesForce. I was much more effective with my daily outreach & followed up with the right prospects due to the software.

Cons:

I wished that my softphones & marketing would work better with the SalesForce database. It was just not a very effective all in one platform.

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