Ellucian Student 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Ellucian Student

3.7

(39)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Ellucian Student

Designed for higher educational institutes of all sizes, Ellucian Banner Finance is a cloud-based solution that helps accounting teams streamline financial processes across accounts payable, endowment management, sponsored research accounting, journal entries, and more from a centralized platform. The platform allows staff members to access relevant data in real-time to ensure compliance with policy guidelines, assess capital expenditures, and manage multiple revenue streams.

Ellucian Banner Finance lets accounting teams configure preferred funding elements, access spend analysis, view fiscal or multi-year financial activity, and monitor historical trend analysis via a built-in database. It enables employees to gain a comprehensive view of Federal Financial Reports (FFRs), grants ledger, and other relevant data by utilizing the research and grants module. Additionally, financial teams can use the graphic dashboard to process, search, view, and manage different types of journal vouchers including, budgets, transactions, and encumbrances.

Ellucian Banner Finance helps organizations create and allocate budgets whilst managing funds, endowments, assets, and grants. Pricing is availab...

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Ellucian Student Pricing and Plans

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Ellucian Student Features

Popular features found in Financial Management
Budgeting/Forecasting
Cash Management
Multi-Currency
Project Management
Revenue Recognition
Tax Management
More features of Ellucian Student
Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
API
Bank Reconciliation
Billing & Invoicing
Consolidation/Roll-Up
Dashboard Creation
Data Import/Export
Financial Aid Management
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
Financial Reporting
Fixed Asset Management
For Higher Education
Fund Accounting
General Ledger
Grant Management
Planning Tools
Purchase Order Management
Purchasing & Receiving
Real-Time Data

Ellucian Student User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.7

Ratings Breakdown

23%

36%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.1

Value for money

3.1

Customer support

3.2

Functionality

3.6

A. Jeffrey R.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Banner Finance work well

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Integration with other modules. Full suite ERP solution.

Cons:

Student is Banner's strongest module -- Finance is not.

Tara F.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Financial Aid User

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ellucian Banner is the platform that I have used at my previous and current university, while working in financial aid. I have only ever used Banner so I do not have another platform to compare it to. This system has been very beneficial in automating the processing for financial aid. I have used this program for over 7 years. All student, and employee, related information is stored in one location and necessary processing can be handled with Banner. Financially and academic based, this program has helped be the "one-stop-shop" for all information for our large student base. Banner 9 has made the screens easier to use for new users (due to acronyms) but Banner 8 was the most efficient program I have ran.

Cons:

Banner 9 seems to have a lag between screens that has not yet been improved. Being web-based, it has really slowed down or processing. There are glitches that are quickly fixed but there seems to be more issues with this new Banner program than what we ever dealt with while using Banner 8.

Jonathan N.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

IBM for Higher Education

It is our system of record, the main database tied to everything on campus.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

ERP software is never quick or easy to implement but most people in higher education use this package so it is very well known in the industry.

Cons:

It is old and has the baggage of any old system and lots of training is needed for employees new to it.

Reasons for choosing Ellucian Student

Better features, better support, and better accepted by all decision-makers at the time (late 90s). Like IBM or HP, nobody gets fired for choosing the big, old standard.

Reasons for switching to Ellucian Student

Y2K and many improved capabilities.

Nicole C.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

Degree evaluation

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Students degree evaluation - really my comment is to short. lol... I like pretty much everything with Ellucian

Cons:

Our help guide isn't up to date with the new verse so sometimes going to the guide to figure out what you did wrong and why something will not save/update is a pain. But, I can usually figure out what I did.

Reasons for choosing Ellucian Student

I don't know

Justin N.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Banner Finance - A Highly Functional Financial Tool for Higher Education

Our overall experience with Banner Finance has been very positive. We are able to generate quarterly and annual financial reports that our auditors and finance staff can work with and drill down on to get detail behind the figures.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Banner Finance offers a lot of great functionality but what I liked most about the finance platform was its ability to interface between six campuses with Banner Student to communicate tuition payments and student receivables with our system financial system and update all as though they were one.

Cons:

Because this financial platform is so big, when we have experienced problems with Banner, it has caused debilitating shutdowns that grind our finance and accoutning system to a halt and users are on standby until we can get traffic started again.

Demetris K.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Banner Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I was not involved in that process or I guess I'm not sure what I like best. Well, the S.O.S. page is nice and it's easier to perform journal vouchers usinig S.O.S.

Cons:

The fixed asset module is difficult to navigate and impute assets especially the accessories or parts that are less than $5K. There are too many steps involved to get these items capitalized and attached to the main asset.

Kala D.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Decent user experience

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The updates that came with Banner 9 have made it much more user-friendly, although there's still a long way to go in this department. It has become much easier to search for various Banner forms, a feature that was lacking in previous iterations of Banner. The overall look is sleeker than the previous version and navigation within the forms has been made somewhat simpler with the reorganization of the page and inclusion of tool dropdowns.

Cons:

Occasional glitches disrupt the daily workflow. Many processes are still not as intuitive as they could be, especially when it comes to entering multiple invoices with separate FOAPAL strings. There is some difficulty getting Banner to talk to other software programs. While exporting data is easier than in previous versions of Banner, some print screen attempts go better than others.

Tasneem M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Best administrative software application to store data and manage users.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

1. User friendly. 2. Easy to execute and navigate the dashboard. 3. Excellent student database management system. 4. Grade entry made easy and customized as per the specifications. 5. Ellucian Banner faculty has features like students attendance tracking, class list approval, academic profile and detailed schedule making it easy to follow-up under one roof. 6. All data is secure.

Cons:

1. Report customization is difficult. 2. Restricted capabilities.

Rhonda T.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2023

Easy to Use for Budgeting

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The college uses Ellucian Banner for all kinds of things. We use it to keep track of employee records. My main use is budget and creating purchase requisitions. I also use it with WebTMA to integrate charges from the work orders to charge the other departments.

Cons:

My only issue with Ellucian banner is permissions are very restrictive so you have to be granted permission to a lot of different screens.

Stacey B.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2023

Good product