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

Ryan S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

I use this software every day for my accounting job at a major Midwest university.

This software has allowed me to be very efficient with my work as I am able to identify any accounting issues that may arise. Additionally, the system makes it very easy to look at prior fiscal years, which is a very large benefit when our auditors are asking for that information.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software, and the newest update, has made accounting a breeze. The financial system allows me to easily see where any reconciling item may be, and allows me reference codes so I may gather further detail. The new capability of using Chrome is a great feature as well because our entire organization is comfortable with the format.

Cons:

My only con would be that on some screens I am not able to copy certain data, which requires me to manually input the data. This is a small complaint because it is minimal amounts of typing.

Georgiana C.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Banner Finance and related Ellucian products

Ellucian is a robust computer system. Data does not get lost unexpectedly. There are exception reports that allow us to keep the financial records in balance and control reports that allow us to keep the subsidiary ledgers in agreement with the control accounts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Implementing software systems is difficult but we had some excellent trainers when we went live with Banner Finance. The Ellucian support is very comprehensive. The various modules interface with Finance which eliminates duplicate data entry. And the current Banner product can be accessed from anywhere.

Cons:

The length of the fields in Banner 9 data entry pages do not correspond to the data being entered. I shouldn't have to scroll to see what I have typed into a single field. There are often huge spaces but only a limited number of characters are accepted and the rest are truncated.

Reasons for choosing Ellucian Student

It was the best alternative out there at the time. And, I believe it still is the best option. The Ellucian products have expanded and grown over time.

Reasons for switching to Ellucian Student

The old programs were being phased out.

Joseph K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

Tries to do more than it can

The people at Ellucian are professional and direct. Their systems are . . . neither. Their Course Catalog system lacks keyword searching - a problem they acknowledge but cannot solve. Their SIS will not provide real-time updates to our LMS - a problem they acknowledge but cannot solve, despite the existence of 3rd party solutions that do the job.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It brought together many disparate systems, saving a tremendous amount of time.

Cons:

The company promises more than it can deliver, and attempts to integrate into multiple systems it should not.

Christian C.

Verified reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

The best platform to manage employees data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This program provides a centralized database for storing all employee-related information, including personal details, employment history, benefits, payroll information, and performance evaluations. This centralized approach streamlines HR processes and ensures data consistency across the institution.

Cons:

The initial investment and ongoing costs associated with Ellucian Banner, including licensing fees, implementation services, maintenance, and support, can be significant. The fact that they don't provide a free trial can play against the small businesses.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Banner Finance Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Amazing application with many features and modules. Banner Finance in particular is the industry leading software. Great community with exceptional services.

Cons:

Can be a little cumbersome and very little to no customization.

Carl E.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Candid Review from a Prior Fan

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ellucian Banner was a single solution for all our primary university functions. At the pricing secured in 2005, it remains an incredibly high value product in the growing list of software tools used by Utah State University.

Cons:

Ellucian's technology maturity has been an incredibly bumpy road. There have been incredible wins like the Banner 9 Student Registration system. There has also been some major let downs such as the Higher Education Data Model and nearly incomprehensible Ethos API offering. The loss of Ellucian Customer Service Managers who were assigned to look out for and advocate on behalf of customers has perhaps been the biggest loss experienced by any software by any vendor. The rate at which Ellucian has changed their online community platform has been mind boggling and the loss of access to previous efforts by customers on each platform is huge. Ideas has finally been replaced, but most customers are already of the mindset that it's just another tool where great recommendations for product enhancements go to die.

Reasons for choosing Ellucian Student

Ellucian (then SunGard HE) was first to address the needs specific needs of higher education at the time. It is no longer the only player and incessant pushes by Ellucian to adopt their SaaS offering is the greatest motivator to seriously consider other players in the space with significantly better Cloud offerings at similar if not cheaper rates.

Nick N.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Legacy Software That Has Not Been Modernized

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The only positive aspect of Banner is that it has a decent Student Information System.

Cons:

Nearly everything. To begin, the interface has not been modernized to current application standards. The term "lipstick on a pig" applies more to Banner than almost any other application I have ever come across.They do not seem to care about making the ERP side of their product function well. They have focused most on the SIS side, which is understandable, but the lack of functionality on the ERP side means it is basically useless for a modern campus. It is only working for half of the business.Their reporting functionality is poor and bordering on non-existent.For IT, this product is a nightmare. The releases are extremely difficult to install and maintain. The codebase is locked in 20 years in the past. They still use 8 character table names!!! The amount of technical debt means if you even wanted to deploy it as a SaaS product, it is nearly impossible, let alone trying to put it up in the cloud.In short, the company seems to be resting on their laurels as the market leader and they are falling far behind the competition.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Programmer / Helpdesk POV

ActionLine support has great subject matter experts(SME) and support. Cloud team seems to be lacking SMEs and doesn't seem to fully understand how all the modules relate.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I am allowed to see all the DB, and make custom items. Shell jobs, Oracle Packages, Oracle Jobs, and they are coming out with improved interface coding by moving to GraphQL and React JS.

Cons:

The cloud team is consistent about missing deadlines. Cloud support is very disorganized. Communication from cloud techs to customers is very poor, black box.

Reasons for choosing Ellucian Student

I didn't. This product was purchased back in the 1990's.

Andrew M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Was a great product, not so much anymore.

Banner used to be great. Good support and a quality product but now there seem to be defects with every release and the move to the cloud has been a disaster. Things that used to take a few days now take weeks and we are constantly having to align with Ellucians timetables instead of them adapting to ours, the customer.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It does most of the financial aid processes we need it to do.

Cons:

The customer service/support is awful. Maybe it's our cloud team but there are constant mistakes and delays to the point we are considering another SIS.