Name: Ellucian PowerCampus (Legacy)
Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Ellucian PowerCampus (Legacy)?

Ellucian PowerCampus is a software designed to support higher education institutions in managing academic, administrative, and student-related operations. The software provides features for student information management, registration, scheduling, grade processing, and financial aid administration. It facilitates the handling of admissions, records, billing, and reporting, supporting compliance with regulatory requirements. Ellucian PowerCampus aims to streamline processes across departments and improve efficiency in data management, communication, and workflow automation, helping educational organizations address challenges related to scalability, data accuracy, and integration of institutional functions within a centralized system.

Overall experience with Ellucian PowerCampus (Legacy)

Data Administrator

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

FAVORABLE

“PowerCampus: Ellucian's hidden, discarded gem”

4.0

Aug 22, 2024

I have worked with PowerCampus for 17 years now. The product meets our needs and the customer support has been great.

MANAGER OF IT SERVICES

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

CRITICAL

“Ellucian PowerCampus provides an adequate but challenging experience”

2.0

Aug 18, 2023

Ellucian PowerCampus has been our student information system at a small private college for several years. It has been challenging, as the desktop application is somewhat dated and has limited integration functionality.

About Company

Company Description

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 22 million students. With decades of experience and a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features higher education focused SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian’s innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides a community of practice contributing to institutional success and better student outcomes.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

1968

Head office location

Reston, United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

https://www.ellucian.com

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Ellucian PowerCampus (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

PowerCampus has a robust database design. The SQL Server database allows us to connect to our other onsite databases. The action rule feature is a powerful way to automate processes.

The database behind Ellucian PowerCampus is stable, despite it's structure. The user facing self service piece provides adequate functionality but presents customization issues.

Definitely the robust and easy to use product. It is a very specialize platform for universities and students management.

The user interface is a bit dated, and users will complain about it sometimes. Updates to Self Service require a larger breadth of technical knowledge. Ellucian is discontinuing this product and forcing the customers to a SaaS product that does not meet many of our needs.

Ellucian PowerCampus support provides very limited customization. Some aspects of the application have malfunctioned for years without being updated and addressed. The interface and operability are very dated and nearly obsolete.

In the beginning the lack of knowledge about it, since it has a lot a functionally that take some time to learn.

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Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Review Source

PowerCampus: Ellucian's hidden, discarded gem

Ellucian PowerCampus provides an adequate but challenging experience

Innovation & Quality Manger

ERP Student Platform

5.0

Nov 27, 2019

We use the platform as our student ERP system and in general terms is a flexible and powerful tool that we use in our everyday work.

Quality and Innovation Coordinator

Gets the job done !

Oct 3, 2019

PowerCampus is a very powerfull ERP, it fits our needs, but the interface for the user is not the best. Not pretty, but funtional

VP for Enrollment

<50M USD

Great product!

Apr 5, 2019

We have been very pleased with PowerCampus. We have worked hard to integrate this with other systems and use it to it's fullest.

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“PowerCampus: Ellucian's hidden, discarded gem”

“Ellucian PowerCampus provides an adequate but challenging experience”

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3.4

(10 Ratings)

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PowerCampus: Ellucian's hidden, discarded gem

Ellucian PowerCampus provides an adequate but challenging experience

ERP Student Platform

Gets the job done !

Great product!

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