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Workday Student

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in
4.4
Market Presence: Higher Education Student Information System Software as a Service (Transitioning to Higher Education SaaS Student Information Systems), Higher Education Catalog and Curriculum Management Solutions

Overview

Product Information on Workday Student

Updated 8th August 2025

What is Workday Student?

Workday Student elevates student experience and empowers staff with responsible, AI-powered agility and insights. The solution guides learners by helping them find and stay on their educational pathway, seamlessly surfacing real-time information about their courses, their finances, and their path to graduation. The cloud-based solution includes student recruitment and admissions, curriculum management, student record and enrollment management, and financial aid and tuition management. As part of the Workday platform, the solution provides an intuitive user experience for the campus community across all of their roles. For example, students register for classes in the same system they use to enter the hours worked for their campus job, and faculty enter grades in the same system they use to view financial information about their grants or select their employee benefits.

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Overall experience with Workday Student

ASSOCIATE VP, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Workday Student Information System Working Well for Liberal Arts College”

5.0
Oct 30, 2025
This was an enhancement to the student experience compared to legacy technology, with registration, waitlisting, financial aid, degree audit, and student success information all in one place now, along with student worker payroll and employment information.
Assistant professor
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Exploring Workday Student's Impact on School's Academic Programmes and Data Management”

3.0
Feb 9, 2025
Workday Student has core student management capabilities and cloud benefits but its integration problems cause significant issues. Our ability to base choices on data is limited because important systems cannot exchange information smoothly.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th October 2025

Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by organizations around the world and across industries.

Company Details

Updated 13th October 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2005
Head office location
Pleasanton, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://www.workday.com

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Performance of Workday Student Across Market Features

Workday Student Likes & Dislikes

Like

Student self-service, Faculty, Dean & Department Chair dashboards, system stability, 2x a year upgrades and all schools using the same line of code

Like

The system lets us make detailed changes to our academic programmes which matches our school's needs. The system generates useful details about student populations and results from course assessments.

Like

What I like the most about the product is how it guides students in finding information about the courses in real time. For students that also work on campus, the platform helps them enter hours worked on campus as well as grades obtained for the courses. I can also use the platform to view financial information about grants and benefits.

Dislike

New Ideation Hub for customer input, has Artificial Intelligence behind it, but customers lack visibility to where their idea is in the pipeline and what ideas other customers have submitted. We believe more improvements are coming on this.

Dislike

The current platform has serious problems transferring data correctly between Workday Student and older external systems. Different systems produce separate data stores that need to be manually checked and matched between them.

Dislike

Sometimes the ability to base choices on data is limited because important systems cannot exchange information smoothly. There are issues with transferring data correctly between Workday Student and other legacy systems.

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Workday Student Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(18 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
39%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
11%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.0

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.2

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  • ASSOCIATE VP, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Workday Student Information System Working Well for Liberal Arts College

    5.0
    Oct 30, 2025
    This was an enhancement to the student experience compared to legacy technology, with registration, waitlisting, financial aid, degree audit, and student success information all in one place now, along with student worker payroll and employment information.
  • OPERATIONS MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Platform Offers Clear Task Notifications But Navigation and Data Transfer Are Challenging

    4.0
    Sep 23, 2025
    Overall, the platform does a really good job at including clear action items and notifications for tasks. This is really useful when reporting on class standing assignment capabilities. Sometimes the user interface is not very intuitive and there are some navigation difficulties which makes it a little challenging to get the information needed.
  • Director of IT
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Workday Student - A strong, integrated student lifecycle platform with some gaps to fill

    5.0
    Dec 4, 2025
    Workday is very receptive to feedback and input from its higher education users, and is excellent about soliciting feedback through user groups and design groups.
  • AVP - STUDENT SYSTEMS AND UNIVERSITY REG
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Paper curriculum tracking to full automation with future term planning.

    5.0
    Dec 8, 2025
    There is a lot of work involved with implementing, but it is worth it. Our faculty, staff, and students benefit from the curriculum tracking.
  • Director of IT
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Automatic Semi-Annual Updates and Data Tools Support Higher Education Needs

    4.0
    Nov 29, 2025
    Overall good. Very responsive to our needs in the higher ed industry which can be very different from the business world.
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