Ellucian PowerCampus Financial Aid is a customizable system for automating financial aid processing at colleges and universities. It uses College Board PowerFAIDS to help staff track applications, maintain student records, calculate budgets, analyze need, and prepare individual or batch award packages. The system can process and disburse funds, handle federal data, and generate financial aid messages and customized reports. Compliance support includes processing ISIR and College Board CSSProfile data, FISAP reporting, Pell Schedule updates, and NSLDS transfer monitoring; Ellucian also lists PowerCampus support for 1098-T tuition statement reporting. Students can use the companion PowerFAIDS Net Partner portal to update profiles, respond to awards, and review application status, messages, awards, and aid information. PowerCampus provides web-enabled access on a Microsoft platform and is available for cloud deployment. Ellucian describes it as intended for small to mid-sized colleges and universities. Pricing is available on request. Ellucian says its cloud services hold ISO 27001:2022 certification and customer security documentation includes SOC reports, while describing cloud security as a shared responsibility with customers.
Who it is for
It suits small to mid-sized colleges and universities seeking to automate financial aid work for staff and provide students with a companion self-service portal.
What is good
- Tracks applications and maintains student records.
- Supports individual and batch award packaging.
- Students can review status, awards, and messages in Net Partner.
- Includes federal aid compliance support.
- Cloud deployment is listed.
What to know first
- Pricing is available only on request.
- Cloud security is described as a shared responsibility with customers.
- Uses College Board PowerFAIDS.
Verdict
PowerCampus Financial Aid covers aid processing, compliance tasks, and student self-service through a companion portal. Institutions will need to request pricing and account for their role in shared cloud security responsibilities.
Ellucian PowerCampus Financial Aid plans and pricing
All plansCompared on course registration software
- Deployment
- cloud
- Aid program coverage
- both
- Document collection
- Yes
- Award letter delivery
- Yes
- Compliance reporting
- Yes
- API access
- Yes
- Packaging workflows
- Yes
