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Workday Student Admissions

What Workday Student Admissions is
Workday Student Admissions is a cloud-based admissions product for institutions handling financial aid processes. It covers both aid program types and supports workflows for collecting documents, preparing packages, delivering award letters, and reporting on compliance. API access is also listed, allowing the product to be used as part of institutional systems and processes. The listed platforms are web, Android, and iOS. Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. The product is paid, and pricing is available on request. Its listed capabilities focus on admissions and aid work, from gathering required documents through packaging and award letter delivery, with compliance reporting included. Institutions considering it can assess whether its workflow functions and cloud deployment suit their admissions processes, then request pricing from Workday.
Who it suits
Workday Student Admissions is suited to institutions managing admissions-related financial aid workflows.
What it does well
- Covers both aid program types
- Supports document collection and packaging workflows
- Includes award letter delivery and compliance reporting
- Available on web, Android, and iOS
What to know first
- Pricing is available on request
- Paid product
Verdict
Workday Student Admissions brings several financial aid workflow functions together in a cloud product for web and mobile platforms. Institutions will need to request pricing to evaluate its cost.
Facts from Workday Student Admissions's own pages
- Admissions advising
- Staff can advise students from the start and track cohort progress using academic, aid, and extracurricular data. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API types
- The developer platform documents Graph, REST, and SOAP APIs with explorers, guides, and release notes. · developer.workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Applicant self-service hub
- Prospects and applicants receive one place to register for events, manage admissions and aid requirements, and view transfer evaluations. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Application decisions
- Applications can be collected, tracked, evaluated, and routed for faster admissions decisions. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company facts
- Workday lists its headquarters in Pleasanton, California, founding date March 2005, IPO in October 2012, and more than 20,800 employees. · newsroom.workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal identity
- Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Workday, Inc., a for-profit public company founded by Aneel Bhusri and David Duffield. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Developer documentation
- The open developer platform provides API explorers, documentation, an app catalog, and developer resources, but requires a Build account and development tenant. · developer.workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Workday Extend lets customers build, test, verify, release, and install custom apps in Workday tenants. · developer.workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Feature: Digital onboarding
- It provides digital onboarding tasks for incoming students. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Feature: Event management
- The admissions module provides management of recruitment and campus events. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Feature: Financial-aid tasks
- Admissions workflows include financial-aid action items for students. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Feature: Online application
- Institutions can configure online applications for information collected from applicants. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Feature: Prospect management
- It manages prospective-student and applicant records. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Feature: Transfer credits
- The product supports transfer-credit evaluations during admissions. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2005 · workday.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Pleasanton, California, United States · workday.com, 4 Oct 2026
- Implementation prerequisite
- Workday requires Human Capital Management before Student and recommends completing Financial Management before deploying Student. · doc.workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Workday lists student integrations, REST services, SOAP web services, and a student connectors catalog for data exchange. · doc.workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- ISO certifications
- Workday says its consolidated certificate covers ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701, with Student included in the stated scope. · workday.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: complexity
- Software Advice reviewers describe the interface as difficult, information-heavy, and sometimes unintuitive. · softwareadvice.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: legacy-system transfers
- Gartner Peer Insights reviewers report serious data-transfer problems between Workday Student and older external systems, requiring manual reconciliation. · gartner.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile and upgrades
- A G2 reviewer reports frequent upgrades causing downtime and substantially reduced mobile and tablet functionality. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: usability and speed
- G2 reviewers report clunky or confusing navigation, slow page loads, and dated interface design. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Mobile limitation
- Apple states that organizations control which mobile features are enabled and that not all Workday features are available on mobile. · apps.apple.com, 15 Oct 2026
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