Case Study: Rush University improves degree planning and data accuracy with Ellucian Colleague

Streamlining Degree Progress for Students and Staff

Rush University, a private healthcare education institution in Chicago, needed a better way to track student progress across four colleges. Its College of Nursing was relying on a third-party database and manual degree auditing, which led to inconsistent data, inefficient reporting, duplicated work for staff, and a risk of students missing graduation requirements or extending time to completion.

Ellucian helped Rush University implement Ellucian Colleague’s Student Planning module, with Degree Works later added to modernize degree auditing. Ellucian’s solution improved data consistency, streamlined degree planning and reporting, reduced report generation time by 25%, cut degree-award processing from three weeks to less than three days, saved program coordinators an average of 50 to 75 hours per month, and eliminated an estimated $12,000 to $24,000 in annual tuition revenue loss. Rush also estimated $50,000 in savings by avoiding a new standalone system.

Rush University