Ellucian PowerCampus Financial Aid is a customizable system for automating financial aid work at colleges and universities. It uses College Board PowerFAIDS and helps staff track applications, maintain student records, calculate budgets, analyze need, and prepare individual or batch award packages. The system can process and disburse funds and handle federal data. Compliance support includes processing ISIR and CSSProfile data, FISAP reporting, Pell Schedule updates, and NSLDS transfer monitoring; Ellucian also lists PowerCampus support for 1098-T tuition statement reporting. Staff can generate financial aid emails and letters and create customized reports. Students can use the companion PowerFAIDS Net Partner portal to update profiles, accept or decline awards, and check application status, awards, messages, and aid information. Ellucian describes PowerCampus as web-enabled on a Microsoft platform and lists cloud deployment. It is intended for small to mid-sized colleges and universities. Pricing is available on request. Ellucian’s Customer Center provides documentation, assistance, training, case management, and software downloads.
Who it is for
PowerCampus Financial Aid is intended for staff and students navigating aid processes at small to mid-sized colleges and universities. It suits institutions needing application, award, federal-data, and reporting workflows.
What is good
- Supports individual and batch award packaging.
- Processes and disburses funds.
- Includes the PowerFAIDS Net Partner student portal.
- Supports specified federal aid compliance tasks.
- Offers cloud deployment.
What to know first
- Pricing is available on request.
- The solution utilizes College Board PowerFAIDS.
- Cloud security is described as a shared responsibility with customers.
Verdict
PowerCampus Financial Aid combines staff processing and reporting tools with a student portal and stated compliance support. Institutions should confirm pricing and how the College Board PowerFAIDS foundation fits their needs.
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
