Regent Financial Aid is a cloud-based system for automating financial aid management at higher education institutions. It handles eligibility, packaging and repackaging, disbursement, and Return of Title IV processing. The platform supports standard and non-standard terms, subscription periods, non-term enrollment, and competency-based education, and can award federal, state, institutional, and donor funds through one engine. Regent says its suite integrates with SIS, CRM, FAM, ISIR, and NSLDS systems. Its Regent Award application for Salesforce surfaces financial aid insights in the CRM. Product capabilities include document collection, award letter delivery, compliance reporting, and packaging workflows. Regent says federal regulatory changes arrive as platform updates. Security measures it describes include alignment with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, centralized SIEM monitoring 24/7, SOC 1 and SOC 2 certifications, and compliance with TX-RAMP, SCHEV, and other state and local requirements. User roles can restrict viewing or editing student data. Specialized funds and eligibility rules fall outside standard automatic packaging and can be configured through paid Managed Services. Pricing is available on request.
Who it is for
Regent Financial Aid is aimed at financial aid professionals at higher education institutions, particularly those managing nonstandard or non-term enrollment and competency-based education. Institutions with specialized funds or eligibility rules should account for the separate Managed Services offering.
What is good
- Automates eligibility, packaging, disbursement, and Return of Title IV processing.
- Supports non-term enrollment and competency-based education.
- One engine can award federal, state, institutional, and donor funds.
- Integrates with SIS, CRM, FAM, ISIR, and NSLDS systems.
- User roles can restrict access to student data.
What to know first
- Pricing is available on request.
- Specialized funds and eligibility rules fall outside standard auto-packaging.
- Specialized configuration is through paid Managed Services.
Verdict
Regent Financial Aid covers a broad aid lifecycle and varied enrollment models, including CBE. Institutions should review integration needs and whether their specialized funds require paid configuration services.
Compared on financial aid management software
- Deployment
- cloud
- Aid program coverage
- both
- Document collection
- Yes
- Award letter delivery
- Yes
- Compliance reporting
- Yes
- Packaging workflows
- Yes
