Workday Delivers Student Admissions

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 29, 2015) - Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced Workday Student Admissions, a new application that helps higher education institutions meet targeted enrollment goals through data-driven insights related to a potential student's academic success at their institution.

Seamlessly unified with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workday Financial Management, Workday Student Admissions is the second application available in the full Workday Student system. Incorporating feedback from more than 20 higher education institutions, Workday Student is a mobile-first system that provides end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle information to help colleges and universities advance their institutions and enable student success.

A Data-Driven Approach to Student Admissions
The growing popularity and ease of submitting applications online combined with the ongoing use of paper-based submissions has resulted in students applying to more colleges and universities. As a result, the task of processing and evaluating individual applications to ensure student fit has become increasingly labor-intensive, time consuming, and prone to errors. Colleges and universities need a more effective way to address the changing landscape of application processing and admissions.

Workday Student Admissions extends the benefits of Workday Student Recruiting, enabling colleges and universities to:

• Easily Establish Admissions Requirements: An eligibility framework allows higher education institutions to easily define a set of application requirements that can be further configured for various academic divisions, departments, and programs of study. For example, an engineering school within a university system could easily set up a requirement for students to have taken additional math or science courses in order to qualify for a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program.
  
  
• Streamline Application Processing: Higher education institutions can create applicant pools based on categories such as program, region, and standardized test scores, enabling counselors to analyze the data and identify admissions trends. Additionally, because Workday Student Admissions is unified with Workday HCM, applicant pools can be assigned to admission counselors. Counselor workloads can then be managed through real-time insight into applicant pool assignments, helping ensure an efficient review process. For example, a student applying to a specialized program could be put in an applicant pool based on the program and eligibility requirements. Admissions counselors can then communicate with and track the students as a group throughout the application process.