Higher Education Institutions
Ensure a thriving institution today and in the future.
High-impact colleges and universities around the world choose Blackbaud higher education portal software to drive success.
Read these stories and more in our customer story showcase.
There's never been a better time to be a part of our community.
76%
of Canada's top 25 universities
are powered by Blackbaud
73%
of U15 Group of Canadian
Research Universities
$100B
raised, granted, and invested in their programming by our customers each year
The Cloud Solution for Higher Education Institutions
Purpose-built to drive digital transformation and impact across your institution. Flexible and scalable to work the way you want.
Connect your institution with a consistent user experience, shared data and leading-edge cloud innovation.
Increase revenue, drive efficiency, and deepen engagement with higher education fundraising software solutions that connect your entire campus.
Public support for higher education is eroding. Long-term, stable funding sources are dwindling. Alumni communities are more dispersed now than ever before, and alumni and campus communities have new and sophisticated expectations. Amid challenges like these, you need a partner with the commitment, expertise, and proven ability to help you not just respond to the changing landscape but thrive in it.
Blackbaud's purpose-built solutions for higher education enable your institution to:
- Advance your institution with increased revenue
- Deepen alumni engagement and enhance community outreach
- Connect departments and students, saving time and effort and driving increased outcomes
- Improve the student and alumni experience through high-impact life cycle management
With unmatched higher education software solutions spanning across campus, unparalleled analytics, and undisputed expertise, no other partner can help you ensure a thriving institution today and in the future like Blackbaud.
Integrated Higher Education Software Solutions
Our higher education software helps you to drive unmatched efficiency by connecting Advancement, Enrollment and Admissions, Alumni Relations, Academics, Finance and Operations, and Marketing and External Relations, with integrated:
Resources for Higher Education Institutions
Increasing Scholarship Applications
Ensuring maximum scholarship fund utilization, is a key objective of awards programs in universities and colleges across Canada. Learn how to develop a plan that can better promote your scholarship and award offerings, to current and prospective students.
Knowing When to Say Goodbye to QuickBooks
You may be familiar or may have used QuickBooks for your nonprofit or charity because it was affordable and worked well enough. But as your social good organization has grown limitations of an accounting solution made for commercial-use may become apparent.
Tailoring the Parent Experience
Learn how Canadian independent schools can better communicate with and market to parents to grow enrollment and retention rates by defining what an interactive parent experience looks like.
Innovating in a Changing World
Now’s the time to rethink strategies when it comes to donor outreach, retention, and personalization. Our toolkit is packed with recommendations Canadian nonprofits and charities can take to engage and retain their supporters.