Stellic

Overview

Stellic is a student journey platform for colleges and universities, bringing degree planning, advising, and transfer pathways into one system alongside existing student information systems. Its breadth is a strong fit for institutions coordinating work across students, advisors, registrars, and administrators; schools seeking an individual student login should start with an advisor.

Key features

Progress combines degree audits with an audit-aware, multi-year planner. Students can see where they stand toward graduation and explore how a program change affects requirements, while pathways compare plans across programs or timelines. That makes it useful for institutions that want planning decisions grounded in degree requirements rather than separate manual tracking.

Care gives advising teams shared student profiles, notes, in-app messaging, appointments, filtering, and reports, alongside early alerts and engagement signals. The combination supports ongoing advising and intervention workflows; institutions should weigh that against the work of incorporating another platform into campus processes.

Explore covers prospective-student pathways and transfer rule management. AI transcript analysis is intended to automate transcript processing and transfer credit evaluation, which may suit institutions handling those tasks at scale.

One-click course registration is an optional add-on, supported by real-time SIS integration. Stellic also connects with student information systems, learning management systems, and other campus tools, with batch syncs and periodic or real-time integration mechanisms. Its REST APIs let institutional partners retrieve and publish data, but access requires a Personal Access Token requested from Stellic’s integration team; institutions may also need to provide IP addresses for whitelisting. That makes API planning a practical implementation dependency, not an instant self-service step.

Stellic says it works alongside existing student information systems rather than replacing them. Its CIO page describes the platform as SOC 2 certified and WCAG 2.2 AA accessible.

Pricing

Stellic is paid software with custom pricing. Institutions are directed to request a demo and pricing; no public subscription plans or prices are provided. This sales-led approach may suit institutions evaluating a campus-wide system, but buyers cannot compare a published tier against their expected needs before speaking with Stellic. No free plan or trial is described.

Platforms

Stellic is available on the web and through an API. Mobile access is web-based. API access is intended for institutional partners and depends on obtaining a token from the integration team, with IP whitelisting potentially required.

Who it's for

Stellic is aimed at higher education institutions and the students, advisors, administrators, registrars, provosts, and CIOs they serve. It is most compelling for campuses looking to link degree progress, academic planning, advising, and transfer evaluation in a platform that complements existing student information systems. It is not presented as a standalone student app with direct public sign-up.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Degree audits, multi-year planning, and pathways sit together, so students can connect potential course or program changes to progress toward graduation.
• Pro: Advising tools combine profiles, communication, appointments, alerts, and reporting, giving teams a shared set of functions for student support.
• Pro: Transfer rule management and AI transcript analysis address prospective and transfer student pathways as well as current-student planning.
• Pro: Stellic is designed to work alongside campus systems and describes SOC 2 certification and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility.
• Con: Pricing is custom, with no public plans or trial, so institutions must engage Stellic to assess cost and fit.
• Con: API use requires a token requested from the integration team, and potentially IP whitelisting; institutions planning integrations need to account for that access process.
• Con: One-click registration is optional rather than part of the core package, so campuses that need it should include the add-on in their evaluation.

Alternatives

For a narrower comparison, browse Degree Audit Software or Academic Advising Software.

• FlightPath is the alternative to consider when a free, self-hosted web system is the priority; its Community Edition requires a MySQL database and PHP 7.4 or PHP 8.x.
• uAchieve Degree Audit is another paid, self-hosted web option, with subscription pricing quoted to institutions.
• Risely Agentic Degree Audit is a paid web-based alternative to consider for a different degree-audit product.
• CollegeSource Transferology suits students seeking free transfer exploration or institutions seeking a separately priced subscription.
• DegreeSight is a paid web alternative with custom pricing and no published tiers.
• Kuali Advisor is another paid web-based option.
• DegreeReady is a paid web option with pricing on request and no free plan or trial.
• Parchment Transfer Articulation is worth considering when transfer articulation is the primary need; it is licensed to systems, consortia, and institutions and can be combined with Course Sharing and Dual Enrollment.

Verdict

Stellic is a strong candidate for higher education institutions that want degree progress, planning, advising, and transfer support in one platform that works alongside their existing systems. Its chief advantage is that breadth; its main reasons to look elsewhere are custom pricing and the integration work required for API access. Request a demo if those trade-offs fit the institution’s needs.