Pathways Planner

Transform community college credits into university success. Create a precise semester-by-semester plan that maximizes savings while ensuring every credit counts toward your degree.

Three inputs is all it takes to save thousands on your degree.

Degree matching interface showing potential savings

Built for students and advisors

Students

Reduce the cost of a degree

The exorbitant costs of higher education often force students to choose between life-altering loans or forgoing college altogether. Pathways Planner reduces degree costs by helping students use transferable community college classes towards their target university and degree.

Graduate faster

On average, it takes students six years to earn a bachelor's degree. Pathways Planner helps students graduate on time by providing detailed semester-by-semester academic plans that outline which classes to take and when to take them.

Advisors

Automate academic plan creation

It takes advisors 1-2 hours on average to create a customized degree plan for their students. With Pathways Planner, they can supply their students with comprehensive degree plans in seconds.

Provide more meaningful guidance

By leveraging Pathways Planner, advisors are able to significantly reduce time spent on menial tasks, and are therefore able to devote more of their efforts toward providing meaningful counseling.

States benefit from increasing college transparency

When students fall behind due to poor planning, they often face a cascade of challenges: extended enrollment, mounting loans, and eventually, dropout. Pathways Planner breaks this cycle by providing clear guidance on course selection, keeping students on track to graduate on time with less debt.

While others view academic advising challenges as a staffing shortage, we see them as an efficiency issue. Pathways Planner automates routine tasks, allowing advisors to focus more of their time on meaningful one-on-one student counseling. This enhances advisor capacity without adding to their workload, offering a smarter alternative to meeting arbitrary personnel quotas.

When students take courses that don't align with their degree requirements, they often exhaust financial aid on credits that won't count toward graduation. Pathways Planner prevents this misallocation by showing students exactly which courses will transfer and apply to their target degree, helping states preserve financial aid resources for courses that advance degree completion. This ensures public education dollars are spent on credits that count, not courses that leave students stuck with debt and no degree.

Traditional degree paths often lead to delayed workforce entry and skills misalignment with local industry needs. Pathways Planner connects education to employment by helping students select courses that align with both their degree requirements and regional workforce demands. This creates a more direct pipeline from education to employment, strengthening local economies without requiring additional workforce development spending.