WHO WE SERVE: CAREER & VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS

Purpose-Built for Career Education.

Clock-hour compliance. Placement tracking. Title IV disbursements. Accreditation reporting. Multi-campus operations across a growing school group. The operational complexity of career and vocational education is unlike any other sector, and most SIS platforms treat it as an afterthought. Student First was built to handle it natively, without the workarounds that slow your team down and put your institution at risk.
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WE UNDERSTAND YOUR REALITY

Career Schools Are Held to a Higher Compliance Standard.
Your SIS Should Be Too.

Career and vocational institutions operate in one of the most regulated environments in higher education. Clock-hour tracking, placement rate disclosure, SEVIS compliance, Title IV disbursements, and accreditor-specific requirements don't leave room for error, or for a platform that requires manual workarounds to handle them.

Clock Hours Tracked in Spreadsheets or Workarounds

Most SIS platforms were built for credit hours. Clock-hour tracking gets bolted on as an afterthought; creating manual processes, reconciliation errors, and compliance risk every time an auditor asks for documentation.

Placement Data That's Always Behind

Graduate placement rates are both a marketing asset and a regulatory requirement. When placement data lives in spreadsheets or disconnected systems, it's always incomplete, always out of date, and never ready when you need it most.

Title IV Compliance That Keeps Your Team Up at Night

COD file management, R2T4 calculations, PELL packaging, and SAP monitoring are high-stakes operations that legacy platforms handle inconsistently, leaving financial aid teams to fill the gaps manually and hope nothing surfaces at audit time.

Managing Multiple Campuses Without Multiplying Complexity

Growing school groups managing multiple locations often end up with disconnected systems, inconsistent data, and compliance processes that can't scale because their SIS was never built to coordinate across campuses from a single platform.
WHY STUDENT FIRST

One Platform That Handles Everything Career Education Requires, Natively.

Student First wasn't adapted for career education after the fact. Clock hours, credit hours, and rolling starts are all managed natively in the same data model; no separate modules, no workarounds, no reconciliation between systems. Title IV compliance tools, SEVIS tracking, placement monitoring, and accreditation reporting are built in from the ground up.

That means your financial aid team isn't patching together a compliance process. Your registrar isn't manually reconciling attendance records. Your career services team has real-time placement data on demand. And your students have a clear, personalized experience that reflects where they are in their program at every step. And for school groups operating multiple campuses, one unified platform means consistent data, centralized reporting, and compliance visibility across every location, without managing a separate system for each.

Native Clock-Hour Tracking

Clock hours, attendance, and program completion tracked natively; no workarounds, no separate systems, always audit-ready.

Placement Tracking & Compliance Reporting

Real-time placement data with audit-ready reports generated on demand for accreditors, state regulators, and institutional marketing.

Title IV Compliance Built In

COD file management, R2T4 calculations, PELL 1-4 packaging, and SAP monitoring; automated, documented, and audit ready.

SEVIS & International Student Compliance

Track visa requirements, produce SEVIS files, and maintain international student documentation alongside domestic records in one unified system.

AI-Powered Student Success Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of attendance, academic progress, and financial standing with proactive alerts that reach students before they disenroll.
BUILT FOR YOUR OPERATIONS

Every Capability Your Institution Needs. Connected in One Platform.

Recruiting & Admissions

Multichannel prospect engagement, mobile-first applications, and enrollment workflows built for the high-velocity admissions cycle of career programs.
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Advising

AI-powered at-risk monitoring and proactive intervention tools that keep career school students on track through high-stakes, accelerated programs.
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Academic Operations

Clock-hour and credit-hour program management, cohort tracking, SAP monitoring, and no-code curriculum tools built for program diversity.
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Financial Aid

Title IV disbursements, PELL packaging, R2T4 calculations, and COD file management; fully automated and audit ready.
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Student Finance

Automated billing, flexible payment plans, real-time ledgers, and collections management built for the financial complexity of career school students.
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Student Records

Clock-hour transcripts, rolling start program records, SEVIS documentation, and accreditation reporting; all in one system of record.
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Student Portal

A personalized, mobile-first student hub that keeps career school students informed about program progress, financial status, and next steps, in their preferred language.
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Career Services

Real-time placement tracking, compliance-ready outcome reporting, and employer relationship management that turn placement rates into a recruiting asset.
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AI INTELLIGENCE FOR CAREER & VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS

The AI That Keeps Career School Students on Track, and Your Institution Compliant.

Predict and Prevent Student Attrition

Career school students face unique pressures, financial stress, demanding schedules, and the weight of a significant personal investment in their future. Student First's AI monitors attendance patterns, academic progress, and financial standing continuously, alerting advisors and staff when intervention is needed before a student disengages. Catching at-risk students early isn't just a retention strategy. It's a mission-critical function.

Automate Compliance. Eliminate Risk.

Title IV compliance, clock-hour tracking, SEVIS reporting, and placement rate disclosure are not areas where manual processes are acceptable. Student First's AI automates the monitoring, calculation, and documentation behind every compliance obligation, so your team is always prepared for an audit, never scrambling for one.

Turn Placement Data into a Competitive Advantage

Real-time placement tracking gives career schools accurate, current outcome data at all times, not just at annual reporting time. Use it to satisfy accreditors, inform prospective students, and demonstrate the ROI of your programs in a market where outcomes matter more than ever.

AI-First. Human-Verified.

AI automates compliance and surfaces risks. Your team reviews, decides, and owns every outcome.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS

What Career School Leaders Are Saying.

“Our implementation projects are customarily delivered in less than one year. Thus, your school is up and running on the new solution faster and with less staff fatigue than other competitive offerings.”

David Meek
CEO

“Student First offers incredible performance and scalability using a micro-services architecture. No competitive product is more technologically advanced, which guarantees the value of your investment for the future.  Many existing solutions are built on legacy platforms that are near end of life.”

David Meek
CEO

Ready to See What Student First Does for Career Schools Specifically?

We'll show you a demo built around your institution type; clock-hour programs, Title IV compliance, placement tracking, multi-campus operations, and the student experience your students deserve. No generic walkthrough. A focused conversation about what matters most to career education.
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