Education
FP&A Software for Education
Tie enrollment, tuition, and staffing into one model so your financial plan keeps up with your school.
Excel Wasn’t Built for Enrollment Swings
Excel wasn't built to handle enrollment swings, tuition tiers, scholarships, and athletics revenue. Generic FP&A tools flatten complexity into simple rows, leaving leaders blind to the ripple effects of enrollment on revenue and staffing.
Centage ties tuition, enrollment, and staffing into one dynamic model—so when enrollment changes, your entire financial plan adjusts automatically.
“90% of what I do revolves around Centage. It's simple, fast, and without it, I couldn't do my job.” — John Nam, Director of Finance, Big Blue Marble Academy
Industry Challenges
Enrollment-Driven Revenue
Tuition, fees, and program revenue fluctuate with student enrollment, making forecasting unpredictable without enrollment-linked models.
Tuition Tiers & Scholarships
Multiple tuition structures, financial aid packages, and scholarship programs create layers of complexity that spreadsheets can't handle cleanly.
Academic Calendar Alignment
Expenses and revenue don't follow a standard fiscal calendar—they follow semesters, terms, and academic cycles that require flexible spread methods.
Faculty & Staff Planning
Staffing needs shift with enrollment volumes, requiring dynamic workforce models that connect headcount to incoming student numbers.
Multi-Campus Operations
Schools, departments, and campuses each have unique budgets that must roll up into a consolidated institutional view.
Board & Trustee Reporting
Trustees and administrators require clear, accurate financial reports that communicate complex data in an accessible format.
How Centage Helps
Purpose-built tools that address the unique financial planning needs of education institutions.
Enrollment-Based Forecasting
Forecast revenue by enrollment, tuition type, or athletic program. Centage ties tuition and fee revenue directly to enrollment assumptions so changes in student volumes automatically ripple through your financial model.
Faculty & Staff Workforce Planning
Plan faculty and staff needs based on incoming student volumes. Model hiring, attrition, and compensation changes at the individual position level with full benefit and tax calculations built in.
Academic Calendar Spread Methods
Align expenses to academic calendars with flexible spread methods. Whether your institution runs on semesters, trimesters, or year-round programs, Centage adapts to your schedule.
Cohort Modeling
Track student groups across multiple years with cohort-based planning. Model retention rates, progression, and the financial impact of each incoming class as they move through your programs.
Multi-Campus Consolidation
Consolidate financials across departments, schools, and campuses automatically. Maintain location-level detail while giving leadership a unified view of the entire institution's finances.
Board-Ready Reporting
Give trustees and administrators clear, accurate insight into financial performance. Generate professional reports that communicate complex data in formats designed for non-financial stakeholders.
Real-World Scenario
The Challenge
An early childhood education network with 50+ locations needs to forecast revenue across multiple tuition tiers and scholarship programs while planning staffing based on projected enrollment at each campus.
The Centage Solution
Finance builds enrollment-linked revenue models for each campus, with tuition tiers and scholarship discounts flowing automatically into net revenue projections. Staffing plans adjust dynamically as enrollment assumptions change.
The Outcome
Campus directors submit enrollment projections through guided workflows, finance sees the revenue and staffing impact instantly, and leadership gets a consolidated view of all locations with board-ready reporting.
Education Industry FAQs
Yes. Centage links tuition and fee revenue directly to enrollment assumptions. When you adjust enrollment projections—by program, campus, or student type—revenue forecasts update automatically across your entire model.
Centage supports multiple tuition structures, financial aid levels, and scholarship programs. You can model net tuition revenue by student segment, so you always see the true revenue impact of your aid strategies.
Absolutely. Centage provides flexible spread methods that align to semesters, trimesters, or custom academic periods—so your budget matches how your institution actually operates, not a generic fiscal calendar.
Yes. Centage supports distributed budgeting workflows where department heads, deans, or program directors enter their own assumptions within guardrails set by finance. Approvals and version control keep the process organized.
Centage automatically consolidates data from every campus, school, and department. You can view results at any level—from a single department to the entire institution—with full drill-down capability.
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