HR, Finance & Planning Solutions For Higher Education
A foundation to drive education forever forward.
More than 650 higher education institutions trust Workday for finance, human capital management (HCM), and student systems. With Workday helping to enhance financial stability, employee engagement, and student experience, you can focus on quality education.
Solutions And Software For Higher Education
Built for what's next in higher education.
Stay apace with the ever-evolving technology landscape, on a world-class platform designed to meet the dynamic needs of higher education. With higher education solutions from Workday, you get real-time insights across your institution - helping you make wise decisions and respond faster to change. Whether you're navigating funding pressures, rising expectations, or digital transformation, Workday student management software gives you the clarity and confidence to lead.
Empower student success
Elevate your students’ experience by creating educational pathways, breaking down barriers to achievement, and supporting students with intuitive self-service tools through a seamless student info system.
Enhance data-driven decisions
Gain clear visibility and trust in your data for more confident and timely critical decisions. Leverage AI-powered insights from comprehensive higher education software to create a holistic view of campus operations that support you to drive strategic plans that impact student outcomes.
Achieve academic and administrative excellence
Attract and build skilled staff and faculty with a modern workplace that offers self-service functionality and clear pathways for career development. Our higher education ERP helps you stay in touch with employee sentiment and well-being through surveys and alerts.
Who Else Uses Workday
Renowned Australian and New Zealand education institutions trust Workday.
How AI Works For Education
Unpack an AI-driven education future with us.
Hear how our powerful AI platform is revolutionising higher education. Discover the tangible value Workday Illuminate is bringing to educational institutions, along with an exploration of Workday Student.
Benefits To You
Rely on Workday to help you meet higher education's challenges.
Workday's unified student management software is designed to address the complexities faced by education providers in Australia and New Zealand. Workday helps you manage evolving demands through intelligent, integrated IT solutions.
Unify finance and people data.
Bring financial, workforce, and operational data together in one system to make confident decisions, reduce risk, and improve academic performance.
Plan with confidence and agility.
Model multiple scenarios, forecast tuition and staffing needs, and respond quickly to change with continuous planning across your institution.
Empower your workforce to thrive.
Support faculty and staff with intuitive self-service tools, clear career pathways, and real-time insights into wellbeing, sentiment, and performance.
Streamline student operations.
Simplify their admin tasks with one platform for academics, finances, advising, and employment - accessible anytime, anywhere.
Make smarter decisions faster.
Use AI-powered analytics to surface trends, track performance, and act on real-time insights across finance, HR, and student data.
Adapt quickly to change.
Workday’s configurable cloud architecture lets you restructure workflows, respond to regulatory shifts, and scale new programs without disruption.
Key Solutions For Education
Here to power the future of higher education.
Innovate, optimise, and scale - all while focusing on your students. Workday modernises experiences, provides deep insights, and streamlines operations to help you scale for the future while keeping students at the centre.
Student
Mobile-first self-serve tools, real-time insights into progress, automated student finance, and streamlined academic planning.
Human Capital Management
HR, employee experience, help knowledge and case management, planning, compensation, and benefits.
Financial Management
Accounting, payables, receivables, case and asset management, auditing, analytics, reporting and more.
Workday Adaptive Planning
Unified financial and workforce planning, real-time data aggregation and forecasting, scenario modelling, and benchmarking.
WHO SUCCEEDS WITH US
See why leading institutions choose Workday.
Discover how education organisations are streamlining operations and building resilience with Workday’s higher education software platform. From globally recognised universities to agile innovators, these education leaders are navigating complexity and compliance, empowering their people, and supporting their students.
How We Support You
Adopt Workday with confidence.
With comprehensive support from Workday and our partners, your institution can get up and running with Workday, fast. Our partnership is a collaborative journey, in which we listen to your needs and guide you every step of the way.
Awards & Recognition
Our recent recognition.
Workday’s commitment to supporting education institutions is highlighted by our awards and recognition.
2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Higher Education Student Information Systems Software as a Service
Read the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Higher Education Student Information Systems Software as a Service to learn why Workday has been named a Leader.
StarChart™: 2024 Student Systems
Workday was featured as a Vendor in Focus in the 2024 Tambellini Group StarChart for Student Systems. The StarChart™ is a visual guide to help higher education institutions identify best-fit technology solutions.
IDC MarketScape: North America Higher Education SaaS and Cloud-Enabled ERP Applications 2024
Workday was named as a leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape reports for North America Higher Education SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Student Information Systems and North America Higher Education SaaS and Cloud-Enabled ERP Applications.
Education Resources
Higher Education sector insights and trends.
Quick Demo: Workday Student in Action
Learn how Workday Student helps higher education institutions gain a complete, real-time view of campus operations to better monitor enrollment and course demand, staff accordingly, and meet the unique needs of changing student demographics.
Datasheet: Workday Student
Higher education institutions in Australia and New Zealand are leveraging Workday Student, a modern, cloud-based platform, to address the challenge of balancing rising student expectations. See how Workday Student can transform your institution and view the datasheet to look at its features and benefits.
Use Case: Creating a Brighter Future for Higher Education
Workday Adaptive Planning gives higher education institutions the planning, budgeting, and modeling capabilities they need to adapt as circumstances change.
eBook: How Five Higher Education Institutions are Transforming with Workday
Workday Enterprise Management Cloud unifies student, HR, finance, and planning with embedded AI and machine learning to create a flexible foundation that accelerates agility, sharpens performance, and enables smarter decision-making.
See how we help you succeed.