event management software for universities

Transform Your Campus Into A Vibrant Community 

Bring students, alumni, faculty, and parents together by hosting engaging events that foster connections. Host academic conferences, student life events, career fairs, alumni reunions, fundraisers, and more.

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Centralize your events in one powerful platform

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Manage onsite, hybrid, and virtual events from one university event platform.

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Engage students, faculty, and alumni before, during, and after every campus event.

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Gain event insights through in-depth analytics, polls, surveys, and attendance reports.

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Give each department its own organizer account, event catalog, and team.

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Consistently brand all your events

Implement consistent branding across all your on and off-campus events.

Create (and duplicate) stunning, fully branded event pages with easy no-code tools.
Brand everything: your event website, invites, registration forms, order confirmations, apps, and check-in kiosks.

Streamline your event planning process

Cut back on admin work so you can focus on creating impactful events:

Create advanced registration flows with custom fields and conditional logic.
Accept online payments 24/7. We also support invoicing!
Offer self-check-in and badge printing options.
Get real-time analytics and reporting. 
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Manage Sessions and Speakers list in the event admin showing session types, speakers, and registrant counts

Host academic conferences of any size

Craft engaging conferences that encourage knowledge exchange and facilitate connections:

Manage multi-track agendas. Approve, waitlist, or deny speaker applications.
Provide a Mobile App that suggests connections and facilitates discussions through chat, polls, and Q&A.
Create digital expo or poster halls.
Blend in-person sessions with live streams.
Gamify activities like session attendance or content downloads.

Keep student and faculty data secure

Protecting student and faculty data is crucial. With Accelevents, you can:

Clear campus IT and security reviews with our SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, ISO 27001 certification, and GDPR compliance.
Protect records with 256-bit AES encryption at rest and TLS 1.2 in transit, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers in the United States.
Set permission levels for admins, faculty, speakers, sponsors, and students, with user access logs kept for at least 180 days.
Security and compliance badges including AICPA SOC, SSO, AWS, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and GDPR

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FAQ

Event technology for colleges, universities and similar higher education institutions serves diverse stakeholders, from students and faculty, to alumni, donors, and staff.

Here's a breakdown of the off and on campus events typically supported by these platforms:

  • Alumni Events: Reunions, networking events, charity balls, fundraisers
  • Conferences and Lectures: Conferences, symposiums, seminars, guest lectures.
  • Career Fairs: Job and internship fairs, career seminars and workshops.
  • Student Life Events: Commencement and graduation ceremonies, orientation events.
  • Faculty and Staff Meetings: Departmental meetings, education events, training sessions, faculty retreats.

Event management platforms like Accelevents offer everything you need to manage university events from start to finish:

  • event website creation (typically via a drag-and-drop editor)
  • event marketing
  • event registration and ticketing, check-in, and badge management
  • networking and engagement
  • agenda management (session and speaker management, approval workflows)
  • exhibitor and sponsor management
  • event analytics and dashboards
  • session tracking for continuing education credits
  • native and application programming interface (API) integrations with customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms
  • a mobile app with real-time notifications and reminders
  • a virtual event hub (for live streams and on-demand content)

Make sure the event software you choose meets all your needs to ensure event success!

Yes. Universities use the virtual event hub for webinars, virtual open days, online lectures, and virtual career fairs, with live streaming, chat, polls, and on-demand recordings. The same account also runs in-person and hybrid campus events.

Create ticket types for each audience, such as students, faculty, alumni, and guests, each with its own price, dates, and quantity. Use access codes to limit discounted student tickets, offer early-bird and group pricing, and accept card payments online or send invoices to departments. Attendees then check in at the door by scanning the QR code on their ticket.

Yes. In Accelevents, each department can have its own organizer, which works like a folder for its events and team members. Each organizer gets a public page listing its upcoming events, which can be embedded on the department’s website as an event calendar. Central teams keep consistent branding and templates, and multiple organizers are available on the Enterprise and White Label plans.

Popular alumni events include class reunions, homecoming weekends, regional chapter meetups, career networking nights, faculty lecture series, and virtual panels that let distant alumni join live. Use an event app with an attendee directory so alumni can reconnect and schedule meetings, and follow up with recordings for those who could not attend.

Yes. Set up employers as exhibitors with booth pages for their roles, videos, and documents. Students browse booths in the virtual event hub or event app, chat with recruiters, and book one-on-one meetings. At an in-person fair, recruiters scan student badges to capture contacts, and every employer receives its list of leads afterward.