What Campus Community does

Campus Community, operating as Campus Core LLC, is a mobile-first student engagement SaaS platform founded in 2022 by Christian Alyea and headquartered in the United States. The company sells a subscription-based, configurable platform to colleges and universities—ranging from community colleges to Ivy League institutions—across four integrated product areas: Student Life Engagement (clubs, organizations, events, QR check-in, digital badges); Education Abroad Management (program workflows, faculty-led proposals, reporting, alumni engagement); International Student Engagement / ISSS Engagement (institution-branded mobile app, ambassador chat, admitted-student communities, pre-arrival matching); and Global 360, an online global learning product built on 3,000+ immersive 360° videos across 80 locations in 13 countries.

The platform is architected as an institution-branded mobile app with broadcast messaging, moderated group forums, direct/group chat, smart matching, micro-communities, custom workflows, role-based permissions, SIS/CRM API integration, and SSO. It is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, HIPAA compliant, and WCAG accessible. Underlying capabilities include structured-data matching/recommendation engines for student connections and rules-based process automation for engagement pathways and event check-in.

Campus Community operates a direct enterprise field-sales GTM motion, with discovery calls and demos scheduled via its website, supplemented by community-led growth through student ambassadors and peer-to-peer advising. Pricing is quote-based and quote-only, offered à la carte or bundled across the four solution areas on an annual subscription cadence. The company reports 100+ partner institutions—including Columbia University, Miami University, University of Georgia, Purdue University Global, Colorado State University, Loyola Marymount University, and Central Piedmont Community College—and is led by a small team of approximately eight full-time staff plus four PhD-level advisors.

Name

Campus Community

Legal name

Campus Core LLC

Website

https://campuscommunity.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Campus Community is a mobile-first SaaS platform that helps U.S. colleges and universities centralize student life, study abroad, international student services, and online global learning through configurable, subscription-based mobile apps and engagement tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Student Engagement Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student & Alumni Communities (BPAMABAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Campus Events, Programming & Student Engagement (EDALAHAC), Student Organizations & Club Administration (EDALAHAB)

Keywords

• Student engagement platform
• Education abroad management
• International student services
• Campus life software
• Higher education technology

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Petersburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Campus Community operates on a subscription model, offering flexible packages that can be purchased à la carte or bundled. Solutions are customized to reflect each institution's goals and structure, with pricing based on the scope of deployment across the four solution areas: Student Life Engagement, Education Abroad Management, International Student Engagement, and Online Global Learning.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Campus Community is a mobile-first SaaS platform that helps colleges and universities centralize and streamline student life management, education abroad administration, international student engagement, and online global learning. The platform offers customizable, institution-branded mobile apps with communication tools (push notifications, group forums, direct/group messaging), community-building features (micro-communities, peer matching, ambassador chat), event and program management, and an immersive Global 360 content library for virtual study abroad.

Product overview

Campus Community is a mobile-first student engagement platform offered as a unified ecosystem with modular solutions. The platform comprises four core products: Student Life Engagement (for managing clubs, organizations, events, and campus involvement), Education Abroad Management (for streamlining study abroad operations, marketing, and alumni engagement), International Student Engagement (for admissions yield, peer connections, and pre-arrival communities), and Global 360 (an interactive online global learning platform with immersive 360° content). ISSS Engagement operates as a specialized module under International Student Engagement. The platform adapts to institutional goals through configurable tools, custom workflows, and role-based permissions, serving institutions from community colleges to Ivy League universities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Global 360: Interactive platform featuring immersive international education content with geotagged 360° photos, videos, and educational materials from global locations for faculty and institutions.
• ISSS Engagement

Products and services

• Student Life Engagement Mobile-first platform for centralizing clubs, organizations, and events management for college and university student life offices. Includes unified activities calendars, resource hubs, event management, form management, role permissions, multi-channel promotion, QR code check-in/check-out, real-time analytics, and experiential pathways for micro-credentials and digital badges.
• Education Abroad Management Comprehensive platform for managing all aspects of education abroad programs at colleges and universities, including program management, custom workflows, robust reporting, user role management, faculty-led program proposals, surveys, video reflections, broadcast messaging, discussion boards, direct/group messaging, digital marketing, program matching, lead generation, and alumni engagement.
• International Student Engagement Platform helping admissions and international student offices at higher education institutions increase yield, ease student adjustment, and foster belonging through institution-branded mobile apps, Ambassador Chat, and automated admitted student communities. Features include push notifications, direct/group messaging, group forums with moderation, micro-communities, smart matching, and pre-arrival engagement pathways.
• ISSS Engagement Mobile-first communication and support management solution for International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) programming at colleges and universities. Features broadcast messages with push notifications, moderated group forums, quick links, group/direct messages, tasks manager, community building features, friendship matching, study buddy/group matching, and micro-communities.
• Global 360 (Online Global Learning) Interactive online global learning platform featuring immersive international education content including geotagged 360° photos, 360° interactive videos, educational videos, high definition photos, drone videos, timelapses, and an interactive satellite map. Includes 3,000+ global learning videos, 112+ hours of content, 80 global locations across 13 countries, and 150 multidisciplinary topics, designed to internationalize curriculum and expand access to global learning experiences.

Quantifiable outcome

• Central Piedmont Community College enrolled 1,500+ students in Global 360 virtual term abroad courses since June 2021
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Columbia UniversitycoreOthersColumbia University is listed as a partner institution using Campus Community's mobile-first student engagement platform for student life, education abroad, and international student engagement.
• Miami UniversitycoreOthersMiami University is a partner institution using Campus Community for international student engagement and ISSS services. The Director of ISSS has provided positive testimonials about the platform's ease of use and implementation.
• University of GeorgiacoreOthersUniversity of Georgia is listed as a partner institution using Campus Community's student engagement platform.
• Purdue University GlobalcoreOthersPurdue University Global is listed as a partner institution using Campus Community's platform for student engagement.
• Loyola Marymount UniversitycoreOthersLoyola Marymount University uses Campus Community's Education Abroad Management Platform. The Assistant Director of Study Abroad has provided a testimonial praising the platform's clean interface, intuitive navigation, and responsive team support.
• Colorado State UniversitycoreOthersColorado State University's Director of International Students and Scholars Services has provided a testimonial about Campus Community's impact on creating belonging and community for international students.
• Albion CollegecoreOthersAlbion College's Associate Director of International Recruitment has provided a testimonial about Campus Community enabling authentic connection opportunities between prospective and current international students.
• Central Piedmont Community CollegecoreOthersCentral Piedmont Community College has successfully implemented Global 360, enrolling over 1,500 students in virtual term abroad courses since June 2021.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Instructure (Canvas): Instructure's Canvas is the dominant LMS in higher education; its adjacent engagement, mobile, and analytics features create a competitive floor under platforms like Campus Community and may absorb engagement use cases natively.
• Anthology (Campus Management): Anthology is a large, established higher education software suite covering SIS, CRM, and student engagement — competing broadly with Campus Community and serving as a default incumbent for many institutions.
• Hobsons (by EAB): EAB/Hobsons provides enrollment management, student success, and international recruitment tools widely used by universities — a broad incumbent whose international student recruitment features compete with Campus Community's yield and ISSS solutions.

Emerging players

• Civitas Learning: Civitas Learning offers student success and analytics tools for higher education, partially overlapping with Campus Community's engagement analytics and experiential pathway digital badge functionality.
• Populi: Populi provides an integrated SIS, LMS, and CRM platform for small colleges — an emerging/regional-style competitor where smaller institutions might consolidate vendors rather than buy a specialized engagement platform.
• Aula Education: Aula is a higher-education-focused digital engagement platform for course discussion and student community, overlapping with Campus Community's group forums, messaging, and ambassador chat features.
• Graduway: Graduway provides alumni and student community platforms for higher education institutions, with overlap on Campus Community's alumni engagement and education abroad alumni modules.

Others

• Niche / Niche.com: Niche is a discovery, review, and student engagement platform used by colleges for recruitment and student life content; comparable as an ecosystem participant in the higher ed student engagement space, though not a direct SaaS competitor.

Direct peers

• Ready Education: Ready Education offers a mobile student engagement platform for higher education, including student life, orientation, and campus communities — directly comparable to Campus Community's Student Life Engagement and International Student Engagement modules.
• Astra (formerly Oohlala): Astra's mobile engagement platform targets higher education with student life, orientation, and community features — overlapping closely with Campus Community's student life, clubs, and ambassador chat functionality.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@CampusCommunityTech
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/campus-community
• Instagraminstagram.com/campuscommunitytech

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Campus Community