Entrance exams that predict success.
Understand what your successful graduates look like. Screen for those traits. Help borderline students get there instead of turning them away.
Your entrance exam should do more than filter. It should predict who will finish, and help those who might struggle get the support they need before they enroll.
RISE was built on research into the skills career-focused graduates actually use on the job — the skills employers require. But measuring the right skills is only the start. As your graduates’ outcomes flow back into the platform, RISE learns which of those skills define success at your school, in your programs — and adjusts the scoring weights to match. Your entrance exam stops being a static bar and becomes a profile of your own successful graduates.
When a new applicant takes RISE, you see exactly where they stand against that profile. Some will be ready to go straight in. Others will need targeted support. A few might not be ready yet. You make the call, and you have the data to back it up.
Improvement doesn’t wait until you have graduation data.
Thirty-day, sixty-day, and ninety-day completion signals tell you immediately what’s working. If your nursing program is seeing early friction in math comprehension, you build intervention training in before they enroll or during their first term — or adjust your admissions bar. If your welding program is thriving with your current profile, you keep it. The assessment gets smarter because you’re measuring what actually happens.
One school, more than one strategy.
Your school might require an entrance exam for nursing but use open enrollment for welding. RISE can be configured by program, so you’re not forced into a one-size-fits-all decision. Each program can have its own successful graduate profile and its own strategy.
Retention starts before day one.
Every school works on retention. Few systems measure how it’s affected by the skills students have when they come in. Your entrance exam already captures those skills for every applicant — RISE connects them to what happens next, so when students leave early, you can see whether the pattern traces back to something the exam saw on day one, and act on it.
Getting through a program takes more than reading and math.
RISE can measure more than cognitive skills. Persistence and readiness are an option on every assessment. Two applicants with the same cognitive score can have very different odds of finishing — this layer surfaces that difference before you decide, so you can admit with confidence or put support in place exactly where it’s needed.
Enrollment strategy isn’t permanent.
If your outcome data shows your bar is screening out applicants who would have succeeded with support — or that a program needs a higher one — you adjust that program without changing assessments, retraining staff, or losing your historical data.
Made for the schools that make careers.
RISE was developed on research into the skills graduates of career colleges, trade schools, and community colleges actually use on the job. It measures what employers are looking for in your graduates, not abstract college readiness.