One assessment. Every enrollment model.
Require an entrance exam for some programs. Use open enrollment for others. RISE runs both from the same platform.
Not every school fits one enrollment model. Your practical nursing program may require an entrance exam. Your medical assistant program may use open enrollment. Your HVAC program may sit somewhere in between — using an entrance exam but allowing some students just below the bar to be admitted with required support built in.
RISE handles all three from one assessment, configured program by program. Same instrument, same student experience, same outcome tracking. Different rules for what the score does.
Every program gets the model that fits it.
Entrance exam programs
Use RISE to screen applicants against the profile of your successful graduates — and to see, in the outcome data, whether the bar is set in the right place.
Open enrollment programs
Use RISE to understand each incoming cohort and target intervention programming where the data says students need it most.
Conditional enrollment programs
Use both at once: students who clear the bar enroll directly, and students just below it enroll with the right support attached — because you know exactly where the gap is.
Every program on the same instrument.
Because every program runs on the same instrument, your institutional view stays unified. Leadership sees readiness and outcomes across the whole school, program by program, in one place — no juggling separate tools for separate enrollment models.
Whichever model a program runs, the engine underneath is the same.
Retention starts at intake
Every school works on retention. Few systems measure how it’s affected by the skills students have when they come in. RISE does — for every program, whichever model it runs.
Improvement doesn’t wait
Improvement doesn’t wait until you have graduation data. Thirty-day, sixty-day, and ninety-day signals arrive first — for entrance exam and open enrollment programs alike.
More than reading and math
Getting through a program takes more than reading and math. Persistence and readiness are an option on every assessment, under every model.
Enrollment strategy isn’t permanent.
If your outcome data shows an open enrollment program would benefit from a readiness bar — or an entrance exam program is screening out students who would have succeeded with support — you reconfigure 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.