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Civitas Learning vs EAB Navigate

Both predict at-risk students from cross-campus data; Civitas centers on the predictive model itself, EAB Navigate on the advising workflow around it.

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Civitas Learning EAB Navigate
Vendor Civitas Learning, Inc. EAB (Education Advisory Board)
Pricing model Quote only Quote only
Free tier No No
Deployment Cloud Cloud
Open source No No
Best for Institutional research and student-success teams needing predictive analytics tied to measurable intervention impact. Advising and student-success offices coordinating outreach and case management across a whole campus.
Pricing

Enterprise licensing by institution size; not published.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Full-institution platform license (no per-user fees); price depends on institutional enrollment and scope, not published.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features
  • Predictive models for enrollment, persistence and completion
  • Unified data integration across SIS, LMS and other campus systems
  • Institution-specific AI agents for advising and student success
  • Initiative impact measurement across the student lifecycle
  • Early-alert dashboards for advisors and success teams
  • Enrollment and engagement analytics
  • Predictive risk alerts for student advising
  • Case management and appointment scheduling
  • Staff and student-facing AI assistants
  • Enrollment and recruitment management
  • Alumni and donor engagement tools
  • Reporting and analytics dashboards

Verdict

Civitas Learning and EAB Navigate both pull data from a college's student information system, LMS and other campus systems to flag students at risk of leaving, and both serve institutional research and student-success offices. The difference is what each one is built around. Civitas Learning is centered on the predictive model: the vendor states its models run at around 89% accuracy for enrollment, persistence and completion, and the platform includes tools specifically to measure whether an intervention changed an outcome, not just to flag risk. EAB Navigate is closer to a CRM purpose-built for higher education, organized around what EAB calls a "Coordinated Care Network" — case management, appointment scheduling and messaging — with predictive alerts feeding that workflow rather than being the centerpiece.

Pricing structure differs too: EAB licenses Navigate as a full campus platform covering all staff and students rather than per-user seats, with price scaling to institutional enrollment. Civitas Learning's pricing is quote-only with no published structure.

Choose Civitas Learning if

  • Your institutional research office wants to own and validate a predictive model, and to measure whether specific interventions actually moved outcomes.
  • You want AI agents extending prediction into enrollment, advising and student-success workflows specifically.
  • Impact measurement across the student lifecycle matters as much as the initial risk flag.

Choose EAB Navigate if

  • Your advising office needs case management, scheduling and messaging that gets outreach actually logged and tracked, not just a list of flagged students.
  • You want one platform license covering the whole campus rather than negotiating per-user access.
  • Enrollment, advising and alumni-advancement workflows should live in a single coordinated system.

The honest caveat

Vendor-stated model accuracy figures, like Civitas Learning's 89%, describe performance on the vendor's reference base, not your institution's population — validate any predictive claim against your own historical outcomes before treating it as a selection criterion. Whichever platform you choose, the harder problem is usually the advising capacity to act on alerts, not the quality of the prediction; see choosing an education analytics platform for that trade-off.

Last reviewed September 22, 2026

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