Align Education & Career Guidance with PathwayU
Discover the patented career assessment and planning solution that keeps students engaged throughout their academic journey.
Career guidance, backed by science
Designed to encourage student success, PathwayU by PeopleGrove is how higher ed scales career advising and planning. A unique combination of cutting-edge predictive science and a patented algorithm makes it easier for institutions to offer more personal – and more meaningful – academic and career planning support to entire student populations.
Improve Student Outcomes
Help students find their fit at your school
More than one million students drop out of college every year (three-quarters of them are first-gen and two-thirds underserved). Crucial in today’s higher ed landscape is comprehensive career development support, and it starts by helping students declare early on the right major for them. Because when students delay declaring a major, four-year graduation rates, students retention, persistence, and mental health are all shown to decline.
From the moment students begin their college journeys, PathwayU by PeopleGrove provides a groundbreaking early clarity metric that guides students to not just an area of study but purpose and meaning in their educational journey. Users can choose a major more quickly and feel secure in their choice -- improving persistence and educational outcomes. Higher retention, on-time graduation, job placements, and graduate school acceptances can benefit as a result.
Do More with PathwayU by PeopleGrove
Expand the capabilities of academic & career counseling
Reach
every student with personalized results
Recruit
using the science of fit, and reduce enrollment melt
Retain
more students through education to career confidence
How It Works
Replace traditional career assessment for the modern student
Guide Students to Purpose & Meaning
Students Complete an Academic and Career Survey. A revolutionary approach to traditional career assessments, PathwayU’s proprietary science holds two patents for guiding students to find purpose and meaning in their education to career journey. Students begin with four surveys, answering questions about their Interests, Values, Personality, and Workplace preferences. Only 20 minutes to complete, the self-discovery process can take place in class or on a student’s own initiative – just once or year after year.
Get Research-backed Career Results
Career Matches. Combining the well-regarded HEXACO framework and Holland’s RIASEC Theory of Vocational types, along with PathwayU’s unique predictive analytics, the technology gives students reliable, valid career results that predict how different vocational paths will best fit them. Each student’s result is highly personal and based on matches between their individual attributes and the characteristics of particular career paths.
Path Exploration. Instead of labeling students like traditional career assessments, PathwayU guides students as they explore recommended career paths and learn about the responsibilities, knowledge, education, skills, and abilities needed to be successful in them. Day-in-the-life and salary information is also included.
Align Career Paths to Academics
Help Students with Undeclared Majors & Make Academic Advising More Effective. PathwayU maps its assessment results to an institution’s available majors, showing both students and advisors which of the school’s courses align with a student’s career recommendations. Equipped with customized explanations of their results, students can arrive at their advising meeting better prepared with questions to guide their course and program decision making.
And if plans change or alumni need support, PathwayU can be revisited by any learner, anytime, for life.
Empower Advisors for Next-level Guidance
Personalized, Equitable, Scalable Support. PathwayU provides staff with each student’s personalized assessment PLUS guidance on how to apply their results to educational pathways. Promoting empirically-supported feedback and unbiased career assessments, PathwayU makes advising meetings more meaningful and career services operationally efficient.
Partner Results
Student satisfaction, confidence, and retention
89%
of Greenville University students recommend PathwayU
79%
of Calvin College students say PathwayU helped them choose areas of study or reaffirmed their program choice
71%
increase in new student retention at Montgomery County Community College
Get Started
Recognized for innovation & ease of implementation
With four easy steps, PathwayU’s award-winning technology can be implemented on campus within days. There’s no need to connect to a school’s LMS and no need for a student's academic records
- We build and configure your site with your school’s colors, logo, and brand identity.
- We give you marketing promotional materials to use to promote the tool to your students, including digital assets to help drive user adoption.
- You have access to a knowledge base so staff can read up on student survey results and reporting.
- Ongoing support for staff and students is provided through embedded resources and chat support.
Scale Advising Services
Features to help universities serve every student
Universities Using PathwayU by PeopleGrove
100+ U.S. colleges and universities
Student Testimonials
“This has influenced the way I think about my education/career because I learned that I enjoy hands-on activities and I like to be helping others. From what I learned, I found a job that would work best with what I enjoy. I just had to pick a major that would match with what my career would be.”
Student Testimonials
“It really helped sort of narrow down my interest and to be specific about what I really want to do with my education.”
Student Testimonials
“This gave me accurate interest, values, and workplace preferences; this surprised me because I did not expect such accurate results. I feel it was very accurate because it gave me suggestions that I would not have considered yet they fit me very well."
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