Higher Education Student Success
Improve Enrollment. Increase Retention. Graduate Students with Direction.
The AI-powered student success platform built around the world-renowned MAPP® Assessment connects student motivation to best-fit majors, careers, skills and next steps—from recruitment through alumni success.
For community colleges, four-year universities, technical colleges, online institutions and graduate schools. See the student experience.
Major connectedMotivation to opportunity
STUDENT SUCCESS DASHBOARD
ASSample College StudentYear 2 · Major & career plan
Top motivational themeCreative problem solving
Motivated by developing original solutions, communicating ideas and seeing tangible progress.
Best-fit career pathsMatch
UX Designer92%
Market Research Analyst89%
Product Manager86%
Lifecycle guidanceRecruit to lifelong growth
12.5M+people assisted worldwide
165+countries reached
Since 1995career assessment experience
40,000careers in the matching ecosystem
What is the Assessment.com Higher Education Platform?
Assessment.com is an AI-powered student success platform for colleges and universities. It combines the MAPP motivational career assessment with major matching, Career Explorer, educational pathways, advising tools, career readiness, customized assessment programs and institutional analytics.
The Problem and the Opportunity
The Challenges Facing Higher Education
Higher education is experiencing one of the most significant transformations in its history.
Institutions must compete for fewer traditional students while serving increasingly diverse learner populations that include adult learners, first-generation students, military veterans, career changers, transfer students and online learners.
Students need personalized, technology-enabled guidance throughout their college experience.
Students arrive asking:
Am I choosing the right major?
Will this degree lead to a meaningful career?
What if I change my mind?
Which careers fit my strengths?
What internships should I pursue?
How do I stand out to employers?
What skills do I need to develop?
Am I on the right educational path?
While accountable for more outcomes
Traditional advising alone cannot scale to meet these expectations.
Technology should extend the reach of trusted professionals, make every conversation more informed and give students useful guidance between appointments.
The Assessment.com Difference
One Personalized Student Success Ecosystem
Assessment.com transforms traditional advising into a continuous, data-informed experience. Students receive connected guidance while advisors gain intelligent tools that help them support significantly more learners without sacrificing personalization.
World-Renowned MAPP® Assessment
AI Student Success Assistant
Career Explorer
Educational Pathways
College Major Matching
Assessment Marketplace
AI Assessment Builder
RoleMatch AI
Progress Tracking
Institution Analytics
One secure platform for the entire learner journey.
Connect
assessment, AI, educational planning, career development, analytics and personalized
coaching in one experience.
From Enrollment to Employment
Support Every Student Across the Entire Lifecycle
Every assessment, recommendation, AI conversation and educational pathway can build on the last, creating guidance that grows with the student.
Recruit
Career discovery before enrollment
Enroll
Major and pathway confidence
Engage
Goals, skills and action plans
Persist
Insight for timely support
Graduate
Career-ready development
Get Hired
Role fit and launch support
Grow
Alumni career development
Institutional Priorities
Improve Enrollment, Retention and Career Outcomes
Attract Better-Fit Students
Let prospective learners discover careers, majors, educational pathways and earning potential before they enroll—demonstrating your commitment to their future from the first interaction.
Increase Retention
Help students validate a major, explore alternatives before transferring, connect coursework to goals and regain direction before uncertainty becomes disengagement.
Prepare Career-Ready Graduates
Connect motivation to professional skills, internships, certifications, résumés, interviews, leadership development and an actionable career plan.
The World-Renowned MAPP® Assessment
Help Students Discover Their Potential, Passion & Purpose
For more than 30 years, MAPP has helped millions of people identify careers aligned with their natural motivations.
Unlike a personality test or a simple interest list, MAPP focuses on intrinsic motivation—what energizes a learner, where they may naturally thrive and what kinds of work may support long-term engagement.
Explore the MAPP® Assessment →✓Motivational strengths
✓Ideal work environments
✓Career compatibility
✓Leadership potential
✓Communication preferences
✓Decision-making tendencies
✓Learning preferences
✓Personal strengths
✓Career satisfaction potential
Students move beyond asking“What degree should I choose?”“What kind of life and work will inspire me?”
AI Student Success Assistant
An Intelligent Partner for Every Student Success Professional
Advisors may support hundreds—or even thousands—of students. The AI assistant helps scale personalized preparation and follow-up while keeping professionals at the center.
Preview the AI Coaching Interface →The AI Assistant can:
- Summarize assessment results
- Prepare advising agendas
- Recommend majors
- Suggest career pathways
- Generate career action plans
- Recommend internships
- Generate practice interview assessments
- Create practice situational judgment questions
- Provide résumé review and improvement assistance
- Suggest certifications
- Recommend additional assessments
- Build personalized development plans
AI supports advisors; it does not replace their professional judgment, relationships or institutional expertise.
One Connected Platform
Give Every Team the Right View of Student Success
Connect strategy to measurable student activity.
Build consistent programs across enrollment, advising, career services and alumni engagement.
✓Participation and completion
✓Pathway and major insights
✓Cohort progress
✓Outcome reporting
Prepare faster and personalize every conversation.
Review motivations, major fit, saved careers and suggested next steps before students arrive.
✓Result summaries
✓Meeting agendas
✓Major alternatives
✓Follow-up plans
Connect learning to employability.
Help students translate motivation and skills into internships, professional development and career launch plans.
✓Career match scores
✓RoleMatch AI
✓Interview and résumé guidance
✓Internship readiness
Move from uncertainty to a plan worth pursuing.
Understand what motivates you, compare majors and careers, and build practical next steps.
✓Discover best-fit paths
✓Compare majors and credentials
✓Explore skills and outlook
✓Save and act on a plan
Interactive Student Experience
See How Insight Becomes an Academic and Career Plan
Choose a sample motivational profile to preview how MAPP can connect a learner to careers, programs, skills and next actions.
Select a sample profile
This illustration demonstrates the planning flow; it is not an assessment result.
Sample pathway for
MotivationCreate original solutions
CareerUX Designer
MajorInteraction Design
ExperiencePortfolio internship
Next StepBuild a sample project
Creative Builder
Values autonomy, visible progress and inventive work.
Review work, salary, outlook and AI Risk Score.
Compare programs, costs and completion data.
Connect skills to an applied learning opportunity.
Meet with an advisor and research three programs.
Personalized by Stage
Meet Learners Wherever They Enter the Journey
Recruit with purpose.
Offer self-discovery before enrollment and show how your institution connects education to meaningful careers.
✓MAPP career discovery
✓Major exploration
✓Personalized admissions engagement
✓Educational pathway comparison
Build confidence and belonging early.
Validate major decisions, connect coursework to long-term goals and identify areas for timely support.
✓Orientation assessments
✓Major matching
✓Student success plans
✓Engagement check-ins
Turn exploration into preparation.
Connect majors to careers, identify skill gaps and prepare for internships, certifications and leadership opportunities.
✓Career and skill exploration
✓Internship readiness
✓Leadership development
✓Personalized action plans
Graduate with more than a diploma.
Build a career launch plan covering professional skills, résumé, interviews, personal brand and employer fit.
✓RoleMatch AI
✓Interview coaching
✓Résumé guidance
✓Career action plan
Extend value across lifelong careers.
Support alumni, adult learners, veterans, transfer students and career changers as goals and opportunities evolve.
✓Career transitions
✓Graduate education
✓Leadership development
✓24/7 AI career coaching
Current, Decision-Useful Information
Connect Career Fit to Real Opportunity Data
Move beyond static occupational descriptions with current government data, real job listings, salary and outlook information, and an AI Risk Score for every career path.
Real-Time Government Data
Career and education exploration can draw on live and regularly updated public data sources.
- Occupational responsibilities and skills
- Education and credential requirements
- College program, cost and outcome information
Real Job Listings & Detailed Career Outlook
Let students move directly from a high-fit career path to current job opportunities and the information needed to judge its long-term potential.
- Current job listings related to each career
- Real salary ranges and geographic differences
- Projected growth, outlook and annual openings
- Common titles, employers, skills and requirements
- Education, experience and credential expectations
- AI Risk Score for every career path
AI Risk Score for Every Career Path
Help learners examine how AI may influence tasks, required skills and long-term planning—not as a prediction, but as another informed discussion point.
Illustrative career risk profile
Explore which activities may change and which human capabilities may become more valuable.
Assessment Marketplace & Builder
Build the Right Assessment Journey for Every Program
Use MAPP as the foundation, add specialized assessments and create institution-specific experiences without forcing every student into the same pathway.
Hundreds of Assessments
Build pathways by college, department, major, program or learner population.
- Leadership
- Emotional intelligence
- Learning styles
- Student engagement
- College readiness
- Career readiness
- Time management
- Communication
- Wellness and resilience
- Financial literacy
- Professional skills
- Day in the Life experiences
AI Assessment Builder
Create assessments and surveys that support your institution’s own initiatives.
- First-year experience
- Orientation
- Academic success
- Major readiness
- Internship readiness
- Capstone programs
- Alumni outcomes
- Employer feedback
- Course evaluations
- Student satisfaction
- Faculty development
- Custom scoring