Compete on cost. Attract more students.
Meadow's modern, mobile net price calculator drives more applications and enrollment by eliminating sticker shock.
Sticker shock stops students from applying
Most families rule a school out on published cost before they see a net price. Show them what they'd actually pay, and far more will consider applying.
of students say cost is a top factor when deciding whether to apply to a school
of students choose colleges based on the financial aid experience
of low-income students don’t enroll due to complex aid that is hard to understand
From the first estimate to the admissions list
Meadow builds your branded calculator and connects you with the families who use it.
Show families what they’ll actually pay
Clear, accurate, and compliant estimates in under five minutes, English or Spanish. Fully branded and built on your cost of attendance, your institutional aid, and your state grants.
Turn every estimate into a lead
Admissions gets new leads every hour, enriched with demographic and financial aid information, and sent straight to your CRM.
See who's considering you
Where prospective students live, what they'd pay, what programs they are interested in, their GPA and test scores, how much aid they'd qualify for, and where they are in the process.
Live the next day. No IT required
Send us your cost of attendance and aid rules. Meadow builds your calculator, you review it, and it goes live the day after you approve it. Meadow keeps it current with updates whenever you need them.
Configure
Send your cost of attendance and aid rules. Meadow builds your calculator.
Review
Test your calculator before launch. Meadow works with you until it's right.
Launch
Go live the next day.
Maintain
Meadow updates your calculator every aid year and keeps it compliant….and current with your state and institutional grants
Much more than a compliance checkbox
students served
estimate accuracy
increase in applications
CMU used Meadow's NPC to drive a 42% increase in enrollment
"We decided - we are going to do this. We have to do this. Because if we don’t do something, too many families are going to be impacted. Too many students just won’t go to college."
Lindsey Campbell
Executive Director of Financial Aid, Advising, and Enrollment at Colorado Mesa University
Ask them, not us
The University of Texas at Austin
Senior Director of Financial Aid
Auburn University at Montgomery
Colorado Mesa University
Diana Minor
Financial Aid
California State University, San Bernardino
The Pennsylvania State University
Grand Valley State University
Austin Peay State University
Director of Financial Aid
California Lutheran University
Nightingale College
Ashlie McCallon
Associate Director of Financial Aid Services
California State University, Monterey Bay
Ivy Tech Community College
Security and trust engineered for higher ed
Established safeguards protect your institution’s data — and the students behind it.
SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited every year, with continuous monitoring in between
HECVAT
Pre-completed higher ed vendor assessment toolkit
PCI DSS compliant
Secure payment processing that meets the highest standard for handling card data
FERPA compliant
Protected access controls and data handling for users and agents
From the first estimate to the last balance
Meadow covers the whole financial relationship with a student, from the first cost estimate before they apply to the last balance after they've left.
Engage students across the full financial lifecycle
Frequently asked questions
Yes. It meets the net price calculator requirements of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and Meadow updates it every aid year so it stays compliant.
Meadow's calculator uses your institutional aid and your state's grants and scholarships, works on any phone in English or Spanish, and is maintained by Meadow every year. It also provides leads to your admissions office and a robust dashboard so you can understand who is using your NPC.
Meadow's estimates are 95% accurate. In fact, some institutions choose to use our estimates to provide conditional offer letters because of the high degree of accuracy.
Yes. Meadow builds your calculator on your cost of attendance and your institutional and state aid criteria. We create custom questions for each school so that your unique aid is reflected in a student’s net price.
Their estimated net price, with a breakdown of grants, scholarships and loans, plus clear next steps such as applying for admission, applying for aid and completing the FAFSA. Students can save their estimate and come back to it as well as send a copy to your institution.
Across our schools, an average of 74% of students who start the calculator finish it, and 80% finish in 4 minutes or less. We attribute that to the mobile interface, an answer guide that explains each question, and branching logic that only asks students what applies to them.
Yes. The calculator, answer guide and glossary are all available in English and Spanish.
Yes. It meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards, and Meadow provides a VPAT.
You set the cadence but for most schools new leads arrive every hour, enriched with demographic and financial aid information and all of their responses. Connect Slate or another CRM to receive them there directly.
Admissions insights show where students live, what they'd pay, the programs they're interested in, GPA and test scores, how much aid they'd qualify for, and where they are in the process. You can also see which scholarships, loans and next steps they click.
Most schools launch in under a week, with no IT project. You send your cost of attendance and aid rules, Meadow builds the calculator, you review it, and it goes live the day after you approve it.
Yes. Meadow updates your calculator every aid year, and you can request changes whenever your costs or aid change.
No. The net price calculator, lead generation and admissions insights work on their own.
Yes. Meadow is SOC 2 Type II audited, FERPA compliant and has a pre-completed HECVAT. Documentation is in our trust center: https://trust.meadowfi.com/