For districts, networks, and college access organizations
Naviance gets students to graduation. Overgrad stays with them after.
If your team is judged on where graduates enroll and whether they stay, planning software alone will not show you that.
What happens after graduation
Naviance supports millions of students up to graduation day. After that the record goes quiet.
This comparison reflects what each product emphasizes, based on public information. What a school actually gets depends on how it is configured.
One student record, planning through completion.
Overgrad covers the college planning your counselors already do, and keeps the same record going after graduation, so someone can reach a student who is about to drop.
What Naviance does well
Naviance is the standard for high school college and career planning, and it earned that.
- PowerBuddy AI helps with college matching, scholarship search, and recommendation letters
- Work-based learning comes with a large catalog of career programs
- PowerSchool integration is native for districts already in that ecosystem
- Alumni Tracker pulls National Student Clearinghouse data for reporting
If your work ends at graduation, Naviance is a good choice. It was never built to keep working with students after they leave, and for plenty of schools that is fine.
What Overgrad adds
For teams measured on what happens after students leave.
Reach students after they leave
Alumni data tools report what already happened. Overgrad turns the same data into a task for a real person, in time to do something about it.
- Alerts when a student stops attending
- Two-way texting with alumni
- Case management for persistence coaching
- Transfer and re-enrollment tracking
Clearinghouse data without the manual pull
Overgrad syncs National Student Clearinghouse records on a schedule and turns them into alerts and tasks, so the data reaches the person who can use it.
- Enrollment updated automatically
- Persistence checked every term
- Completion tracked through the credential
- Employment outcomes where the data exists
Track every path a graduate takes
College is one outcome. Overgrad tracks apprenticeships, trades, military service, and going straight to work with the same care as four-year enrollment.
- Apprenticeship and trade programs
- Military enlistment
- Employment outcomes where available
- Work-based learning hours
Report on finishing, not only starting
Enrollment is a milestone. Finishing is the result. Overgrad tracks persistence and completion across every pathway, by school and by cohort.
- Persistence and completion by cohort
- Time to credential
- Comparison across schools
- Reports your board can read
Side by side
| Capability | Naviance | Overgrad |
|---|---|---|
| High school college planning | Industry leader | Full coverage |
| Career exploration | Large program catalog | Supported |
| Persistence and completion | Not the focus | Enrollment, persistence, and employment |
| Alumni data collection | Alumni Tracker | Clearinghouse sync |
| Reaching alumni who stop out | Outside its scope | Alerts and workflows |
| Employment outcomes | Not the focus | Where the data exists |
Which one fits
Naviance works if:
- Your work ends on graduation day
- You need college and career exploration for current students
- You are already in the PowerSchool ecosystem
- Alumni data is something you report, not something you act on
Overgrad works if:
- Someone on your team is responsible for graduates
- You reach alumni who stop attending or transfer
- You report persistence and completion, not only enrollment
- Your students take paths other than a four-year college
The question to answer: does your work end on graduation day, or does someone on your team still owe that student something in November?
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