Net Price Calculator

Effectively communicate affordability. Provide an intuitive and compelling user experience. Generate inquiries, create engagement, and build commitment. And do it all with the industry-leading net price calculator from College Raptor.

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FAFSA Simplification ready

College Raptor’s NPC now uses Student Aid Index (SAI) in place of Estimated Family Contribution (EFC). This includes the ability to estimate SAI for students who have not yet completed the 2024-25 FAFSA, along with the option to enter SAI if known. Updated Pell Grant calculations are also included, allowing you to easily deliver accurate and compliant net price estimates.

Mobile-friendly

Ensuring that your online forms are mobile-friendly is a necessity in today’s higher education landscape. With the majority of prospective students and parents are using smartphones or tablets for college research, the expectations for responsive design are high. College Raptor’s net price calculator was built with this need in mind and is designed to offer a flawless user experience across all devices.

Seamless website integration

Your net price calculator is an important way to communicate affordability, so make sure you own that message. Unlike other providers that take students to their website, College Raptor’s NPC seamlessly integrates into your website, matching your exact colors and design and embedding into any of your web pages with only a few lines of code.

Fully customizable

Each institution is unique and your net price calculator should be too. With College Raptor, you can fully customize your NPC so that it works for all prospective students and accurately calculates individual financial aid awarding strategies. Just send us your costs and awarding parameters and we’ll deliver a net price calculator tailor-made for your institution.

Financial data entry options

College Raptor’s NPC provides students and families with the most flexibility when entering financial data, making your calculator an important resource at any stage in the enrollment cycle. More options mean more completions, better affordability messaging, and increased engagement.

Integrated lead generation

With College Raptor, your NPC becomes a valuable source of highly qualified inquiries. Users can send their contact information and all the data submitted in the calculator with one click. Inquiries can be delivered via SFTP, on-demand portal access, or automated email reports.

We asked financial aid and enrollment leaders across the country to evaluate the most important components of a Net Price Calculator. See how our calculator service stacked up in each component and what a few of our partners had to say.

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99.2% of a client survey responders said they would recommend College Raptor’s NPC to other campuses

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Testimonials

“We had used another product for four years and College Raptor is, by far, easier to update, much more cost-effective and user-friendly! College Raptor has been great to work with!”

Mary Gazal, Director of Financial Aid

Saint Vincent College (PA)

“College Raptor has been so easy and friendly to work with. I was so impressed by the assistance and flexibility with our initial setup, and have enjoyed the ease of the continued maintenance ever since. Best decision we ever made!”

Vinny Vincent-Dunn, Director of Financial Aid

Franklin College (IN)

“Our NPC not only fulfills our requirement with the Dept of Ed, but allows us to have a great marketing tool to help our prospective students and families with their admission and financial decisions.”

Melissa Dingmann, Director of Financial Aid

Minnesota State University at Moorhead

“College Raptor’s NPC is a useful tool our institutional recruitment tool kit. Both our undergraduate admissions team and athletics coaches utilize our net price calculator to help students and families understand how affordable the University of Mary is. It has also been a great tool to share with families.”

Karrie Huber, Director of Financial Aid

University of Mary (ND)

“College Raptor changed the way we view our net price calculator. Rather than a necessary tool, our NPC supports our search efforts, enhances our ability to communicate with families, and allows us to identify potential financial aid obstacles before official awarding season.”

Adam Heinitz, Director of Admissions

Augustana University

“The service provided by our representatives at College Raptor is second to none. The responsiveness received from requests we’ve made, depth of information provided, and overall customer service and connection with us as their clients has been top notch.”

Shawn Helmbolt, Director of Admissions

South Dakota State University

“Integration and implementation was very easy. Everyone that I’ve communicated with at College Raptor has been friendly, knowledgeable, and very helpful.”

Jeremy Treme, Director of Financial Aid

Louisiana College

“I absolutely love the features this software provides to our students and their families. College Raptor is a real pleasure to work with.”

Mark Bauer, Director of Financial Aid

Martin Luther College

“College Raptor has always been proactive in reaching out to assist and making sure the product is utilized to its full potential.”

Nate Blanchard, Director of Financial Aid

Neumont College of Computer Science

“College Raptor’s responsiveness in launching our NPC was second to none. I’ve never worked with a third party provider that wanted to get the product live so quickly, while balancing quality of deliverable assets.”

Jonathan Bahr Vice President for Enrollment & Marketing

Spring Arbor University

“The College Raptor staff have been super responsive to our needs as tweaks to our NPC need to be made. They have been a pleasure to work with.”

Evan Wilson, Dean of Admission and Student Financial Services

Illinois College

“I am over the moon happy with the service and responsiveness of the folks at College Raptor. The best part is they do all of the setup and modifications. I have worked with other larger vendors who provided a dismal lack of service and concern for their users, and required the school to do all of the setup and annual modifications.”

Stephanie Rovello, Assistant Director of Financial Aid

Stony Brook University

“We appreciate how responsive and flexible College Raptor has been to work with.”

Pam Perry, Director of Financial Aid

Cornell College

“Very easy to work with, and they are very efficient in getting changes made.”

Joel Wenger, Associate Director of Financial Aid

Purdue University

“We are very pleased with the look and usability of the College Raptor Net Price Calculator. Updating each year is now so much easier than with our previous calculator.”

Susan Young, Director of Student Financial Aid

Bob Jones University

“College Raptor’s calculator has been a great addition to our recruitment toolkit. In addition to their great customer service, the calculator alone has demonstrated how affordable a USD education can be and generated quality leads for our recruitment team.”

Scott Pohlson, Vice President for Enrollment, Marketing & University Relations

University of South Dakota

Do you have any questions? Contact our sales team by email at [email protected] or by phone at (319) 849-7101.