September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

Higher Education SIS: AI Visibility Ranking

Student information systems for colleges and universities covering enrollment, records, registration, and student services. Right now, Anthology Student is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 48 and the #1 spot in 6% of answers. Head-to-head: Anthology Student vs Workday Student →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Higher Ed SIS is a genuine two-brand race with no clear leader.

Workday Student and Ellucian Banner sit within 4 points of each other, and neither has locked up consistent first-pick behavior across all three models. Ellucian Banner actually wins the first-pick rate at 26%, nearly double Workday Student's 15%, even though Workday holds the higher overall score. Gemini is the wild card that scrambles the rankings: it scores Banner and Colleague below 18 while lifting Workday Student and Populi to near-equal footing at 45.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Anthology Student	48 ±4	69%	4.2	6%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #5 Gemini #1
2	Workday Student	47 ±5.1	60%	3.2	15%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #2
3	Jenzabar	44 ±5.1	69%	4.7	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #4
4	Ellucian Banner	42 ±6.6	46%	1.8	26%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #6
5	Ellucian Colleague	36 ±6.4	42%	2.4	7%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #2 Gemini #9
6	Populi	31 ±4.3	46%	4.3	18%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #6 Gemini #3
7	Ellucian	18 ±6.1	22%	2.8	7%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #10 Gemini #5
8	Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions	17 ±5.5	22%	3.4	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #7 Gemini #12
9	Workday	8 ±5.2	10%	3.3	1%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #11 Gemini #10
10	Oracle Student Cloud	7 ±3.1	10%	3.7	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude Gemini #8
11	Oracle	6 ±4.3	8%	4.0	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #12 Gemini #11
12	openSIS	5 ±0.7	10%	5.6	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #13 Gemini #13
13	Banner	5 ±1.9	6%	1.8	4%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #8 Gemini
14	Orbund	5 ±2.5	7%	3.8	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude Gemini #7
15	Okta	5 ±3.3	6%	2.8	0%	ChatGPT Claude #9 Gemini #14

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (4.4), Colleague (3.8), Microsoft Entra ID (3.8), Unit4 Student Management (3.2), CampusNexus (3.2). 85 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 53/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.