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Graduate Systems Management

Overview Graduate Enrollment Management Services (GEMS) is a suite of enterprise applications and tools that supports a graduate school’s administrative processes, from academic program inquiry to student matriculation.
Available To Departments, Prospective Students, New/Incoming Students
Benefits GEMS provides industry benchmark enrollment management services and enables graduate schools to transfer data on prospective students and applicants directly to IS&T central systems.
Key Features
  • Direct client services: provided for graduate applicants (online application), recommenders, graduate admissions personnel, application reviewers, and prospective students (inquiry)
  • Supporting services: integration with internal BU services, including Early-Bird Registration (account provisioning), ISSO (international student data collection), Financial Aid, and Cashier (application fees)
  • External services: integration with third-party systems (centralized application services, EMBARK), and external testing services (ETS – GRE and TOEFL, tentative release fall 2010)
  • Yearly maintenance releases to meet changing business process requirements of clients
Requirements Restrictive functions based on business requirements of the client (admissions personnel, application reviewers, registration)
Cost No charge
Getting Started
  • Academic units requesting implementation of GEMS for their unit should use the IS&T Application Services Request Form.
  • Applicants using the public face of the application process are supported by context sensitive help within the applications.