Okta for Education

Less on-prem IAM means more resources for your mission.
Cloud identity for students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

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Featured Customer: City Year

City Year puts the focus on students, instead of passwords & provisioning

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Okta helps educational institutions around the world run more efficiently.

Reduce IT Costs

Delivered 100% as a service, Okta eliminates the unnecessary maintenance, operations and security costs of on-prem IAM while improving your ability to automate, scale and secure your institution.

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Accelerate Cloud Adoption

Speed up your cloud adoption with a scalable future-proof solution that connects to your existing infrastructure and solves identity once and for all. Okta is designed to connect all of your users: faculty, staff, students and alumni to anything with security that doesn’t sacrifice ease of use.

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Automate Student Lifecycle from Application through Graduation

Okta makes it easy to offer your students lifetime accounts. Onboard new recruits, promote them to student access, and then graduate them to alumni status with differentiated access rights throughout.

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Increase Efficiency with Cloud IAM

Give IT back time spent on help desk tickets and manual integration and provisioning work. Okta offers automation and efficiency so your IT team can spend more time on valuable strategic work.

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Key Okta features for education

Easy integration to your existing federation tools

Okta’s comprehensive standards support including SAML, Open ID Connect, and WS-Fed makes it easy to integrate into your existing infrastructure like Shibboleth.