NYU will phase out Albert over the next two years, replacing its course registration, degree progress and academic advising systems with Stellic, an online platform used by several other universities.
University registrar Elizabeth Kienle-Granzo said at Thursday’s University Senate meeting that the new system aims to address Albert’s fragmented structure and will be implemented universitywide starting fall 2026, though students will still use Albert for course registration until fall 2027. The program will suggest course schedules and allow students to track degree progress in reference to their existing and planned course enrollments.
“Students go to one place to see their degree requirements, another place to see their course offerings, another place to do the academic planning and then the regretfully named ‘Shopping Cart’ for registration,” Kienle-Granzo said at the meeting. “Stellic really comes to the table to modernize that experience for our students, doing all of that work through the lens of their degree requirements.”
Upon logging in to Stellic, students will see overviews of their degree progress, which courses they still need to take and when they’re expected to graduate, associate registrar Kenneth Drake said. If students are interested in adding a major or minor, the system will show exactly how it would affect their schedules and flag conflicts with mandated courses or prerequisites. They can drag and drop different courses into their calendars, submit preferences for class times and set aside time blocks for non-class work to improve Stellic’s automated schedule suggestions.
NYU began working with Stellic eight years ago and developed official plans for its rollout last fall. The system was founded at Carnegie Mellon University and has been adopted by Columbia University and Cornell University, among several other schools.
Around 1,300 students at the Stern School of Business and the School of Professional Studies are currently piloting the program. Starting in fall 2026, Stellic will be rolled out in phases across schools, initially offering degree audits, course planning and processing of class exemptions before adding course registration.
“It’s more intuitive and it’s a more holistic approach to academic planning,” Kienle-Granzo said. “All of this work is intended to help support and reinforce our strategic pathways around the time of graduation.”
Kienle-Granzo added that NYU IT is currently working with the registrar to ensure that all information in the NYU Bulletins transfers cleanly, and that students and advisers receive the same information. Stellic also provides advisers with a centralized dashboard to view student progress, manage exceptions and run reports identifying students who may need additional support.
Earlier this semester, administrators introduced a program responding to calls for NYU to make academic advising more accessible. Members of the Student Government Assembly had proposed a separate collaboration to create a more “cohesive, responsive and personalized” student experience, saying that current systems stretch advisers too thin.
“Everything is disconnected,” Steinhardt senior Tony Dong, who drafted a letter of support for the proposed collaboration, said. “I’ve never personally used Stellic before, but if Stellic can construct them all together, it’s really going to be a significant improvement in student experiences and university life.”
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