Airtable for education

Centralize your education workflows and scale what works

One no-code platform to run student services, strategic planning, and grant tracking—powered by AI purpose-built for education.

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Why Airtable

Support institutional operations at scale

Bring all your education workflows into one workspace, using AI to optimize resources, track student progress, and automate task management to meet your school’s unique needs.

Balance workloads, prevent burnout

Improve resource allocation with smarter faculty scheduling and classroom utilization–so support goes where it’s needed most.

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Connect funding to facility

Automated matching links grant opportunities to faculty expertise and research interests.

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Personalize student engagement

Intelligent segmentation personalizes outreach across student, alumni, and community populations for targeted engagement.

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Use cases

Your academic, student, and admin workflows, all in one place

Innovate faster, reduce administrative burden, and focus on what matters most—student success.

Streamline academic programs


Improve curriculums

Seamlessly align curriculums to accreditation standards.

Optimize resources

Access instant workload balancing and classroom utilization. recommendations

Get real-time visibility

Track student progression, academic milestones, and admin project progress across departments in real-time.

Optimize your grants

Automate compliance checking

Benchmark against funding requirements with real-time alerts.

Match funding to faculty

Connect funding opportunities to faculty expertise and research interests for smarter grant strategy.

Track research outcomes

Assess impact across the grant lifecycle with institutional performance metrics.

Enhance learning outcomes

Personalize outreach

Intelligently segment and target across student, alumni, and community populations.

Automate engagement

Tailor campaigns to every stakeholder.

Strengthen community partnerships

Match partners with relevant programs and opportunities.

More ways to use Airtable in your learning environment

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Facility and asset management

Automate scheduling and maintenance tracking to optimize space utilization and keep operations running smoothly.

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Compliance monitoring

Track regulatory requirements with automated alerts and audit trails that ensure institutional governance standards.

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Marketing campaigns

Identify funding opportunities and track research outcomes with AI-powered matching and impact assessment tools.

AI Plays and templates

Real-world AI use cases with real results

Start experimenting with workflows you can deploy right now.

Manage projects and tasks at scale

Integrations

Integrate critical workflows

Unify student information, academic programs, and operations. Airtable customers connect Workday Student, PeopleSoft, Canvas, and Blackboard Learn.

How Airtable helps real-world education leaders

"Airtable gave us at least an extra week of programming each semester."

Matt Gira, Director of Student Programming

Yale

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30 minutes

to approve grants instead of seven days

"We needed a flexible way to centralize data and improve collaboration across teams. Airtable gave us that visibility while integrating seamlessly with our existing systems."

Blessing Nuga, Senior Manager of Department Administration

Teachers College, Columbia University

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“With Airtable, we’ve transformed how we track and support students. The ability to integrate PeopleSoft data and automate manual processes has been a game-changer.”

Emma Battles Guetter, EU Student Services Coordinator

CSUCI

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5x

time reduction for processing applicants

Ready to unstick your education operations?

Frequently asked questions

Airtable provides enterprise-grade security with SOC 2 Type II compliance, field-level permissions, and audit logs. Our AI models are specifically trained for educational environments with built-in FERPA understanding, and no student information is retained by model providers or used for training.

Yes, Airtable connects with 1,000+ apps through native integrations and our robust API. Many educational institutions sync with SIS platforms, LMS systems, and administrative databases to create unified workflows without abandoning the tools and methodologies they already know.

It may be possible to obtain a pricing discount on our Business and Enterprise Scale plans, but a discussion with a Sales representative is required.

Learn more about our discount policy for the Team plan, available for non-profit agencies.

Most teams start seeing value within days, not months. Our educational templates, user-friendly project management tools, and intuitive interface mean your teams can begin organizing current programs and initiatives immediately, then gradually build more sophisticated workflows during natural academic breaks.

Airtable comes with all the fundamental tools education teams need today, and for future projects to stay agile. It grows with your needs—add unlimited collaborators, create new workflows on the fly, and onboard temporary staff instantly. No waiting for IT approvals or complex project setup—just invite people and they're productive immediately.

Beyond time savings and cost reduction, Airtable helps you measure what matters most in the education sector: faster program delivery, improved student satisfaction, better compliance rates, and enhanced institutional collaboration. Many clients see 20-30% improvement in operational efficiency within their first semester.

Airtable deploys in hours instead of the months required by traditional student information systems, enabling project teams to accelerate project execution with no-code customization that eliminates vendor dependency. Unlike generic project management tools, Airtable offers education-specific templates for problem-solving across hiring, program review, and grant management—with real-time timeline tracking, built-in compliance features, and support for both in-person and remote learning environments. Where specialized education software creates disconnected silos requiring expensive integration, Airtable provides a single AI-native platform that adapts to unique institutional workflows and enables effective project management across departments at a fraction of the cost.

Airtable is committed to helping you meet your Accessibility Compliance requirements. Contact our education sales team for a copy of our VPAT and accessibility roadmap.