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GRC for higher education, one program for every campus mandate.

A single university juggles student records, financial-aid data, campus health, payments, and federally funded research, each with its own regulator. Compyl maps one control library across FERPA, the GLBA Safeguards Rule, HIPAA, PCI, and NIST 800-171, so a decentralized campus runs one connected program.

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Campus program coverageLive

Access controls + MFA enforced

Source: Okta / SISEvidence Health: 97%Refreshed 4m ago

↓ ONE CONTROL COVERS MANY CAMPUS PROGRAMS

FERPAStudent records

GLBA SafeguardsFinancial aid · 314.4

HIPAACampus health / research

PCI DSS 4.0Tuition payments

NIST SP 800-171Federally funded research

NIST CSFPR.AC

Collect once · cover the whole campus

What does compliance for higher education require?

Colleges and universities face an unusually broad compliance load: FERPA for student education records, the GLBA Safeguards Rule for financial-aid data (now enforced by the Department of Education), HIPAA for campus health centers and clinical research, PCI DSS for tuition and payments, and NIST SP 800-171 / CMMC for federally funded research. Add state breach laws and GDPR for international students. Compyl maps one control library across every program from a single, connected platform.

The challenge

Why GRC is harder in higher education

Many overlapping mandates

One institution must satisfy FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, and NIST 800-171 at the same time, each historically owned by a different office.

Decentralized departments & data

Colleges, labs, the registrar, financial aid, and the health center each hold sensitive data, making consistent controls hard to prove.

Federal research grant security

Federally funded and DoD-related research brings NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC obligations that put grant funding at risk if unmet.

How Compyl helps

One platform for the whole campus

Map one control library across every campus program

Define controls once and cross-map them to FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, and NIST 800-171, so evidence collected once proves compliance for every office.

No duplicate work across departments or mandates.
Each new program reuses controls you already have.

Encryption + access controls

pulled automatically from your stack

↳ ONE EVIDENCE ITEM · 5 PROGRAMS

FERPA RecordsGLBA 314.4HIPAA §164.312PCI DSS 8.4800-171 3.1 / 3.5

Unify a decentralized campus

Bring the registrar, financial aid, the health center, and research labs into one control library and evidence base, so the institution proves compliance consistently instead of office by office.

One connected program across every department.
Surface gaps before an audit or grant review.

Program coverage

continuous monitoring

FERPA: records accessCovered

GLBA: financial aidCovered

800-171: research enclaveIn progress

Protect federally funded research

Stand up and prove the NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC controls that federal and DoD research requires, so compliance never puts grant funding at risk.

Map and evidence NIST 800-171 / CMMC for research.
Quantify risk in dollars for cabinet and board reporting.

Third-party & research vendor risk

vendors touching campus data

Cloud research enclaveCritical

SIS / ERP vendorMedium

EdTech SaaSLow

Coverage

Frameworks that govern higher education

All cross-mapped to one control library, explore each, or see the full library of 70+.

FERPA GLBA Safeguards Rule HIPAA PCI DSS NIST SP 800-171 CMMC NIST CSF GDPR View all 70+ →

Why Compyl

Built for the way campus GRC actually works

One source of truth

Controls, evidence, risk, and vendors in one connected system, across every regulator you answer to.

Continuous, not point-in-time

Evidence refreshes automatically and is scored for health, so you're audit-ready every day of the year.

Agentic AI, human approved

AI drafts evidence, maps controls, and triages risk; your experts approve every decision.

Higher Education FAQ

Common questions

Higher education institutions face FERPA for student records, the GLBA Safeguards Rule for financial-aid data, HIPAA for campus health and clinical research, PCI DSS for tuition and payments, and NIST SP 800-171 / CMMC for federally funded research, plus state breach laws and GDPR for international students. Compyl maps one control library across all of them.

The Department of Education now requires institutions handling federal student-aid data to meet the GLBA Safeguards Rule. Compyl maps your controls to each Safeguards requirement and continuously collects the evidence, so financial-aid data protection is provable on demand rather than assembled before a review.

Yes. For federally funded and DoD-related research, Compyl helps you stand up, map, and continuously evidence the NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC controls a research enclave requires, so compliance protects rather than jeopardizes grant funding.

Yes. Compyl brings the registrar, financial aid, the health center, and research labs into one control library and evidence base. Because programs like FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, and 800-171 share many underlying controls, evidence collected once satisfies multiple mandates across the institution.

GRC Your Way

See Compyl mapped to your campus programs

One control library, every regulator, continuous evidence, and agentic AI that removes the busywork, with your experts in control.

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