EngineeringCAS application

A centralized application for graduate engineering programs.

EngineeringCAS is an intuitive, flexible application with real-time visual insights into application statuses, making it easier than ever to actively target your best-fit students.

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A graduate engineering enrollment application that helps you reach, engage, and enroll best-fit students.

EngineeringCAS is a game-changing solution that helps graduate engineering leaders:

  • Find more time and resources to focus your team on what matters.
  • Gain more exposure to drive enrollment outcomes.
  • Take more control over enrollment with less work.
  • Become part of a powerful community of graduate enrollment leaders.
  • Deliver a seamless applicant experience.

EngineeringCAS makes it all possible.

Join the only CAS for graduate engineering programs and see why programs like yours use EngineeringCAS for increased yield potential, breakthrough processing and support services, visual enrollment data insights, and marketing strategies.

Application Services

Find more time and resources to focus on what matters. EngineeringCAS combines highly customizable admissions management technology with processing services to streamline the submission and management of applications.

  • Applicant support
  • Document authentication & digitization

Marketing Services

Get more exposure to drive enrollment outcomes. EngineeringCAS increases your programs’ exposure, leverages outsourced marketing expertise, and visualizes trends to expand your applicant pool.

  • Inclusion in a global directory of programs like yours.
  • Timely data with applicant trend insights
  • Professional drive-to-apply campaigns
  • Global Advertising campaigns

Data Services

Take more control over enrollment—with less work. EngineeringCAS Enrollment Application delivers robust, customizable data management tools that save you time, money, and IT resources.


  • Customized data integration
  • Proven data management
  • Best-in-class data security and privacy
  • Affordability of implementation

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Community Benefits

Make more connections to your graduate enrollment community. EngineeringCAS facilitates new collaborations to drive mutual success for all participating schools and applicants.

  • Knowledge to empower individuals, institutions, and communities
  • Connections between people, technology, services, and information
  • Inspiration to ignite change in higher education
  • Resources to turn aspirations into tangible achievements
  • Support for institutions and their affiliated professions

Discover how EngineeringCAS elevates programs and empowers applicants.

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Participating Programs

For participating programs, the EngineeringCAS adds your school and programs to a graduate education marketplace, benefiting your admissions office by:


  • Driving awareness of all your graduate programs through a streamlined application process and communication tools that enable targeted, personalized communications to those interested in your program.
  • Decreasing time-to-decision by providing a processing team to scan transcripts and package application components as an extension of your staff.
  • Providing insight into enrollment trends and performance on your campus through robust analytics and reporting tools.
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Applicants

For applicants, EngineeringCAS offers a single application portal, which benefits applicants by:


  • Streamlining the process for researching and applying to multiple programs of interest.
  • Offering a modern application experience that guides them through the application process.
  • Providing 24/7 access to real-time application status updates.
  • Fee waivers for eligible applicants.

Explore the EngineeringCAS community.

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Expand your reach with EngineeringCAS.

Over 25,000 applications processed each cycle.

More than 100 programs for applicants to chose from.

Top-rated applicant experience with NPS scores above 70.

Hear from our clients.

Natacha Depaola Ph.D., Former Dean of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
EngineeringCAS makes perfect sense for us because we don’t want to be left behind. Since GEDC introduced EngineeringCAS to our international engineering community in Fall 2018, it became clear that EngineeringCAS would soon become the tool of choice for students around the world to learn more about—and apply to—graduate programs in engineering.
Natacha DaPaola Ph.D.
Former Dean of Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
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One of the most user-friendly platforms I have ever used! Using the EngineeringCAS System is more efficient.
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I like the fact that you can easily apply to another because most of your data is already stored. It is amazing.
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What applicants think about EngineeringCAS.

  • 83.77% of survey respondents indicated that applying to programs using a CAS was easier than applying to each program separately.
  • 86.07% of the respondents indicated that they would recommend EngineeringCAS to others who are applying to graduate engineering programs.
  • 4.20 out of 5 is the average score respondents gave EngineeringCAS in terms of the overall process.
  • 83.61% of the respondents rated EngineeringCAS as “easy” or “very easy” to use.

Advisory Board

EngineeringCAS’s success is driven in large part by the vision and insight of its Advisory Board members, all of whom have extensive on-campus graduate engineering experience as deans, program directors, and enrollment leaders from across the United States.

These engineering professionals provide strategic guidance with a focus on innovation and collaboration, and work with Liaison to drive and expand the EngineeringCAS vision.

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Frequently Asked Questions

EngineeringCAS™ is a Centralized Application Service (CAS™) that allows a student to apply to multiple graduate degree programs on one campus, or to multiple programs across multiple campuses, by submitting a single application for enrollment. The applicant is able to manage the entire process, including submission of supporting documentation, transcript(s) and recommendation requests, as well as answer additional unique questions asked by individual campuses and/or programs, including essays, personal statements, CVs/resumes or other documents of work samples. EngineeringCAS is provided by Liaison, the leader in application management for higher education. Liaison has powered Centralized Applications for nearly three decades and currently serves over 31,000 programs at more than 1,000 colleges and universities.

There are three types of partnerships associated with EngineeringCAS: engineering societies, institutions, and an advisory board. Liaison has strategic partnerships with many engineering societies. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has embraced the solution and has made EngineeringCAS available to all their member schools as a member benefit. We work closely with ASEE to bring awareness of EngineeringCAS and the many benefits of joining the community to deans, directors, admissions personnel and faculty.

We also have partnered with other engineering societies, like the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), who are bringing awareness of EngineeringCAS to their individual members, specifically undergraduate students of engineering who represent the pipeline to graduate schools of engineering.

The partnerships Liaison forms with engineering schools are critical to a successful EngineeringCAS. As more and more schools participate in the CAS, applicants have more choices. We view the relationship we have with each school as a true partnership.

Finally, Liaison has assembled an advisory board dedicated to EngineeringCAS. This board consists of deans, directors, and admission management from a diverse set of engineering schools. The board serves as the eyes and ears of engineering education for EngineeringCAS and helps us plan for the unique requirements of engineering enrollment.

Yes, more than 31,000 programs on over 1,000 college and university campuses leverage the same SaaS platform. Liaison manages more than 3,000,000 applications annually.

To optimize your use of EngineeringCAS, it should serve as the primary application for your programs. Secondary or supplemental applications that are useful for your individual workflow can be maintained.

That said, there are significant benefits for the institution in using EngineeringCAS as your primary application, including:

  • A single source for purview over all graduate program applications.
  • Customized application for each college and/or program.
  • Creation of dynamic application workflows in Liaison’s cutting-edge review and processing.
  • Reduction of effort to process and package applications.
  • Reduction in applicant email and phone support.
  • Reduction in your application processing.
  • A single data source to manage for integration to your CRM, SIS, and other systems.
  • Data for all graduate programs available from a single source.

Evidence from participating schools suggests programs that participate in a CAS may expect an overall increase in applications of 10% or more, but individual increases will likely vary.

Yes, EngineeringCAS provides applicants the ability to research and apply to multiple programs. Research suggests that, due to the competitive nature of admissions, 62% of prospective students already apply to multiple programs. In this regard, a CAS is a value-added service to the applicant and to the participating programs. However, applicants accessing EngineeringCAS via your website will be taken directly to your programs first. They would need to take an additional step to view other programs in EngineeringCAS.

Liaison encourages programs eligible to join affinity-based CASs to participate in the services provided by their professional associations. Liaison will work with institutions interested in EngineeringCAS to determine which programs are eligible for affinity-based CASs and which are a fit for EngineeringCAS. Your institution will have an overview and access to all data in EngineeringCAS and in all other CASs on campus.

Since EngineeringCAS provides administrative services, such as transcript collection and scanning, phone support, and application document collation, to all participating programs, EngineeringCAS may give you the opportunity to reallocate your resources. You will likely be able to move away from clerical and administrative tasks to more valuable endeavors such as recruitment, marketing and relationship building. We are aware of no situation where staff have been eliminated due to a CAS.

Not necessarily. The modest processing fee for EngineeringCAS applications in many instances can be offset by eliminating the redundancies that exist in today’s current model, such as transcript request fees, foreign credential evaluations, mailing fees, etc. Surveys of applicants repeatedly show that the benefits of applying through a CAS justify any fees associated with this service. In order to ensure access, EngineeringCAS will commit a portion of all application processing fees to an application fee waiver program in order to be certain no applicants are excluded.

You can still collect your current application fees. However, many institutions find that the cost offset of outsourcing the application management and document processing functions included in a CAS offering (scanning, letters of recommendation, applicant support, etc.) create additional opportunity to reclaim budget resources and free up staff to focus on more impactful enrollment projects and initiatives. Liaison will collect your application fee with the processing fee and dispatch the payment to your university, or you  can collect the application fee yourself.

EngineeringCAS does not make any admissions decisions. EngineeringCAS is simply a mechanism to gather the data that you need to make admissions decisions from applicants. EngineeringCAS will provide data and documents in a ready-to-review format as well as tools like rubric scoring, faculty evaluations, and others that can be used in the evaluation of the applications. The service will not interpret or evaluate the eligibility of any applicant. The selection and admission of all applicants is the sole prerogative of each college or department.

Liaison is committed to forming a partnership with participating campuses by providing planning, onboarding, training, and oversight. A training program and comprehensive customer service component will be significant parts of EngineeringCAS for your campus.

Participating schools need not change the current application workflow process nor purchase any special software to review applications. Through available application programming interface (API) tools, all applicant data can be imported into existing systems and processes. The intent is to minimize any impact to application reviewers. For more information, see the questions below regarding data integration and supported systems. For institutions wanting to enhance the current review and reporting process, all participating institutions will have access to WebAdMIT—a comprehensive application management tool provided at no cost.

EngineeringCAS is a comprehensive web service for the application, and WebAdMIT is a SaaS for programs to use for application configuration and management of the application, evaluation and/or exporting data and PDFs. The service will provide data and training materials in formats that can be used by current/legacy systems already in place. The advent of web-based technology allows for the rapid transfer of data in universal formats. Some schools participating in other CASs upload the CAS information into current systems, while others use the WebAdMIT software provided by the application service to review applications, then transfer the final data to their SIS.

Yes, EngineeringCAS is CRM agnostic. Liaison provides WebAdMIT to review and evaluate the application, as well as communicate with the applicant. The program can choose to use it and transfer data to the CRM, simultaneously use WebAdMIT and the CRM for communication, or bypass WebAdMIT entirely for review and communication with the applicant. Our integration specialist will consult with you on the right decision for your programs.

EngineeringCAS is configured so as soon as an applicant has expressed interest in a particular program, the institution will have the ability to contact the person. The institution can decide when to contact the applicant—right away to start recruiting, at some point during the application process, and/or when waiting for the application to be completed.

EngineeringCAS will not slow down your application process. In fact, most programs will realize an increase in speed to completion and packaging of the application for review. Transcripts received by Liaison are validated, scanned (if print), and appended to the submitted application on the same day, then made available to enter your unique workflow process.

Data can be retrieved electronically on demand at any time. Additionally, exports can be scheduled to automatically pass data to your CRM service and/or SIS.

International students will apply in the same manner as students in the U.S. Liaison, the provider of EngineeringCAS, has a partnership with World Education Services (WES) and ECE, the leaders in international credential evaluations, to manage/verify transcripts from foreign institutions; these evaluations can be brought into the application with the push of a button. The institution also has the choice to partner with another transcript evaluation provider or evaluate the transcript in-house. Evaluations, other than WES or ECE can be uploaded to the application.

Technical Questions

All CRM, SIS, and ERP systems tailored for institutions of higher education have the ability to import external applicant data via one or more configurable tools native to each system. EngineeringCAS’s “Export Manager” tool provides agnostic, simple-to-configure exports of any subset of applicant data an ERP/SIS system needs, filtered by any criteria schools may choose to apply. These exports are available in numerous formats to simplify the import process for the school. The most common systems used by our university clients include Banner™, Datatel™, PeopleSoft™, and Jenzabar™, among others.

Because there is no standard, pre-packaged solution that can perfectly serve the nuances of all schools’ individual customized ERP implementations, each institution is best positioned to execute the final import of CAS data into their SIS or ERP system. That said, given the widespread presence of at least one CAS at most universities, it is very likely that a similar integration has already been done somewhere on your campus, and we can connect you with the professionals who have acquired this level of expertise. Liaison’s focus is to make exporting data from WebAdMIT seamless, with several user- and IT-friendly formats, so developing an individualized solution to integrate CAS data with your school’s ERP or SIS system should be relatively straightforward.

Liaison’s WebAdMIT admissions toolkit provides several utilities and data formats that can be used to import data into an SIS or ERP system. These tools give institutions the ability to:

  • Create files with only the fields required for use in their integration, rather than adapting to an obscure proprietary data format.
  • Sequence fields exactly as demanded by the ERP system’s tools.
  • Apply several commonly-used transformations (e.g., date formats) on data to simplify importing.
  • Limit the applicants included in the integration by any criteria required.
  • Run the export as frequently or infrequently as needed.
  • Output the files into numerous formats, such as comma-delimited, fixed-width and Excel.
  • Schedule exports to run at fixed times and access these exports for download via API. Institutions that have multiple schools or programs participating in a CAS can typically leverage expertise gained during the initial configuration of ERP or SIS tools, making subsequent integrations for additional programs hosted within a CAS much simpler.

There are two main options for performing the integration. The institution’s IT team, who is generally very knowledgeable about their SIS or ERP system, can use the data definitions in the Custom Export Layout file provided within WebAdMIT to configure the system’s tool to import the CAS data. Alternatively, a school can contract with a third-party vendor to handle the data import processes for them, as these generally only need to be configured once and undergo light maintenance in future years.

Our WebAdMIT support team has helped many universities in performing data integration between our systems and a variety of ERP or SIS systems, and they are more than happy to work with you and your IT staff. For institutions that would prefer a turnkey solution, Liaison works with SSD Technology Partners/Axiom, who are specialists in performing Banner integrations of CAS data. If you are interested in retaining SSD’s services, please contact Lisa Detwiler at ldetwiler@ssdel.com.

Many schools and programs find the integration of CAS data with their ERP system to be straightforward, but Liaison’s team is available to provide support and guidance if necessary. If you have questions or want to share feedback, please contact our WebAdMIT Support Team at WebAdMITSupport@liaisonedu.com.

WebAdMIT’s application programming interface (API) will provide IT teams with the following capabilities:

  • Export Manager API—Run, download and process user-created data exports from the Export Manager programmatically, enabling true automation no longer dependent upon manually running export files.
  • Document Export Manager API—Automate batch downloads and indexing of applicant documents (such as the full application PDF) for university record keeping and integration.
  • Custom Fields API—Enable two-way integration with an SIS by automating the writing of data from an outside source back into WebAdMIT’s custom fields.
  • For more information, visit WebAdMIT Developer.

Liaison powers over 40 unique CASs, each serving the application and enrollment needs of a specific educational discipline. The following is a partial list of Liaison-powered CASs:

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  • OTCAS/Occupational Therapy
  • PharmCAS/Pharmacy
  • PSYCAS/Psychology
  • PTCAS/Physical Therapy
  • SocialWorkCAS/Social Work
  • SOPHAS/Public Health
  • VMCAS/Veterinary Medicine