Built by the University of Pennsylvania, guided by Registrar & student needs
Leverage our education expertise to speed up your registration process and minimize the workload on your admin staff.
Built by the University of Pennsylvania, guided by Registrar & student needs
Leverage our education expertise to speed up your registration process and minimize the workload on your admin staff.
Schedule Scout optimizes every course registration for fairness and efficiency.
Schedule Scout optimizes every course registration for fairness and efficiency.
HOW IT STARTED
The Course Match algorithm was conceived by a consortium of researchers including Eric Budish, Gerard Cachon, Judd Kessler, and Abe Othman as a solution for the University of Pennsylvania in 2013, inspired by a desire for a fairer and simpler student registration process.
We are guided by registrar & student needs.
BUILDING FOR SUCCESS
Between 2013 and 2017, University of Pennsylvania students and staff saw tremendous benefits from the new registration platform.
Outside schools also heard of the success and inquired if they could implement the same platform.
SCALING UP
In 2017, Cognomos Inc. was created to share the Course Match algorithm with additional schools. The platform, initially named Course Match (after the algorithm), launched to serve institutions throughout the world.
In 2023, the platform was rebranded as Schedule Scout, powered by Course Match.
Schedule Scout optimizes every course registration for fairness and efficiency. It’s a direct application of market design — the field of economics that was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2012.
Integrations
SIS
First-class read/write API and simple data load/access.
Single Sign-on
Native Shibboleth/SAML support with email-based user accounts as fallback
Security
Built from the ground up to protect your students, meet regulatory compliance, and exceed the most stringent higher ed security expectations
Support
A dedicated point of contact guides your team at each stage, from evaluation to post-deployment.
OUR CORE TEAM
Eric Budish
Director
Professor at the University of Chicago
Inventor of the Schedule Scout mechanism
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Alec Lamon
Director
Research IT Head at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Mohr
Chief Executive Officer
EdTech Enthusiast & Investor
Wharton MBA
Colleen O’Neill
Director
COO and CFO at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Abe Othman
Director and Founding CTO
Creator of the Schedule Scout algorithm
