Placemat follows every student from enrollment to hire, keeps your accreditor’s placement math current all year, and tells you exactly how many more placements each cohort needs.
Built for institutions that report placement rates to an accrediting body:
Simplified illustration. Placemat applies your accreditor’s exact formula, including its exclusions and timing.
Get this for every cohortMatching enrollments, withdrawals, completions and hires by hand is slow, and every merged cell is a chance for error. By the time someone notices a group will miss its minimum, the reporting period is already over.
Placemat keeps the calculation current all year, with the same criteria each accreditor uses, and warns you early enough to act.
One platform for student tracking, employer relationships, job openings and accreditation reporting.
Before the period ends, see which groups won’t reach the required placement rate and how many more placements close the gap.
Sample data. The amber marker is the required rate.
Calculated with your accreditor’s own criteria and exported in the official format, with a reminder before every deadline.
Uses each program’s history to estimate what share of your next cohort will likely get hired.
Past cohorts, then the likely next one.
Type what you need in one sentence and the report builds itself.
From enrollment to graduation or withdrawal, with the full history.
If a student re-enrolls later, nothing from before is lost.
Employers, openings and applications live next to your student data, tracked from application to hire.
Sample data.
Placemat compares the skills employers ask for in their openings with the skills your students say they have, so you see exactly what each program needs to reinforce.
Placement teams fill jobs. Academic directors fix programs. Same data, both jobs.
Each student gets a résumé and a public profile generated from data already in the system, ready to share on LinkedIn. When the hire is confirmed, the profile carries a verified badge.
Your graduates become your most credible proof of outcomes.
Recent Medical Assisting graduate with clinical practicum experience in patient intake and records, now working in a busy outpatient clinic.
Sample data.
Each role sees only what belongs to them.
The full picture across programs, plus the official reports your accreditor expects.
Day-to-day follow-up for every student and graduate, plus the employer relationships behind each hire.
Students and graduates search, apply and build their résumé without leaving the platform.
Each institution works under the hiring and data-protection rules of the country where it places graduates. Data is never mixed between countries or institutions.
Your logo and colors across the whole platform. Send them to us and our team configures everything.
Students and staff use the login they already have. No new passwords to manage.
Each institution sees only its own students, reports and statistics. Never another’s.
Spreadsheets store data. Full suites run the whole school. Placemat focuses on the number your accreditor judges you by.
| Capability | Placemat | Spreadsheets | Full student-system suites | Career-services tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placement rate calculated with your accreditor’s criteria, all year | ● | — | ◐ | ◐ |
| Official-format reports with deadline reminders | ● | — | ◐ | ◐ |
| Cohort risk alerts with the exact placements still needed | ● | — | ◐ | — |
| Placement projection for the next cohort | ● | — | — | ◐ |
| Gap between employer demand and student skills | ● | — | — | ◐ |
| Verified, shareable graduate profiles | ● | — | — | ◐ |
| Job board with application-to-hire tracking | ● | — | ◐ | ● |
| Country-specific rules, with data separated by institution | ● | — | ◐ | ◐ |
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Placemat is a web platform that helps a college or institute follow every student from enrollment to employment, keep placement-rate calculations current all year, and generate the reports its accrediting body requires.
Technical, vocational and career institutions that must report job placement rates to an accrediting body. Leadership, placement teams, and students and graduates each get their own view.
Placemat applies the same criteria each accrediting body uses and keeps the calculation updated throughout the year, so reports are ready to download in the official format.
Before a reporting period ends, Placemat shows which groups of students will not reach the required placement rate and how many more placements are needed to get there.
Yes. Each institution sees only its own students, reports and statistics, and data is never mixed between institutions or countries.
Yes. Send your logo and brand colors and the Placemat team configures the platform with your branding.
Yes. Students and staff can sign in with the account they already use at their institution, so nobody creates a new password.
The platform is available in English, Spanish and French.
