Regent Enterprise Named 2008 CODiE Award Finalist

Financial aid management software solution named for Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution

Frederick, Maryland, February 21, 2008 - Regent Education, the leading provider of financial aid management software solutions for higher education institutions, today announced that Regent Enterprise has been has been named a 2008 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution.

"Competition is tough this year and that makes selection as a CODiE Finalist a real achievement," said Ken Wash, SIIA president. "All the companies on this year’s list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition."

The CODiE Awards celebrate achievement and vision in software, education technology and digital content. Presented by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), these awards represent the only-peer reviewed honor in the industry. For 23 years, SIIA's CODiE Awards have been the leading honor for the software and information industry's finest products and services. CODiE Awards judges work to identify the "best-of-the-best" from hundreds of nominees - over 1,000 in 2007. Regent Enterprise was selected from many high-caliber products as one of the best in the software and information industry.

Regent’s leading financial aid solution, Regent Enterprise, is made up of four components: The Executive Dashboard, Financial Aid Management automated workflow, integrated Regent Imaging, and the multi-lingual Student Financial Aid Self Service Portal. The unprecedented range of monitoring, reporting and analyzing capabilities that Regent Enterprise enables helps institutions make faster, smarter operational and strategic decisions to achieve enrollment, compliance and student access goals. All this comes together to form a scalable, flexible financial aid solution that supports all types of institutions -- traditional and non traditional; term and non-term; single campus and multi-campus.

Regent Enterprise key benefits include:

• Simple and natural to use reducing staff training time
• Integrated document imaging and indexing tool, Regent Imaging
• Process repeatability through workflow user interface to ensure compliance
• Rapid implementation for fast return on investment

“The Regent team works tirelessly to deliver a best of breed, industry leading financial aid software solution,” said Michael Ratti, Regent’s CEO. “It is an honor to be recognized by SIIA as a CODiE award finalist.”

Over 250 judges from the trade press, consulting, educators, IT specialists and other knowledgeable, but neutral, experts have reviewed all of the products entered. The Finalists were chosen from more than 1,000 nominations submitted by more than 600 companies. The next step in the process brings the Finalist products before the SIIA members for a vote to determine the winners in each category. The 2008 Codie Awards will be presented at a gala event on May 20 at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.