Protect your college or university with Everbridge
Establishing a safe and secure higher education environment for students, faculty, and staff, while encouraging community collaboration is a complex challenge. Colleges and universities depend on our critical event management tools to ensure swift and effective crisis management during critical events.

Keep your people safe and your organization running
Our solutions empower you to build safety and resilience when it matters most. We can help you stay prepared, protected, and focused on education when crises happen.
Leverage our advanced emergency communication tools to tackle evolving threats, secure student well-being, and safeguard educational continuity during critical events.
Know earlier, respond faster, and improve continuously in how you deal with threats
Stay ahead of physical and digital threats like weather events, active assailants, or IT disruptions. The Everbridge Critical Event Management (CEM) platform empowers resilience by enabling you to:

1. Know earlier
With advanced business continuity planning and leading risk intelligence, you’ll get real-time insights to detect threats wherever they arise, helping you quickly identify risks to your people and operations.

2. Respond faster
When critical events happen, speed matters. Our Alert Management feature enables seamless, “one-click” responses, from emergency communications to clear instructions, keeping your people and your organization protected.

3. Improve continuously
Adapt and improve with our detailed after-action reports, response analytics, and interactive dashboards. Turn data into insights to strengthen your organization’s resilience for the future.
How Everbridge empowers college and universities
Seamless campus alerts
Enable two-way communication to share updates and manage emergencies effectively.
Real-time risk insights
Access critical intelligence to identify and respond to potential threats with speed and accuracy.
Optimized emergency workflows
Streamline response efforts with workflows that enhance coordination and efficiency.
Student and staff safety assurance
Quickly locate and protect students, faculty, and staff during critical situations.

How it works
Everbridge aids colleges and universities by detecting threats, sending automated alerts, and ensuring cohesive communication. This approach ensures rapid responses, reduces risk across campus, and strengthens institutional resilience during disruptions and emergencies.

Education institution
streamlines communications with Everbridge
A higher education institution in the American Midwest relies on Everbridge to contact their staff, students, and faculty during emergencies. With 17 colleges and universities in their remit, complex and manual processes need to be avoided during critical events, and with Everbridge they’ve found a streamlined solution that meets their needs.
How your college or university can benefit from using Everbridge
Critical event management
Ensure the safety of your campus community, sporting or entertainment events, and maintain operations during emergencies. Benefit from rapid response, coordinated actions, and improved outcomes in critical situations.
Business continuity
Safeguard academic programs and campus operations with tools that minimize disruption. Stay prepared, recover quickly, and maintain a seamless experience for students and staff.
Travel risk management
Protect students and faculty traveling abroad with timely alerts and actionable updates. Reduce risks, enhance safety, and provide peace of mind for everyone on the move.
Digital operations
Maintain smooth and uninterrupted learning experiences, both online and on-campus. Proactively tackle disruptions, improve system reliability, and enhance performance for better outcomes.

Everbridge named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management
Empower resilience with the leading critical event management platform.

Outcome
Everbridge empowers universities and colleges to enhance campus safety, streamline emergency coordination, and ensure operational continuity. With real-time communication tools, institutions can swiftly alert and protect students, faculty, and staff during threats like severe weather or security breaches. Its unified dashboard improves collaboration and response times, minimizing disruptions to learning environments. By proactively safeguarding people and assets, Everbridge builds trust and supports the long-term success of educational institutions.
See Everbridge 360™ in action
Embark on a virtual tour of the Everbridge 360 platform, guided by AI Michael. Discover how Everbridge serves as a vital partner in fostering a resilient future for organizations.
Featured customer stories

University stays connected
and aligned during critical events
A university in a large city in the United States uses Everbridge Mass Notification to ensure all students and staff across two main campuses remain informed during critical events.

How a university used BC in the Cloud to increase visibility, maintain compliance, and readiness
Read how Everbridge helped this university mature its preparedness program, stay ahead of potential regulations, and lead the way for other institutions in higher education.

Boost incident communications with IT Alerting
During an IT system outage, this university lacked a centralized communications tool to alert on-call team members to coordinate their response. They turned to Everbridge to help.

Ensuring campus safety at DePaul University
DePaul University has found that Everbridge allows them to easily and quickly send texts, voice calls, and emails, making it a seamless process to reach their audience.

Everbridge receives perfect
marks from university
A university has relied on Everbridge for over ten years to send notifications to over 30,000 recipients, campus TVs, and their website during critical events.

Use of Mass Notification at Azusa Pacific University
Azusa Pacific University uses Everbridge Mass Notification for campus safety and communications when emergencies and regional events require immediate notification.
Featured resources

Getting buy-in for your campus safety strategy
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Five ways to improve campus safety and security
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Active shooter response plan for higher education
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