Our Story

Built by higher ed insiders,
for higher ed leaders.

EduIndex was born from twenty years of watching brilliant university administrators make consequential decisions with incomplete, fragmented, and late data. We decided to change that.

A GRG Education Analytics product · Launched 2025

Our Mission
"Every university leader deserves to know — with precision and confidence — where their institution stands, why, and what to do about it."
— Founding Principle, GRG Education Analytics
The Problem We Saw

The data was always there.
The clarity wasn't.

Over two decades of consulting for colleges and universities across the United States, the GRG Education Analytics team saw the same pattern repeat itself at institution after institution: leaders drowning in data, starving for insight.

Provosts receiving 14 separate Excel reports from 14 different offices — none of them speaking to each other. CFOs making multi-million dollar program decisions based on enrollment data that was six months old. Presidents walking into SACSCOC reviews without a clear picture of their own accreditation risk exposure.

The data existed. The systems were there. But nobody had stitched them together into something a university president could actually use to lead — not just manage.

EduIndex was our answer. Not another BI tool that requires an analyst to operate. Not another point solution that solves one problem while ignoring four others. A single, composite institutional intelligence platform that integrates every dimension of performance — academic, student, financial, labor market, and operational — into one evidence-based score.

We built it for the Provost who needs to walk into a Board meeting with confidence. For the CFO who needs to know which programs are dragging the institution down. For the President who needs to make a $40 million strategic bet and wants the data to back it up.

20+ yrs
GRG advising colleges and universities across the US
From community colleges to research universities
4,300+
Degree-granting US institutions that need this
Less than 5% have integrated analytics today
"The single biggest competitive advantage a university can have is knowing itself better than its peers know themselves."
GRG Education Analytics · Strategic Advisory Practice
What We Believe

The principles behind
every design decision.

Evidence over intuition
University leaders are smart and experienced. EduIndex doesn't replace their judgment — it gives their judgment a rigorous, data-backed foundation to stand on.
Composite over isolated
No single metric tells the story of an institution. EduIndex measures five interconnected dimensions simultaneously, because that's how institutions actually work.
Proactive over reactive
By the time a problem shows up in a quarterly report, it's been building for a year. EduIndex surfaces emerging risks while there's still time to act.
Context through peers
A score of 74 means nothing without context. EduIndex benchmarks every institution against a curated peer group so leaders know where they stand and why.
Accessible to non-analysts
No EduIndex dashboard should require an IR director to interpret it. If the Provost can't read it directly, we haven't done our job.
Privacy by design
Student data is sacred. Every architectural decision in EduIndex starts with FERPA compliance, hard data isolation, and the principle of minimum necessary access.
The Team

Built by people who've
sat in your chairs.

The EduIndex team brings together higher education consultants, data scientists, and enterprise software engineers — all with direct experience in university administration or analytics.

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Dr. David Reyes
Founder & CEO
Former VP of Institutional Effectiveness at three US universities. 22 years in higher ed strategy and accreditation. Founded GRG Education Analytics in 2004.
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Dr. Maria Langford
Chief Analytics Officer
PhD in Educational Data Science (Columbia). Former Director of Institutional Research at a 20,000-student university. Architect of the EduIndex scoring methodology.
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James Kim
CTO
15 years building enterprise SaaS platforms. Previously led data engineering at two EdTech companies and an ERP integration firm serving higher education.
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Dr. Angela Nwosu
VP, Client Success
Former Provost at a regional liberal arts college. Brings direct executive leadership experience to every client implementation and strategic advisory engagement.
Since 2004

The advisory firm
behind EduIndex.

GRG Education Analytics has spent twenty years helping colleges and universities navigate strategic challenges — from accreditation crises to enrollment decline, from program portfolio rationalization to presidential transitions.

EduIndex is the product of that experience distilled into a platform. Every index, every metric, every alert is informed by the patterns we've seen across hundreds of institutional engagements.

When you use EduIndex, you're not just getting software. You're getting the analytical framework that GRG has refined over two decades of higher education consulting.

Learn about GRG Education Analytics →
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200+ Institutional Engagements
Strategy, accreditation, enrollment, and financial sustainability consulting across community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and research universities.
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Accreditation Expertise
Deep familiarity with MSCHE, SACSCOC, HLC, WASC, ABET, AACSB, and CCNE requirements — embedded directly into EduIndex's accreditation module.
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Peer Benchmarking Network
GRG's existing institutional relationships seed EduIndex's benchmarking network — giving early clients immediate, meaningful peer comparisons from day one.
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Research-Grounded Methodology
The EduIndex scoring framework is grounded in peer-reviewed research on institutional performance, validated against IPEDS data across 1,200+ institutions.
Our Journey

From consulting insight
to institutional intelligence.

2004
2004
GRG Education Analytics Founded
Dr. David Reyes launches GRG to provide strategic consulting to small and mid-sized US colleges. Early focus on accreditation preparation and enrollment strategy.
2018
2018
The EduIndex Framework Takes Shape
After years of building custom analytics for clients, GRG begins formalizing the five-index framework. First internal prototype used on client engagements.
2023
2023
Platform Development Begins
Decision made to build EduIndex as a standalone SaaS product. Engineering team assembled. Azure infrastructure designed. Banner and Workday connectors built.
2025
2025
EduIndex Launches
Pilot partnerships signed with founding institutions. Full platform launched with all five indices, benchmarking network, scenario planner, and accreditation module.
Get Started

See your institution's
full picture today.

Explore the live demo, request a pilot, or speak with a GRG advisor about what EduIndex would look like for your institution.