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[ Webflow vs Modern Campus and Squiz ]
What does a university give up when it leaves Modern Campus or Squiz?
You give up the bundled higher ed modules - catalog publishing, staged approval chains, vendor-run accessibility scans and the support contract that covers them. On Webflow, each of those becomes something you own. Structured CMS collections, role-based publishing permissions, and accessibility built into the component library. Your content, URLs and integrations move with you. What changes is who holds the keys.
That trade is the whole decision. Everything below is how to judge it before procurement asks you to defend it.
[ Credit where it is due ]
What a higher ed specific platform already does well
[ Life after the switch ]
What each piece becomes on Webflow
[ Planning the move ]
What a move of this size actually looks like
Where the responsibility sits on each platform
Capability
Higher ed specific CMS
Webflow Enterprise
Higher ed specific CMS
Webflow Enterprise
Who owns the content model after launch
This is the procurement question nobody prepares for. On a vertical platform, the vendor owns the content model, and your roadmap moves when their roadmap moves. On Webflow, your team owns it, which means a new degree program or a rebranded college is a change you make rather than a ticket you file.
That shift is the real point of the move, and it is also why the decision belongs to IT and marketing together rather than to either one alone. We break down how that split works in practice in decoupling web development in higher ed.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Webflow have a higher education CMS module
No. Webflow has no prebuilt catalog, course or faculty module, so the content model is designed for your institution during the build. That is a cost at the start and an advantage afterwards, because the model matches how your colleges actually publish.
What happens to our course catalog if we move off Modern Campus
It becomes a structured CMS collection, ideally fed by the system that already holds the authoritative record. Catalog entries render from one template, so program changes update everywhere at once. The work is in mapping fields and relationships before migration, not in moving the text.
Can departments publish on their own without breaking the brand
Yes, if you set it up that way. Role-based permissions decide who drafts and who publishes, and a locked component library decides what they can build with. Department editors get speed inside guardrails rather than a blank canvas.
How long does a university website migration take
It depends on page count and integrations, so no honest answer fits every campus. For reference on scale, Ammo migrated 438 pages in 21 days for M13 and moved Bigeye off Contentful and Gatsby in under 30 days. Most universities phase the move by college or funnel rather than cutting over at once.
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