# Scholarships

> Academium SMS Help › Student Accounting
> For: School Owner, School Admin, Accountant
> Web page: https://helpcenter.academium.com.ng/academium-sms/article/sms-scholarships
> Last updated: 2026-10-06

**Scholarships** reduce what a student pays. Set up a programme, award it to students, and once approved it is applied to their fees as a discount. Scholarships are under **Student Accounting → Scholarship**, and need a plan that includes them.

## 1. Scholarship programmes

Open **Scholarship Programs** and add a programme:

- **Fixed amount** or **percentage** of fees;
- **coverage**: full or partial;
- **active** or inactive;
- whether awards need **approval**, or are **approved automatically**.

## 2. Awarding a scholarship

Open **Scholarship Awards** and award the programme to a student. Choose the amount, the term, how many sessions it lasts (one or several), and add notes.

- If the programme needs approval, the award waits as **pending**.
- If it is approved automatically, it is applied straight away.

While an award is pending you can still change its amount, term, duration and notes. Once approved, it can no longer be edited.

## 3. Approving, rejecting and revoking

- **Approve**: the scholarship is applied to the student's eligible fees as a discount, and records who approved it.
- **Reject**: the award is not applied.
- **Revoke**: removes the scholarship's discounts from the student's fees.

## Scholarships over several sessions

For future sessions, the scholarship is applied once the student is **enrolled** and their **fees are allocated** for that session.

## Reports

**Scholarship Report** lists approved awards for the current session, filtered by class and programme. The dashboard's fees summary shows the total scholarship awarded, and the **fee adjustments** report includes scholarships.

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