8 weeks → 5to match students to scholarships across its schools, after moving from spreadsheets and forms.
Scholarship management software
Spend every scholarship dollar, fully, compliantly and on time.
Awarded matches every eligible student to every fund, so donor dollars stop sitting unspent.
Johns Hopkins cut scholarship matching from 8 weeks to 5 on Awarded.
Trusted by 100+ campuses
Sound familiar?
Scholarships shouldn't be this hard to give away.
We still match the old-fashioned way: around a table, with spreadsheets.
Awarded matches automatically from SIS and application data, and shows exactly why each student qualifies.
How much is left in that fund? Did we award it yet?
Live balances for every fund: untouched, partially spent and fully spent, for aid, finance and advancement.
We're still awarding after the semester ends.
Award in weeks, not months, with every fund's remaining balance in view, so nothing is left over when the term starts.
For students
One place for every scholarship, from application to thank-you.
No more hunting across department forms, foundation applications and email threads. Students sign in once, never retype what's already in your SIS, and find every scholarship they qualify for in one place.
- One sign-in with campus SSO
- One profile instead of a form for every fund
- Award offers, documents and thank-you notes in the same place
Integrations
Connected to your SIS. Light on IT.
We write and run the integration. Awards go back to Financial Aid as fall and spring installments, with every status visible.
SISStudent Information SystemRead nightly
- Enrollment
- Major
- GPA
- Aid package
- Email & ID
+ admissions data+ finance balances
2:00 AM nightly sync
JRJordan R.ID 900412
EnrollmentFull-time
MajorCivil Eng.
GPA3.6
Unmet need$9,200
Award$7,500Engineering Excellence
FAStudent Information SystemFinancial aid · written back
| Student | Term | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan R. | Fall | $3,750 | Scheduled |
| Jordan R. | Spring | $3,750 | Scheduled · Jan 5 |
| Kayla M. | Fall | $2,000 | Scheduled |
Student Information System: “fund would be over-awarded” · Retry
Key benefits
Everything scholarship awarding needs, in one platform.
A student portal that gets better applications
One streamlined portal raises both the number and the quality of applications. The application itself is optional.
Thank-you notes, collected for you
Students write to their donors in the same place they accept awards, and notes flow into donor reports.
Eligibility beyond your SIS
Capture what your student information system doesn't hold, like first-gen status, hometown or essays, and use it in matching.
Faster awarding timelines
Powerful award automations take awarding from months to weeks, so funds are spent before the term starts.
Centralized or decentralized
Run awarding from one office, across many departments, or both, with one view of every fund.
Every kind of award process
Auto-match, application-based and review-based awards, side by side, so each fund is awarded the way its donor intended.
Deep, two-way SIS integration
Student data flows in from your student information system and awards flow back, with every status visible.
Donor intent, validated
Awarded sets up the criteria for you and makes sure every donor intent is fully mapped and validated before a dollar is awarded.
Results
Customer Success Stories
8 weeks → 5
+15%fund utilization, and $1M more awarded year over year.
Case study4×more student thank-you notes for donors.
$321Kin stagnant funds awarded in the first semester.
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How Awarded's scholarship matching compares.
Side-by-side with the tools scholarship offices use today.
What is scholarship management software?
Scholarship management software helps universities match students to donor-funded scholarships, make and package awards, verify donor intent and communicate with recipients. Awarded replaces the spreadsheets, email chains and separate application tools most offices use today.
How much IT work does the SIS integration take?
Very little. Awarded's team writes and runs the integration. Banner schools can use Ellucian Ethos for a two-way connection or secure file transfer (SFTP); Workday, Colleague, PeopleSoft and others typically use SFTP. Changing SIS later doesn't mean paying for a second implementation.
Do students have to fill out a long application?
No. Anything already in your SIS, such as major and GPA, is never asked again. Students complete one scholarship profile and only see the supplements they're eligible for. 96% of Awarded clients condense or eliminate their scholarship applications.
Can departments and committees still choose their recipients?
Yes. Teams give each department access to its own funds, review rounds can be scored on a rubric, and departments mark finalists or draft awards for central approval.
Who sets it up?
We do: data migration, a review of every gift agreement, criteria setup and application design, with a dedicated implementation manager and then a customer success manager.