Understanding Awarding for Multiple Careers

Financial Aid enables you to package a student for one career for the first term and another career for one or more subsequent terms. You can also package a student for one career for the aid year, then later repackage the student with a different career for part of the aid year. This is called "sequential career awarding."

You can also package a student for one career for the aid year and then replace the award package with awards for a second career for the aid year. The change in career would occur because the student changed to a different career for the aid year, prior to the start of the first term. This is called "replacement career awarding."

For institutions with more than two terms, the system also allows you to award a student who changes from Career 1 for the aid year to Career 1 for Term 1 and Career 2 for Term 2 then back to Career 1 for Term 3. The system also supports awarding for students who change from Career 1 for the aid year to Career 1 for Term 1 and Career 2 for Term 2 and Career 3 for Term 3. This would be sequential career awarding with three careers instead of two.

Note:

You cannot package a student for more than one career per term.

The Student's Field Audits page displays changes made to the student's Financial Aid term during the build process. This assists you in identifying students who may need award adjustments or budget updates based on a career change or other student record change.

Mass Packaging can also process students who have different careers in different terms within the aid year. Mass Packaging packages the student using one career, then packages them again using the other career. Awards made under the first career are considered existing (passive) awards when the student is packaged for the second career.