Scholarship vs. Fellowship — What's the Difference?

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further their education at a private elementary or secondary school, or a private or public post-secondary college, university, or other academic institution. Scholarships are awarded based upon various criteria, such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, financial need, among others.

The companionship of individuals in a congenial atmosphere and on equal terms

The methods, discipline, and attainments of a scholar or scholars.

Friendship; comradeship

Knowledge resulting from study and research in a particular field.

A close association of friends or equals sharing similar interests

A grant of financial aid awarded to a student, as for the purpose of attending a college.

The financial grant made to a fellow in a college or university.

A grant-in-aid to a student.

The status or position of one who is awarded such a grant.

The character or qualities of a scholar.

A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

(dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.

(uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.

The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

(education) A merit-based scholarship.

(intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.

(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.

(transitive) To grant a scholarship to.

(medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.

The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

Literary education.

(transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.

Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.

To join in fellowship; to associate with.

Financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit

The state or relation of being or associate.

Profound scholarly knowledge

Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.

A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.

Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.

A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.

The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; - called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.

To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities;

The state of being with someone;

Money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research