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Immigration reform supporters are celebrating a decision by Emory University to provide aid for undocumented students.

Emory University now offers scholarships to students who qualify under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals guidelines.

The university released the following statement:

"...As a private institution, Emory will use private, non-governmental resources to offer university scholarship support to these qualified students, beginning with the class entering this fall."

Andy Kim, a senior at Emory and co-founder of "Freedom at Emory," says this decision is long overdue.

"I didn't see it being fair that my peers who were smarter than me, and qualified to go to school were not able to," Kim said.

D.A. King, an anti-immigration activist, tells Channel 2 Action News he disagrees.

"I think emory has made the predictable decision to reward illegal immigration to demonstrate how morally superior they are at the cost of people who have obeyed our immigration laws," King said.

State rules bar undocumented students from attending some of Georgia's top universities.

The rules also prohibit immigrants without legal status from paying in-state tuition at other schools.

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Emory University to give scholarships to undocumented students