How to Apply to Purdue

Use the Online Application
Purdue encourages all students to take advantage of our online application), which offers multiple advantages:

• Online status check to ensure your application is complete or to review what is missing
• Online decision status, once an admission decision has been made
• Integrity of information - because the information you provide does not need to be re-entered.

Application Fee
Online payment of the nonrefundable $30 application fee (or qualified fee waiver) will be required to submit the application.

Save Your Progress
With the online application you will be able to save your progress at any point and return to it as necessary until it is complete. Be sure to remember the log-in information you create when you initiate an application so that you can complete a saved form take advantage of online status check once the form has been submitted.

First-Time Freshmen
For first-time freshman applicants, a complete application includes the application itself, an ACT or SAT test score (including writing), an official high school transcript, and a non-refundable $30 application fee (or qualified fee waiver). Click here for freshman applicant admission criteria.

Transfer Students
Transfer students should refer to the transfer criteria web page for specific information about admission expectations for transfer students.

Students with a GED
Students who have received a GED must provide a high school transcript for any completed high school coursework. Such students also must meet Purdue's high school coursework expectations, which may be met through a combination of high school and college-level coursework. Students with a GED and no college coursework will be evaluated as first-time freshmen. Students with a GED who have completed college coursework will be evaluated as transfer students.