Admissions

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Undergraduate admissions decisions are handled by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Please refer to their website for information on applying to a Vanderbilt program.

Graduate admissions decisions are handled by the specific program. Please refer to the Graduate and Professional School Admissions page for more information about applying.

The Office of the University Registrar, in conjunction with ISSS, highly recommends that entering graduate and professional students who completed a degree at an international institution obtain a certified course-by-course evaluation of their degree(s) to submit with their application. For more information, please visit the University Registrar’s website. International students with questions about the prior degree verification process may contact prior-degree-review@vanderbilt.edu.

After you have been admitted to a Vanderbilt program, ISSS will send you information about requesting your initial I-20 (F-1 students) or DS-2019 (J-1 students).

If you are interested in knowing what the CIP code would be for your major for STEM OPT purposes, you can find the CIP code that pertains to your degree program at Vanderbilt by visiting the list maintained by the University Registrar’s Office here. (click on CIP codes)