The Graduate School application fee is $60 (U.S. dollars) for domestic applicants and $75 (U.S. dollars) for international applicants. You must pay your application fee online with your credit card. Visa and MasterCard cards are accepted and processed using a secured online payment system. Your application will not be processed until your nonrefundable application fee has been paid.

Graduate School applicants who are residents of the State of Indiana and are experiencing an economic hardship may request a waiver of the application fee. To request a waiver of the application fee, please send an email explaining your situation to gradinfo@purdue.edu.

Additionally, application fee waivers are available for participants in the following programs:

• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
• Big Ten+ Graduate School Expo
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) FreeApp
• * Purdue Graduate School Criteria for the CIC FreeApp
• Graduate Feeder Scholars Program (Florida A & M University)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Internship (Purdue University)
• Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Program
• McNair Scholars Program
• National Science Foundation Summer Internship (Purdue University)
• Native American Institution Visit Program
• Purdue Multicultural/HBI Visitation Program
• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference
• Summer Research Opportunity Program (formerly MARC/AIM)
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

If you are a non degree applicant at one of the Purdue University campuses, you will not be charged an application fee.