Become a Panther – Apply Today!
Enrolling for Fall, Summer, or Spring 2024?
- Undergraduate and transfer students can apply for free! The $30 fee will automatically be waived after you've finished your application.
- Receive a FREE gift when you apply on campus!
- You are not required to submit SAT or ACT scores to be eligible for admission to EIU or for merit scholarships.
EIU is test optional!
- EIU will no longer require SAT or ACT test scores for admission to the University.
- Applicants who do not submit test scores, but have a 2.8 high school GPA and college prep work will meet admissions criteria. Those with no test scores and a 2.5 to 2.79 GPA will have their credentials reviewed to determine eligibility for admission.
- Students may still submit test scores in order to be admitted using standard admissions criteria (minimum 2.5 GPA, 18 ACT or 960 SAT).
- The test-optional policy change was implemented for any student enrolling for Fall 2021 or later. It was partly motivated by COVID-related disruption of standardized testing, and partly by a desire to eliminate unnecessary barriers to college admission faced by marginalized student groups.
- Merit Scholarships will be made available specifically for EIU’s eligible test-optional admits, as well as those who include their test scores.
