Application Process

Degree Seeking Students

• Students applying to Fort Hays State University must be admitted to the university before they can pre-enroll for classes.

• To be considered for admission to the university, a student must fill out the application for admission and submit official transcripts from all previously attended schools.

• An official transcript is one received by Fort Hays from the issuing school.  The transcript must be sealed in a school envelope.  Transcripts that have been tampered with or that have been opened will not be considered official.

• Students can be provisionally admitted with unofficial transcripts (such as faxed, internet copies, or scanned emailed copies) if the unofficial copies are legible.  Students will need to follow-up with the official copies to complete admission.

• Degree summaries will not be done with unofficial transcripts.  You must have official transcripts on file to request a degree summary.

Non-Degree Seeking Students

• Students who do not wish to obtain a degree from Fort Hays State University and who will not be applying for financial aid can apply as a non-degree seeking student.  These students will be classified as a freshman, and are not required to submit transcripts. 

• If a student wishes to change from non-degree seeking status to degree seeking, he or she must submit all required transcripts and meet admission requirements before their status will be changed to degree seeking.

PLEASE NOTE:  Admission to the university is not immediate. 
Applicants who submit applications and transcripts a week or less before the start of a semester may not have their paperwork processed and may not be admitted for that semester.