Graduate International Admissions
To apply to the University of Memphis, please follow the appropriate link. The ISS Office does not directly handle admission applications.
Graduate Admissions: https://www.memphis.edu/graduateadmissions/index.php
Law School Admissions: https://www.memphis.edu/law/admissions/
Students who are interested in the F-1 visa or in continuing F-1 status when shifting
in from another U.S. school will need to obtain a University of Memphis form I-20.
To make the I-20, our office must see the following items. You may have already completed
some items on this list, but all are needed for the I-20:
- Full and official admission to The University of Memphis for an on-campus degree program. Note that online degrees do not meet F-1 requirements. The Admissions Office normally sends this information to our office for each newly admitted student.
- Updated financial information to include tuition and living costs for two regular
semesters. At this time, this means that newly admitted students must show the ability
to afford $31,540 (for incoming Masters and PhD students) or the ability to afford
$31,504 (for Undergraduate students). We must additionally see $6,000 USD for adding
a spouse for F-2 purposes.
- This financial support may possibly be shown through a graduate assistantship letter, a bank letter for your account, or a bank letter plus an affidavit of support from your sponsor's account, a scholarship support letter from your home country government, or any combination thereof.
- U of M affidavit form: https://www.memphis.edu/admissions/pdfs/affidavit.pdf
- Updated address information to include a mailing address and also an address that is your residential location outside of the U.S. (must not be a postal box).
- A scanned image of your passport data page uploaded to your I-20 application. The scan must show your name, birthdate, and your passport's expiration date.
- Any additional visa-related information must be uploaded to your I-20 application, to include any potential F-2 spouse or dependent children passport data pages, and any information on a previous I-20 or SEVIS number.