Accepted Students

Fall 2025
Accepted first-year students, reply to your offer by May 1, 2025, if you were accepted to the university by April 1. If you were accepted after April 1, respond within two weeks after your acceptance.

Accepted transfer students, reply to your offer by June 1, 2025.

Visit the VCU Application Portal to complete your VCU response form. After you have completed the form, you may pay your tuition deposit to let us know you’ll be joining us at VCU.

Note: Both your response form and tuition deposit must be received in order for your account to reflect that you have accepted the offer of admission.

If you’re receiving a scholarship or financial aid, you may request a tuition deposit waiver on the response form. Visit your Application Portal for more information and a link to the form.

By logging in to the VCU Application Portal, you will be able to view your admission status, your VCU ID number, entry semester, degree program, residency status and any admission conditions. Review all admission information for accuracy and notify the VCU Office of Admissions of any inaccuracies or questions.

Join us for Preview Day — when you can meet VCUarts faculty, staff and other new students. Learn about VCU resources including Housing, Student Financial Management — and more!

Saturday, February 8, 2025 (in person)
Saturday, March 22, 2025 (in person)
Saturday, April 19, 2025 (in person)

Event information is available here.

Virtual meetings with your admissions counselor
Our VCUarts Admissions Counselors are available to meet with you one-on-one via phone or Zoom.
Schedule your appointment.

Schedule an in-person tour
Take an in-person tour of VCUarts facilities with one of our student tour guides.
Schedule your tour.

Explore our facilities online
Take a virtual tour of the VCU campus and learn more about the arts facilities, including 360 degree images of our studios.
Take a virtual tour.
Learn about our Community & Campus.

Reach out
Our office is open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (ET). Email us at arts@vcu.edu or call 804-VCU-ARTS.

If you haven’t already, apply for financial aid by submitting a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the March 1 priority filing date. If you filled out the FAFSA, you will receive a letter from VCU Financial Aid with more information about your financial awards.

Scholarships for newly accepted students are automatically awarded to qualifying students based on academic achievement and talent. If you are awarded a scholarship, you will be notified by mail or email. There are additional scholarship opportunities that you can explore once you are a currently enrolled student.

• Learn about financial aid.
• View scholarship information.
• Use the tuition and fees calculator.

VCU is dedicated to your success and wellness. As a student, you will have access to professionals dedicated to helping you.

• Safe Zone designated people and spaces across campus that offer support for LGBTQIA+ students.
• The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs promotes an appreciation of diversity through events, forums, scholarships, and more.
• Military Student Services is available to assist military servicemembers and their families.
• The Student Accessibility and Educational Opportunity Office is available to administer support and accommodations to help students with disabilities succeed.
• University Counseling Services offers therapy options, mental health resources, and an after-hours emergency line.
• The Wellness Resource Center is available to assist with sleep health, stress management, sexual health, nutrition, and recovery support.
• The Writing Center provides peer-based support to help VCU students become the strongest writers possible.

VCUarts is among the top-ranked schools of arts and design in the country. That means you’ll graduate with credibility as an artist and a professional, with a degree that’s respected in the world of galleries, design and advertising firms, graduate schools, artistic directors and employers. When you graduate, you will join a global network of 25,000 VCUarts alums.

You can find your path through our 16 arts departments and programs — but that’s not all. We capitalize on our place at the heart of a large public research university, meaning you can collaborate and learn with students and faculty from every corner of VCU, including business and entrepreneurship, the humanities, STEM, and more.

Richmond is the perfect home for one of the nation’s leading public arts schools. You’ll be near galleries and music venues, Fortune 500 companies and innovative start-ups, acres of parks, and whitewater rapids. Plus, Washington, D.C., New York City, the beach, and the mountains are all a short trip away.

Our students regularly work, intern, and volunteer with galleries, public parks, Hollywood film crews, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts — one of the largest art museums in the nation — all right here in Richmond. Also, the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU strengthens the link between VCUarts and the city’s creative cultures by serving as a space for internationally recognized artists, designers, performers, and the community to convene.

Studying abroad can change your perspective and influence your creative work. At VCUarts, you can take part in a program led by our faculty or participate in an exchange program with a school in another country. We also invest in your exploration. You can apply for a Dean’s International Research Grant to travel to new places and conduct research that matters to you. Our campus in Doha, Qatar, also offers opportunities to study abroad and participate in international conferences.

VCUarts students are from all over the U.S. — and the world — and celebrate diversity in all of its forms. As a minority-serving institution, VCU is dedicated to giving all students the resources and support to succeed in the classroom and share their perspectives in the world.

We have staff dedicated to inclusive excellence, and provide resources, counseling, training and events that encourage our faculty, staff and students to explore — and be inspired by — our diverse community.

At VCUarts, our faculty are both teachers and doers. You’ll learn your craft from professors whose creative accomplishments have been seen in Tony Award-winning theater productions, nationally celebrated dance companies, world-class museums and international design competitions. We’re also a beacon for creatives — convening artists, designers and performers from every corner of the world. You’ll learn what it’s like to be a professional artist from conversations with practicing painters, sculptors and musicians, or from talking with pioneering curators and entrepreneurs about the business and culture of their work.

Your classmates will have just as much influence on your creative process. Check out myVCUarts for a candid look at how VCUarts students have innovative ways of making, discover new ideas, and work through creative challenges.

You’ll be a part of the VCUarts community, a vibrant, close-knit group of creatives who will change the world. You’ll also be part of the larger VCU community, and you’ll have access to nearly 500 student organizations. You can find your new best friend in an organization built around your interests, whether they are cultural, spiritual, sports and outdoor recreation, or Greek life.