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Fisk-Vanderbilt Dual Degree Program

The student must satisfy the degree requirements for the Vanderbilt degree, including a minimum of 60 hours of Vanderbilt courses.

  • Major courses (approximately 40 hours)
  • Program electives and cognate courses (approximately 20 hours)

The student will be informed of the specific science, mathematics and computer science courses that he/she must complete at Fisk before he/she can transfer to Vanderbilt University. These courses may vary depending upon the student's major. The program is designed for the student to take all of his/her courses at Fisk during the freshman year. The student should normally cross register to take one to three hours at Vanderbilt each semester of the sophomore year. It is necessary before cross-registering to apply for admission to the Dual Degree Program. The student should cross register to take four to eight hours at Vanderbilt during each semester of the junior year.

Information about Vanderbilt engineering programs can be found at the Vanderbilt School of Engineering website.

By January 15 of the second semester of the junior year, the student should fill out the proper forms to transfer to Vanderbilt University. The student will have all of his/her financial affairs handled by Vanderbilt. This means:

  • The student should have his/her FAFSA information form and PROFILE data sent to Vanderbilt;
  • The student will have to get a transfer application from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions from Vanderbilt University and make sure that it is marked that of a Dual Degree Program applicant; and
  • The student has to have a Fisk University transcript sent to Vanderbilt University.

Once this has been done and if the student has a 3.5 GPA or higher at Fisk and Vanderbilt, both overall and in math and science, the Vanderbilt Dual Degree Coordinator will recommend to the Vanderbilt Admissions Office the admission of the student and Vanderbilt will provide the student with information on his/her housing contract.

Application Procedure

In October or November of the fall of the third year, students should make formal application to the Vanderbilt Office of Undergraduate Admissions as a special case (three-two student) of the transfer application process.

Before initiating the application process, the student should make sure that the 3-2 liaisons at Fisk and at Vanderbilt can certify them as having met the requirements of our dual-degree contract (B average, proper pre-engineering courses, and the recommendation of the home institution). The Fisk liaison should communicate his/her recommendation to Vanderbilt and to the Vanderbilt Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

Contact with Vanderbilt Undergraduate Admissions should be made through the Director of Recruitment and Admission of Vanderbilt. Please make sure that the Vanderbilt admissions office understands that you are a 3- 2 transfer applicant.

Application for need-based financial aid, if appropriate, should be made as part of the application process through Admissions. Merit (honor) aid is not available.

Admission will initiate arrangements with our immigration officers (if appropriate) and housing (if needed). We cannot guarantee housing for transfer students, but we can help them.

After Admission to Vanderbilt

While a Vanderbilt student, all of the student's financial matters will be handled through Vanderbilt University. The student will pay tuition at Vanderbilt. The student must keep in mind that all bills must be paid at Vanderbilt each semester before he or she will be allowed to continue the following semester. The student will be responsible for making sure that each university has all the required information on them in order to graduate. The most important requirement is that the student must transfer his/her Vanderbilt transcript to Fisk the last semester before graduation. This is necessary so that Fisk can substitute major courses taken at Vanderbilt for the rest of the program electives and cognates needed to meet the graduation requirements from Fisk.

Additional information about the Vanderbilt Engineering Programs can be found at the Vanderbilt School of Engineering website: http://engineering.vanderbilt.edu.