Transfer Steps to Enrollment
Meet All Deadlines
If you miss an SJSU deadline, we will withdraw your application for admission, and you will not be able to attend SJSU for the term you originally intended. If you have an extreme hardship or unusual circumstance that may cause you to miss one of our deadlines, contact admissions@sjsu.edu immediately.
Steps to Enrollment
Before starting the Steps to Enrollment process, make sure you have activated your
MySJSU account. SJSU communicates by posting items to your “To Do List” and sending
messages to your MySJSU account.
Step 1 - Submit Your Intent to Enroll
If admitted, you must complete the Next Steps Intent to Enroll process by the date posted on your MySJSU “To Do List”. The Next Steps Intent to Enroll process includes accepting SJSU’s offer of admission, signing up for Orientation, and paying the nonrefundable enrollment deposit. All steps must be completed to maintain admission at SJSU.
Step 2 - Sign up for Orientation
Orientation is a mandatory one-day program. For details, visit the Orientation website.
Step 3 - Pay Your Enrollment Deposit
In order to complete the Next Steps Intent to Enroll process, you will be prompted to pay your enrollment deposit via our Transact website (link provided in your Next Steps portal). Your nonrefundable Enrollment Deposit of $250 includes your Orientation payment and a deposit toward a portion of your tuition and fees for your first term of enrollment.
Step 4 - Apply for Campus Housing (optional)
If you would like to live in campus Housing while attending SJSU, you must complete a Housing Application. The priority Housing application deadline is May 1 for a fall term.Step 5 - Attend Orientation (mandatory)
Orientation is mandatory. If you are late or leave during any portion of the program, your admission will be withdrawn.Step 6 - Take the Writing Skills Test Directed Self Placement Exercise
SJSU has suspended offering the Writing Skills Test (WST), which is a prerequisite to 100W and SJSU Studies courses (GE Areas R, S, and V) and created an alternative process to meet the WST requirement called the WST Directed Self Placement exercise (DSP).
