Georgetown University admission for international applicants

Georgetown's admissions pages list Early Action on November 1 and Regular Decision on January 1 for all applicants, and they print these dates without a year. You apply with either the Georgetown Application or the Common Application, directly to one of six undergraduate schools, and SAT or ACT scores are required for every candidate, including those who study abroad.

Georgetown's pages do not say "Class of 2031" or "2026-2027 application", so treat the deadlines as Georgetown's standing dates and confirm them in your application account.

Georgetown's admissions pages give no acceptance rate, and this report does not calculate one.

What catches international applicants out

• Testing is mandatory. Georgetown requires SAT and/or ACT scores and the only exception the pages describe is for students physically unable to access a test center in their area.
• The interview is not optional once assigned. Georgetown says students are required to complete their interview when assigned, although some internationally based students may not be assigned one because of availability.
• Need-based aid is thin for non-US citizens. Georgetown meets the full financial need of eligible students, and eligible students include all US citizens and permanent residents. Admitted students outside that group who request aid are considered for a very limited number of need-based scholarships.
• An English test is advice, not a gate. Georgetown recommends, but does not require one, and it publishes no minimum score.

Georgetown calls itself the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university and was founded in 1789. The chapters below take each rule in turn: selection, essays, tests, deadlines, schools, cost and aid.

Georgetown University was founded in 1789 and describes itself as the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. This report lists no ranking position for Georgetown, because its admissions pages cite none.

The university's own About page ties its identity to the 450-year-old legacy of Jesuit education.

Is Georgetown in the Ivy League?

Georgetown's admissions pages do not mention the Ivy League or claim membership in it. They describe the university by its history, its schools and its Washington, D.C. location, so any "Ivy" label you read elsewhere is not something Georgetown itself says.

Rankings and alumni reach

Georgetown's admissions pages cite no QS, Times Higher Education or US News position, so this report gives none. The School of Foreign Service (SFS) site cites alumni in over 120 countries.

Georgetown offers degree and certificate programs across 11 schools, and six of them are undergraduate schools, as the schools chapter explains.

Building of the Georgetown University Office of Undergraduate Admissions

Georgetown's admissions pages give no acceptance rate, and we do not calculate one for you.

What Georgetown does not publish

Georgetown's admissions pages give no first-year class profile: no SAT or ACT middle range, no class rank, and no share of international students.

Early Action and Regular Decision

Georgetown's Early Action page answers the question directly: the acceptance rates at Early Action and Regular Decision will be roughly similar, and Georgetown generally uses the overall acceptance rate from the year before as the Early Action rate. Early Action is therefore not a shortcut to better odds, and Georgetown says so itself.

The same page says that about 15 percent of the candidates deferred from Early Action are successful during the spring review. Georgetown gives that as a typical figure, with no year attached, and no figure for the Fall 2027 round.

Do international applicants have a quota?

Georgetown's international applicants FAQ says there are no specific admissions quotas based on where students attend high school. The page does not publish a count or a share of international students, so we cannot tell you how many places go to applicants from abroad.

Georgetown says its admission process is holistic and comprehensive, with your academic performance at the centre of the review, supported by information that lets it get to know you as an individual and community member.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions says it seeks strong academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, commitment to school and community, and a global outlook. Those four things are the criteria Georgetown names on its preparation page; it publishes no weighting between them.

Context, quotas and citizenship

Georgetown's international FAQ says all applicants are reviewed within the context of the high school and educational system in which they study and the country where they live, and that there are no specific admissions quotas based on where students attend high school. In practice, your record is read in the context of your own school and educational system.

Citizenship matters for money, not for the decision: Georgetown says the applicant's citizenship has no impact on the application review process. For students who qualify for its full-need policy, applying for financial aid does not negatively impact a chance of admission. That policy covers US citizens and permanent residents, so international applicants should read the aid chapter before assuming it applies to them.

What preparation Georgetown expects

Georgetown expects all applicants to have completed four years of English, a minimum of two years of social studies, language study and mathematics, and one year of natural science. The expectations rise by school and programme:

A national diploma that does not match this list is not automatically a problem, since Georgetown reads each file in the context of your school. The list tells you what Georgetown considers a normal foundation, so use it to spot a gap before you apply.

Recommendations

Every applicant must submit two letters of recommendation: one from a school counselor and one from a teacher. Some programmes narrow the teacher:

• McDonough School of Business applicants should have at least one recommendation from a math or social studies teacher.
• Applicants to science, health or mathematics programmes should have at least one from a science or math teacher.
• Applicants to language programmes should have at least one from a world language teacher.

Georgetown's admissions pages do not mention a GPA conversion document or a class-rank requirement, so the "convert to a 4.0 scale" advice you may have read elsewhere is not an official step.

Georgetown does accept the Common Application: students can apply using either the Georgetown Application or the Common Application. The common claim that Georgetown refuses the Common App is wrong on Georgetown's own pages, and the rule below applies to first-year applicants only.

The two routes are not equal for every applicant type. Georgetown's application FAQ says first-years can apply via either application, while transfers can only apply through the Georgetown Application. An international student applying for the first year is a first-year applicant, so you may choose.

Does the choice change your chances?

Georgetown says there is no advantage to submitting one application over the other, and you submit the same information through either. Whichever platform you use, Georgetown reviews the same key materials: your transcript and coursework, essays and short answers, teacher and counselor letters, activities and standardized test scores.

Pick one. Georgetown's FAQ answers the question about sending both with "Please do not submit both application forms!"

How the Common App route is built

After you add Georgetown on the Common Application, you will see two sections: Georgetown Application and the Writing Supplement, which is the Georgetown Supplement. Georgetown does not require the Common Application Personal Statement; the essays Georgetown reads are its own, and the essays chapter covers them.

The page gives these opening dates without a year. If you use the Georgetown Application, interviews can be assigned after you submit Part 1 of the application, which is one practical reason to finish that part early.

Fees and fee waivers

Georgetown's admissions pages give no application fee amount, so we do not state one. On the Common Application, Georgetown will accept the Common App Fee Waiver.

Do international applicants apply differently?

No. Georgetown's International Applicants page says international applicants follow the same application process as students based in the United States. The differences are in what you submit, such as translated documents and the English test, which later chapters cover. Applicants also apply directly to one of six undergraduate schools and are considered only for that programme.

Georgetown offers non-binding Early Action with a deadline of November 1, and admitted students can choose freely among their college options until the May 1 decision deadline. Georgetown's pages do not call this "Restrictive Early Action"; the one restriction they state is that Early Action applicants may not apply to any binding Early Decision programs.

Candidates who view Georgetown as their first choice are strongly encouraged to apply under the non-binding Early Action program, and the policy lets admitted students freely choose among their college options until the May 1 decision deadline.

The Early Action page ties a decision date to each round: the table above is the order in which they fall. Deadlines on these pages carry no year, so check your application account for the dates of your own cycle.

What you may apply to elsewhere

Georgetown's rule is narrow. Early Action applicants may not apply to any binding Early Decision programs, and may not simultaneously apply to another school's Early Decision I or Early Decision II. They are welcome to apply to other non-binding Early Action programs.

If you are not admitted in the Early Action round

Georgetown says it does not deny students under Early Action. If you are not admitted, your application is automatically given a full second review during Regular Decision. Typically, about 15 percent of deferred candidates are successful in that spring review; Georgetown gives no year for that figure.

Early Action is designed so that you can learn your result early in your final school year, and the Committee focuses on performance and achievements through the end of the junior year. Test scores from the September and October test dates typically arrive in time for consideration.

Does Early Action improve your odds?

No, by Georgetown's account. Its page says there is no statistical advantage in applying Early Action, because both pools will have roughly the same acceptance rate, and Georgetown generally uses the overall acceptance rate from the year before as the Early Action rate. Estimates of a higher Early Action rate that you may read elsewhere have no source on Georgetown's pages, and this report does not repeat them.

Yes: Georgetown requires submission of SAT and/or ACT scores for all candidates, including internationally based students, and every first-year applicant must send at least one full SAT or ACT test. The pages print this rule without naming an entry year, so we present it as Georgetown's standing policy and not as a rule written for Fall 2027.

A national diploma does not replace the test. Georgetown requires either SAT or ACT scores as part of the application process, and its FAQ says international students must still submit SAT or ACT scores. The international FAQ answers the question whether international students must submit them with "Yes, all applicants to the University must submit either SAT or ACT scores". A strong A-level, IB or baccalaureate record is read alongside the test, not instead of it.

The one exception

Georgetown describes a single exception: in exceptional cases where students are physically unable to access an SAT or ACT test center in their area, we can accept applications without SAT or ACT scores. Choosing not to test, or finding the test inconvenient, is not that case. As of October 2026, Georgetown's page says homeschooled applicants are required to submit SAT or ACT scores as part of the application process.

Because Georgetown does not accept superscores, sections from different sittings are not combined, so a single sitting that reads well in both EBRW and Math is what counts.

Does Georgetown publish a score range?

No. Georgetown's admissions pages publish no minimum score and no middle range for admitted students, so we state no target score. Any "competitive SAT" or "ACT" number you see elsewhere is not an official Georgetown figure, and this report does not repeat it.

Which test dates count

For Early Action, Georgetown says scores from the September and October test dates will typically arrive in time for consideration. These dates carry no year on the pages.

Georgetown's first-year timeline runs from an application that opens on June 1 (Georgetown Application) or August 1 (Common Application), through deadlines of November 1 for Early Action and January 1 for Regular Decision, to a reply date of May 1. Georgetown prints these dates without a year, so they are its standing calendar and not a confirmed schedule for your entry year.

The month-and-day dates above carry no year label, so confirm them in your application account.

Whether a date has already passed for you depends on the season you are in, and these pages do not tie any deadline to a calendar year. For that reason this report states no past or upcoming status for them.

Documents you submit

The essay prompts and the interview have their own chapters. Teachers and counselors who send material late are not shut out: Georgetown's FAQ says a late letter is considered as long as it is received within a few weeks of the application deadline. As of October 2026, Georgetown's page says applicants with an exemplary talent in the performing arts that they wish to pursue on campus are able to submit an additional supplement to their application.

After you apply

Once you have completed the application supplement, you can make necessary changes through the Georgetown Application Change Form. To add news for the Admissions Committee, you can submit a Student Submitted Update through the Upload Materials section of your Application Status Portal.

Georgetown requires a Writing Supplement of two short essays and two long essays: a short essay of 250 words, a personal or creative essay of 650 words, and a school-specific essay of 500 words. It also uses an alumni interview, which is required once you are assigned one.

Georgetown does not ask the "why Georgetown" question as a stand-alone short essay, although the school-specific essay comes close. The table shows the prompt for the first short essay and the two long essays from Georgetown's Application Requirements and Forms page; the second short essay is on the same page.

The school-specific essay

Essay 2 changes with the school you choose, so the choice of school shapes what you write. The School of Foreign Service asks you to describe your primary motivations for studying international affairs at Georgetown University. The McDonough School of Business asks you to describe your primary motivations for studying business at Georgetown University. Read the prompt for your own school on the Georgetown page before you draft.

Can you reuse your Common App essay?

Partly. Georgetown does not require the Common Application Personal Statement, but its FAQ says that if a student believes their statement fits the Essay 1 prompt, they are welcome to use it to answer that essay. Short essays and Essay 2 still have to be written for Georgetown.

Is an interview required?

Georgetown says alumni interviews are an important part of the first-year application process. You do not register for one. Submitting the initial portion of your application starts the process, and interviews are assigned between September and February; the FAQ adds that interviews begin to be assigned in September each year.

Once you are assigned an interviewer, you are required to complete the interview. It can happen both in person and virtually, and Georgetown says it has no preference. The interviewer submits an evaluative report that becomes part of your admissions file. Georgetown draws on over 7,500 alumni interviewers in its Alumni Admissions Program, organised in regional and virtual committees around the world.

Interviews for applicants abroad

Alumni are scarcer in some regions, so some international students will have the interview requirement waived because of a scarcity of available volunteers. Georgetown says that if your interview is waived, it will not have a negative effect on your admissions decision. Georgetown also accepts InitialView interviews, but they are not required and do not factor into the alumni interview process.

Georgetown recommends, but does not require results from an English language proficiency test for students who attend a school where English is not the language of instruction. The pages publish no minimum score for any test.

The recommendation is repeated across Georgetown's pages. The international applicants FAQ answers the question "are international students required to submit English language proficiency test scores?" with the same sentence: Georgetown recommends, but does not require a test. A second FAQ says that for students who do not attend an English language high school, English language testing is recommended.

Is there a minimum score?

No. Georgetown accepts these results to fulfill this recommendation and states no minimum for the Duolingo English Test, IELTS or TOEFL. Minimum scores quoted in some third-party guides are not on Georgetown's pages, so this report does not treat them as Georgetown's rules.

Because the test is advice and not a gate, the useful way to read it is as part of your file: if your school does not teach in English, a result is evidence that supports the rest of your application. If your school teaches in English, the recommendation, as Georgetown words it, does not apply to you.

Documents not in English

Applicants whose credentials are in another language should provide Georgetown with English-language translations of their original transcripts. The translation may be done by your high school, and all translated documents must be accompanied by the original documents.

Georgetown asks every applicant for academic credentials from their entire secondary school experience. It publishes no minimum grades for admission with the IB, A-levels or the French Baccalaureat; the score thresholds below concern credit.

The International Applicants page spells out the length: all applicants must submit academic credentials from their entire secondary school experience, so Georgetown tells students to plan to submit four years of academic credentials.

A-levels, the IB and the French Baccalaureat

If you will graduate from a system with final examinations, Georgetown names A-Levels, International Baccalaureate and the French Baccalaureat as examples. You need to submit projected and/or final results as part of the application.

These results must come to Georgetown directly from your secondary school, and eventually from the testing agency if you enrol at Georgetown. A predicted grade from your school therefore counts at the application stage, and the final result follows from the exam body.

How Georgetown reads a foreign diploma

Georgetown says applicants are reviewed within the context of the school and curriculum in which they are engaged, and that citizenship has no impact on the review. It does not publish a conversion table, an equivalent grade for your system or a minimum result, so any IB point total or A-level grade quoted as a Georgetown requirement comes from elsewhere.

A diploma does not replace the standardised test. Georgetown requires SAT and/or ACT scores for all candidates, including internationally based students, as the tests chapter explains.

As of October 2026, Georgetown's page asks homeschooled applicants for detailed information about their academic programme: this ideally includes a traditional transcript and course grades, and if that is not available, a detailed outline of the high school curriculum.

Georgetown has six undergraduate schools and two joint degree programs, not four, and you apply to only one of them, which becomes your academic home. Nursing and Health are separate schools, and the McCourt School of Public Policy offers a joint AB in Public Policy with the College.

The FAQ is clear that the choice is made at application: all applicants must apply directly to one of our six undergraduate schools and are considered only for that programme. Georgetown's page calls that school your academic home on matriculation.

Each row is scoped to its own school: the major-selection rules belong to the College of Arts & Sciences, and the eight majors to the SFS degree.

When you must choose a major

The answer depends on the school. In the College, humanities and social science students formally choose in their sophomore year, after a few semesters of academic exploration. Science students are different: because specific course sequencing and advising begins in their first year, the major is selected at the time of application. SFS says that most students will declare a major during sophomore year.

Capitol Campus joint programmes

Georgetown also admits students to joint degree programmes in the College. Students in these programmes reside at the Hilltop Campus for two years and at the Capitol Campus for two years. The joint AB in Public Policy offered with the McCourt School is one of them.

Joint degrees and switching schools

Students apply to enter the BGA program at the end of their first year and cannot double major. The SFS admissions page also notes that many students choose to apply for an internal transfer after their first year, so a move into SFS after enrolling exists, but the SFS admissions page does not say how hard it is.

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) in Doha is a separate campus: it offers a four year undergraduate program in international affairs leading to the BSFS degree.

Georgetown University School of Medicine and School of Dentistry building

Georgetown's admissions pages give no university-wide employment rate, salary figure or destination list, so we cannot give you one for Georgetown as a whole.

Internships and Washington, D.C.

Georgetown presents its Washington location as a career asset. Its main site invites students to intern on the Hill, consult pro-bono for an NGO or take time out for an embassy party in Washington.

Employment figures

This report quotes no employment rate, salary or employer list for Georgetown; ask your school's career office for its latest employment report before you decide.

Georgetown's first-year cost of attendance for 2026-2027 is $100,864 for a student living on or off campus, with tuition and fees of $74,732. Those are 2026-2027 figures, one year before a Fall 2027 start, and Georgetown's cost pages did not yet show 2027-2028 amounts as of October 2026.

The aid office's table gives separate columns for students living on or off campus, students living with parents, and Nursing students. Georgetown says the total includes allowances for the costs of full time enrollment for both fall and spring semesters. Every figure below is labelled 2026-2027 on the page.

The Nursing column differs in tuition and fees; its food line matches the first column. The table shows only the lines listed here, and the total is Georgetown's printed figure, not a sum of those lines.

Tuition on the student accounts page

The student accounts page prints tuition and mandatory fees of $37,260.00 per semester for Academic Year 2026-2027. Its amounts are labelled Fall 2026 and Spring 2027, which is the newest period on that page.

Health insurance and program fees

Health insurance is a separate item: Georgetown requires that all full-time students must have health insurance. The student accounts page lists Student Health Insurance, per year $4,450.00 for 2026-2027. Nursing and Health students also pay a $180.00 technology fee per semester.

The meal plan rule

The All Access 7 meal plan, plus $200 Flex dollars, is the required plan for first and second year students living on campus. If you plan to live on campus, the food line above is not optional spending.

Georgetown meets the full financial need of all eligible undergraduate students, and eligible students include all US citizens and permanent residents. Admitted students who request aid and are not US citizens or permanent residents will be considered for a very limited number of need-based scholarships, and Georgetown does not offer any academic or merit-based scholarships.

The financial aid office says financial aid for international students is extremely limited. Plan your family budget on the assumption that you pay most or all of the 2026-2027 cost of attendance shown in the cost chapter, and treat any award as a bonus.

How an international student applies for aid

To be considered, you must indicate your intent to apply for financial aid on the application for undergraduate admission and submit a CSS/Financial Aid Profile through the College Board. Georgetown's CSS school code is 5244.

The financial aid policies page says the FAFSA and CSS Financial Aid Profile must be submitted to Georgetown by February 1. The FAFSA is a US federal form, and the international applicants page asks only for the CSS Profile, so confirm which forms apply to you in your application account. Georgetown says all candidates for financial aid will be notified by the first week of April, and if you are offered a GU International Scholarship, you will receive an email with your award in early April. These dates carry no year on the pages.

What happens in later years

The international aid page warns: if you do not receive a scholarship in your first year, you will not be offered a scholarship in future years. Take this as a planning rule. Your first-year award decision is the one that matters, so do not enrol on the hope of aid later.

Scholarships, loans and the minimum contribution

Georgetown's scholarship page says it awards several hundred need-based scholarships each year, in a range from $1,000 to more than $60,000 per year, depending on need. That range covers eligible undergraduates in general, not international students only, so it does not tell you what an international award looks like.

• The Pedro Arrupe Scholarship for Peace was set up to enable international students with financial need to receive a Jesuit education at Georgetown; recipients are selected from the pool of admitted international students.
• The 1789 Scholarships provide $3,000 per year in loan relief, so students receive less loan and more grant aid.
• The undergraduate aid page lists a first-year minimum student contribution of $2,200, and says Georgetown expects it regardless of income. The page prints no year for it and does not say whether it applies to international awards.
• International students may wish to consider private education loans, and a lender may require a credit-worthy co-signer who is a US citizen or eligible non-citizen.

The aid office states that more than half of Georgetown's undergraduates receive some form of financial aid. That figure covers all undergraduates, so it should not be read as a sign that international applicants are likely to receive aid. Georgetown's Net Price Calculator is for US citizens and permanent residents only, so international families cannot use it for an estimate.

Georgetown's housing page lists 5 First Year Halls: Harbin, New South, Copley, Reynolds and Darnall. The same housing page also calls one hall one of four first-year residence hall options, so the page itself disagrees on the count.

The Residential Living site's first-year housing page names the same halls, among them Copley, Darnall, Harbin, New South and Reynolds. Because the count differs between pages (five on one line, four on another), check the first-year housing page for the list that applies to you before you rank halls.

Room rates for 2026-2027 are listed by hall and room type on the Residential Living rates page, per semester, charged in July for the fall and December for the spring; this report gives only the average housing figure from the cost table. All students are assessed a $200 deposit that is refunded, minus any damages, after the last semester in campus housing.

Room fees include all utilities (electric, gas, water, heat and air conditioning) and wireless internet. Students living on campus in their first and second years also face the meal plan rule: the All Access 7 meal plan, plus $200 Flex dollars, is the required plan for first and second year students living on campus.

Living Learning Communities

Georgetown lists 17 LLCs, Living Learning Communities on its housing page. Georgetown's housing pages give no residence requirement or housing guarantee for first-years, so confirm that point with Residential Living when you receive an offer.

Housing on the Capitol Campus

The Capitol Campus has apartments at 55 H Street. A resident must be a registered full-time graduate, professional or approved undergraduate student in good academic and financial standing to be eligible for housing there.

Georgetown says you can explore hundreds of student-run clubs and organizations, and it presents Washington as the epicenter of global politics and a city for "everything from arts to community-based work". These are Georgetown's own descriptions, not survey results.

Georgetown's clubs page lists 39 club sports, 127 advocacy and social justice clubs and 85 cultural groups, and it adds that Georgetown is home to six different a cappella groups. Those counts come from the university and may change; they show the range more than a fixed total.

Faith, service and study abroad

Georgetown is a Jesuit university, and its admissions site says that through Campus Ministry, students from all faith backgrounds can access services and support. The same site says hundreds of Hoyas participate in study abroad programs each year, including semester-long programmes, summer programmes and weeklong experiential learning courses.

Life in Washington, D.C.

Georgetown does not describe the campus as separate from the city. Its main site says Washington is also a dynamic city for everything from arts to community-based work.

Being an international student at Georgetown

Georgetown's admissions pages publish no survey results on international students' satisfaction, so they give a few signals, not a measurement:

• An official Student Life Blog post dated April 21, 2026 is a first-person account by a Georgetown student from Dubai. It describes small surprises, such as how casually people treated time and professors running discussions that wandered beyond the class material. It is one student's story, written for Georgetown's own site.
• The School of Foreign Service site carries a notice that Georgetown celebrates its international students, dated October 1, 2026.
• The international services office says International Student Ambassadors assist new international students in their transition to Georgetown.

Nothing on these pages rates Georgetown's social life against other universities, so treat them as a description of what exists and what Georgetown wants you to notice. Student groups, ministry and the ambassador programme are real services; how well they fit you is something to ask current students.

Georgetown's Office of Global Services (OGS) only processes immigration documents for international students who are fully admitted. Georgetown says the process of obtaining the Form I-20 or Form DS-2019 and applying for the F-1 or J-1 visa is not immediate, and that students are strongly encouraged to begin as soon as possible.

The early March date carries no year on the page and is the start of the request window for Fall entrants, not a deadline.

Who to contact

For questions about immigration requirements or how the document is issued, Georgetown tells students to contact the Office of Global Services at newinternational@georgetown.edu. Georgetown's pages do not publish a visa appointment timeline, an interview rule or a financial-proof amount, so follow the instructions in your admission letter and the US consulate's own guidance for those.

Arrival support

OGS and campus partners host pre-arrival webinars to help your transition. The new-student page also asks you to prepare through the International Student Orientation on Canvas and to plan to complete post-arrival requirements.

Immigration rule changes

OGS posts immigration news on its home page. One post reports that on September 14, 2026, a federal district court judge blocked the Department of Homeland Security's final rule eliminating Duration of Status (D/S) from taking effect nationwide. That ruling is a past event and the rules can change again, so read the current OGS page before you plan your arrival.

Health insurance

Georgetown requires that all full-time students must have health insurance. Eligible students are charged for and required to purchase the Premier Plan unless they timely waive with other coverage that meets the University's requirements. The cost chapter gives the 2026-2027 charge printed on the student accounts page.

Georgetown suits an international applicant who is ready to sit the SAT or ACT, can choose one of six undergraduate schools at application, and can fund most of the 2026-2027 first-year cost of attendance of $100,864 without a scholarship. Georgetown's own pages give a very limited number of need-based scholarships to students who are not US citizens or permanent residents.

Who it suits

• You are ready to take the test: Georgetown requires SAT and/or ACT scores from all candidates, including internationally based students.
• You know your school: applicants are considered only for the school they apply to, so the choice has to be made at application.
• Your family can pay: the 2026-2027 total of $100,864 is for a student living on or off campus, and Georgetown does not offer any academic or merit-based scholarships.

Who should think twice

Georgetown meets full demonstrated financial need for all US citizens and permanent residents, and it says that applying for aid does not negatively impact a student's chance of admission for them. For everyone else, aid is very limited, so a family that needs a full-need package should not rely on Georgetown to provide it.

This report does not compare Georgetown with other universities. Their policies are not on Georgetown's pages, so we do not state them here, and we list no overall ranking position.

Next steps

The table above carries no year, so confirm each date in your application account.

What to check on the official pages

• The Regular Decision deadline: the admissions office pages and the SFS page differ, so confirm which one applies to your school.
• The test and credential rules for your country on the International Applicants page.
• The cost of attendance for the year you enter: Georgetown's cost pages did not yet show 2027-2028 amounts as of October 2026.
• Your school's essay prompt and its recommendation rules.

All facts in this report come from Georgetown's own pages, checked in October 2026, and each number links to the page it came from.

Official pages of Georgetown University, UCAS, gov.uk and the ranking publishers. Applicant reports, where shown, are self-reported and labelled.

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