Johns Hopkins University Athletics

The NCAA has a terrific list of educational resources to assist prospective student-athletes and their families in navigating the initial eligibility process regardless of which level of NCAA athletics is being considered.

Division I

Incoming Division I student-athletes must create a Certification Account with the NCAA Eligibility Center in order to take an official visit to campus or to sign a National Letter of Intent. Additionally, all incoming Division I student-athletes must be certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center to compete during their first year of enrollment at Johns Hopkins. Additional information about the academic and amateurism requirements can be found here.

Division III

Incoming Division III student-athletes are not required to create a Certification Account with the NCAA Eligibility Center, but can choose to create a free Profile Page. In doing so, the prospective student-athlete will receive an NCAA ID and will receive important reminders from the NCAA while completing high school. 

Student-athletes go through the same application process as all other Johns Hopkins applicants. All admissions decisions are exclusively issued by an official written notification from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Coaches and others affiliated with Johns Hopkins Athletics are not authorized to offer admission, and they cannot guarantee or ensure admissions for any student, or 'predict' any particular student's likelihood of being admitted. The admissions committee conducts a well-rounded review of every applicant based on his or her accomplishments, goals, and potential impact within our community. 

While admissions decisions are made exclusively by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, coaches may communicate their support for candidates who are athletic recruits. Candidates are encouraged to ask coaches directly about the coach’s level of interest in them as potential athletic recruits, and should be prepared for coaches to inquire about the candidate’s level of interest as well. Coaches may indicate the extent to which a candidate’s interest will affect their willingness to support an application, so that candidates can make informed decisions about potential opportunities. Candidates should expect JHU coaches to be honest and forthcoming during the recruiting process. We ask candidates to be honest with coaches as well.

Please use the links below to learn more from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

The Application Process

Transfer Students

International Students

Common Admissions Questions

Visit Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University sponsors 22 NCAA Division III sports and two NCAA Division I sports (men’s and women’s lacrosse). Our men’s and women’s lacrosse programs are members of the Big Ten Conference and subscribe to the National Letter of Intent (NLI). Athletics scholarships are only available to our prospective Division I student-athletes who are offered an NLI to attend Johns Hopkins University.

All of our Division I and Division III student-athletes are able to apply for financial assistance in the same manner as other students at Johns Hopkins University. Part of our financial aid commitment is meeting 100% of demonstrated need with no-loan financial aid packages.

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Interested in reading more about some of the things our more than 700 varsity athletes are doing off the field/court? Here are just a few examples of the exciting extra-curricular activities our student-athletes are involved in:

A star Johns Hopkins baseball pitcher is splitting his summer between appearances on the mound and time in a lab with biotechnology firm HemoShear Therapeutics.

A Hopkins men's basketball player created a social activity platform that connects people to play recreational sports and discover local underutilized sports venues through mobile bookings and data analytics.

A Johns Hopkins women's cross country/track member spent the summer of 2016 assisting the city of Baltimore prepare initiatives to prevent the Zika virus.

Hopkins football player conducted research at the Johns Hopkins Division of Neuropathology, working on projects focused on traumatic brain injury.

Six-foot, six-inch tall Hopkins basketball player racks up thousands of YouTube views on his piano performance videos.

Women's lacrosse player studied tropical biology and evolution in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, examined environmental issues in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, helped set up a field clinic in a remote area of Honduras, and even shadowed surgeons at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Unofficial Visits to Hopkins

A prospective student-athlete may visit Hopkins at their own expense an unlimited number of times. In Division III sports these visits can occur at an time, while in Division I men’s and women’s lacrosse the first opportunity to take an unofficial visit with athletics department involvement is September 1st of the prospects junior year in high school. Hopkins coaches must document the details of a prospective student-athletes’ unofficial visit to Johns Hopkins via ARMS prior to visit taking place.

 Official Visits to Hopkins

Hopkins may only provide one official visit to its campus for a prospective student-athlete and Division I prospective student-athletes are limited to five total official visits during their recruitment. For Division III sports, the first opportunity to take an official visit is January 1 of the prospect’s junior year of high school, while in Division I lacrosse PSA’s are allowed to take an official visit as of September 1 of the prospect’s junior year. The length of an official visit is not to exceed 48 hours beginning with the time the PSA arrives on campus. A  prospective  student-athlete  on  an  official  visit  shall  be  provided  lodging  and take  meals  as  regular  students  normally  do.  Local  commercial  facilities  may  be  used  but  at  a  scale  comparable  to  that  of  normal student  life  and  only  within  a  30-mile  radius  of  the  institution's  campus.

Hopkins coaches must document the details of a prospective student-athletes’ official visit and request approval from their sport administrator and the compliance office on ARMS prior the an official visit taking place. For Division I PSA’s, you must register with the NCAA Eligibility Center, provide Hopkins Athletics with your high school transcripts, and be placed on Hopkins’ IRL list with the NCAA Eligibility Center prior to your official visit being approved.