diff --git a/src/transformers/models/vit/modeling_vit.py b/src/transformers/models/vit/modeling_vit.py
index 4ccdd1deaf4ca1..1441f4a5e6bf80 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/vit/modeling_vit.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/vit/modeling_vit.py
@@ -239,6 +239,30 @@ def forward(
         return outputs
 
 
+class ViTSdpaSelfAttention(ViTSelfAttention):
+    def __init__(self, config: ViTConfig) -> None:
+        super().__init__(config)
+        self.attention_probs_dropout_prob = config.attention_probs_dropout_prob
+
+    def forward(
+        self, hidden_states, head_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, output_attentions: bool = False
+    ) -> Union[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor], Tuple[torch.Tensor]]:
+        mixed_query_layer = self.query(hidden_states)
+
+        key_layer = self.transpose_for_scores(self.key(hidden_states))
+        value_layer = self.transpose_for_scores(self.value(hidden_states))
+        query_layer = self.transpose_for_scores(mixed_query_layer)
+        
+        context_layer = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(query_layer, key_layer, value_layer, head_mask,
+         self.attention_probs_dropout_prob if self.training else 0.0, is_causal=False, scale=None)
+
+        context_layer = context_layer.permute(0, 2, 1, 3).contiguous()
+        new_context_layer_shape = context_layer.size()[:-2] + (self.all_head_size,)
+        context_layer = context_layer.view(new_context_layer_shape)
+
+        return context_layer, None
+
+
 class ViTSelfOutput(nn.Module):
     """
     The residual connection is defined in ViTLayer instead of here (as is the case with other models), due to the
@@ -296,6 +320,12 @@ def forward(
         return outputs
 
 
+class ViTSdpaAttention(ViTAttention):
+    def __init__(self, config: ViTConfig) -> None:
+        super().__init__(config)
+        self.attention = ViTSdpaSelfAttention(config)
+
+
 class ViTIntermediate(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, config: ViTConfig) -> None:
         super().__init__()
@@ -327,6 +357,12 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, input_tensor: torch.Tensor) -> to
         return hidden_states
 
 
+VIT_ATTENTION_CLASSES = {
+    "eager": ViTAttention,
+    "sdpa": ViTSdpaAttention,
+}
+
+
 class ViTLayer(nn.Module):
     """This corresponds to the Block class in the timm implementation."""
 
@@ -334,7 +370,7 @@ def __init__(self, config: ViTConfig) -> None:
         super().__init__()
         self.chunk_size_feed_forward = config.chunk_size_feed_forward
         self.seq_len_dim = 1
-        self.attention = ViTAttention(config)
+        self.attention = VIT_ATTENTION_CLASSES[config._attn_implementation](config)
         self.intermediate = ViTIntermediate(config)
         self.output = ViTOutput(config)
         self.layernorm_before = nn.LayerNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.layer_norm_eps)
@@ -431,6 +467,7 @@ class ViTPreTrainedModel(PreTrainedModel):
     main_input_name = "pixel_values"
     supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
     _no_split_modules = ["ViTEmbeddings", "ViTLayer"]
+    _supports_sdpa = True
 
     def _init_weights(self, module: Union[nn.Linear, nn.Conv2d, nn.LayerNorm]) -> None:
         """Initialize the weights"""
diff --git a/tests/models/vit/test_modeling_vit.py b/tests/models/vit/test_modeling_vit.py
index 7298543a563438..0a0f9da1b27f67 100644
--- a/tests/models/vit/test_modeling_vit.py
+++ b/tests/models/vit/test_modeling_vit.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     require_torch,
     require_torch_accelerator,
     require_torch_fp16,
+    require_torch_sdpa,
     require_vision,
     slow,
     torch_device,
@@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ class ViTModelTest(ModelTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
     test_pruning = False
     test_resize_embeddings = False
     test_head_masking = False
+    has_attentions = False
 
     def setUp(self):
         self.model_tester = ViTModelTester(self)