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Financial Resources

Any applicant who expects to hold an F1 (student) or J1 (exchange visitor) visa should submit the Financial Resource Certification (FRC) form.

What to do

  1. Complete FRC Part 1 and send it to us with your application materials.
  2. FRC Part 2 and supporting documents are necessary only if:
    • you are recommended for admission
      and
    • you must provide some or all of the required amount of funding

Costs

The FRC lists estimated costs of attendance and living expenses, as well as optional costs such as summer tuition and supporting a spouse or dependent. Additional information on costs is available on our tuition and fees page and from UNL's Student Accounts.

Why this is necessary

For your visa interview and to enter the United States, you need a Form I-20 or Form DS-2019 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

SEVIS allows UNL to create your I-20 or DS-2019 only after we confirm with documentation that you will have sufficient funds available for the first nine-month academic year.

Typical sources

Funding for graduate study typically comes from one or more of the following sources:
  • graduate assistantship
  • scholarship from a university or government agency in the student's home country
  • personal or family sources