Graduate students may receive financial assistance through fellowships, assistantships, tuition support, or loans. For more information, see Financing Grad School, which describes the types of financial assistance available at UCF and provides general guidance in planning your graduate finances. The Financial Information section of the Graduate Catalog is another key resource.

Key points about financial support:

• If you're interested in financial assistance, you're strongly encouraged to apply for admission early. A complete application for admission, including all supporting documents, must be received by the priority date listed for your program under "Admissions." For the MFA in Film & Digital Media you should apply by January 15, 2008.

• You must be admitted to a graduate program before the university can consider awarding financial assistance to you.

• If you live in a state that is a member of the Southern Regional Education Board you may be eligible for Academic Common Market (ACM) consideration. The ACM allows a student to enroll in a graduate program at a university in another state without having to pay out-of-state tuition if that program of study is not offered by the public institutions in the student's home state. Visit www.sreb.org for additional information.

• If you want to be considered for loans and other need-based financial assistance, review the UCF Student Financial Assistance website at a href="http://finaid.ucf.edu">http://finaid.ucf.edu and complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form, which is available online at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov. Apply early and allow up to six weeks for the FAFSA form to be processed.

• UCF Graduate Studies awards university graduate fellowships, with most decisions based on nominations from the colleges and programs. All admitted graduate students are automatically considered in this nomination process. To be eligible for a fellowship, students must be accepted as a graduate student in a degree program and be enrolled full-time. To receive need-based fellowship awards, the student must have demonstrated need as determined by FAFSA. Merit fellowship awards are not affected by FAFSA determination of need.

• Please note that select fellowships do require students to fill out a fellowship application (either a university fellowship application, an external fellowship application, or a college or school fellowship application).

• For information on assistantships (including teaching, research, and general graduate assistantships) or tuition support, contact the graduate program coordinator of your major.

• UCF Financing Grad School Suggestions
• UCF Financial Information Overview
• UCF Student Financial Assistance website
• FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form

UCF FILM - M.F.A.
Dr. Mary Johnson, Graduate Coordinator
College of Arts & Humanities
P.O. Box 163120
Orlando, FL 32816-3120
407-823-4285
gradfilm@mail.ucf.edu