The residency office doesn't do that automatically. They really look at students that have lived here for a year not attending school and who plan to stay here after school. If you're just here in Texas going to school, they're not apt to reclassify you as a resident, so you really have to truly establish residency in Texas. Twenty-two percent of UT's class is comprised of foreigners. Yes, but there are really none that are designed specifically for them.
Students can also apply for competitive loans.
It's up to them, although there are two main private loans that the business students at Texas tend to apply to. Those two outfits provide competitive rates for UT students. I just really suggest that students do research in the reference section of their library. They have scholarship books that you can look through, and these books have every type of outside scholarship available. On the Web, there's a really good site that I recommend called fastWEB .