---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1011e"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1011e"
heading: "Financial responsibility of foreign students"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1011e"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
  - "Part B — Additional General Provisions"
---

# §1011e. Financial responsibility of foreign students


Nothing in this chapter or any other Federal law shall be construed to prohibit any [institution of higher education](/usc/20/1001.md?p=a) from requiring a student who is a foreign national (and not admitted to permanent residence in the United States) to guarantee the future payment of tuition and fees to such institution by—

- (1) making advance payment of such tuition and fees;
- (2) making deposits in an escrow account administered by such institution for such payments; or
- (3) obtaining a bond or other insurance that such payments will be made.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–329, title I, § 116, as added Pub. L. 105–244, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1593.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1145c of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–244.

A prior section 1011e, Pub. L. 89–329, title I, § 126, as added Pub. L. 102–325, title I, § 101, July 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 464, related to State administrative costs, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–244.