The state attorney general and his staff are visiting high schools to clue students in to new efforts to protect them from unscrupulous college loan practices, and Nottingham’s turn came Wednesday.
Leslie Leach, executive deputy attorney general for state counsel, handed out copies of a new Student Bill of Rights to 20 or so students who [...]

Sallie Mae Senior Vice President Barry Goulding today testified at the Senate Banking Committee hearing, ‘Paying for College: The Role of Private Student Lending’ to demonstrate how Sallie Mae serves students and parents in the private education loan market.
Goulding emphasized Sallie Mae’s ‘1-2-3 approach’ to paying for college: 1) after tapping personal financial resources such [...]

Starting July 1, interest rates for older Stafford and PLUS loans will rise 0.08 percentage points. For borrowers of the need-based Stafford loans who are still in school, interest rates will rise to 6.62 percent, while PLUS loan rates will rise to 8.02 percent, according to student-loan provider Sallie Mae. For those who have already [...]

Your education is the key to launching your future. After you enter the professional world you leave the college years behind to focus on your career goals. But one thing most people can’t leave behind are student loans. Don’t let this burden continue to weigh you down, make student loan consolidation a priority on your [...]

Phoenix-based NextStudent, a premier education funding company, offers a Graduate PLUS Loan Program that extends directly to graduate and professional students the same benefits that traditional PLUS loans extend to the parents of undergraduate students. As a federally sponsored student loan that offers generous borrowing limits, student borrowers can cover the full cost of their [...]

Experience, Inc., the leading provider of career services for students and alumni, today announced the findings from its 2006 “College Life – Finances & Banking” survey. Experience polled more than 4,800 students from colleges and universities nationwide to learn about their use of credit cards and how they choose banks and loans during school.
In addition [...]

When Jeremy Hynd graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2004, he applied to consolidate $44,000 in student loans. With interest rates then at record lows, consolidation offered the opportunity to lock in a 2.5% rate for the life of the loan.
But Hynd discovered that $27,000 of his loans weren’t eligible for federal loan consolidation because they [...]

The homework begins for today’s college students long before they set foot in a university lecture hall. The late nights start with poring over an increasing array of student loan options. “A big part of getting to college and staying in college is figuring out who offers the best interest rate, who offers the best [...]

Many parents who want to help their children with college costs are not aware that funds still are available before the fall semester begins. With PLUS Loans — Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students, funds up to the full cost of college with rates as low as 6.25 percent are available throughout the year through Phoenix-based [...]

A recent article in the New York Times highlighted what many students already knew — that not only was college getting more expensive, but the amount of federal aid available to students is not keeping up with rising education costs.
A revision and update to the EFC, or Expected Family Contribution, formula for the 2005-2006 school [...]