Graduating college students across the country recently have received their degrees and are taking their first steps into the real world, which includes repaying their student loans. According to NextStudent, a leading Phoenix-based education funding company, composing a strategy for repaying college student debt is simple, once borrowers are armed with accurate, easily applicable information.
Fortunately, [...]
2Futuro is pleased to announce the awards of two scholarships of $1,000 each to Mayra Alvarez, a student at California State University, Los Angeles, and Jason Gates, a student at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. They are the first recipients of scholarships awarded through random monthly drawings that 2Futuro conducts [...]
If you plan to graduate from college this spring, your mailbox may soon be filled with congratulatory cards from family friends, checks from distant relatives and reminders from your alma mater that your diploma will be rescinded unless you pay your overdue parking tickets. But if you borrowed to pay for college, much of your [...]
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 [...]
OneSimpleLoan® http://www.OneSimpleLoan.com, a student loan finance and consulting firm specializing in student loan consolidation, today announced that President & CEO Paul J. Simino is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2007 Award in the Florida region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs [...]
You’ve got the college degree, and now you’re stressed about what do to with the debt.
“Even if your student loans exceed your annual salary — which is, unfortunately, a common phenomenon these days — you can knock down those debts and start to regain control of your financial life,†says Lynnette Khalfani in her new [...]
It’s a good thing you got that college education. You can put it to good use navigating the complex maze that is the student loan industry as you consider whether to consolidate your federal student loans.
For those who have never done it, it’s a question that comes up every year in anticipation of the [...]
Everyone knows that getting an education is expensive. Student loans are available to most students for tuition, but what about the other expenses? You need books and supplies, a lap top as well as funds for room and board. To make matters even more challenging; should you decide to take on a full load of [...]
A White Paper describing a new educational loan program has been released by a group of school financial aid administrators. The paper urges all entities involved in student loans to rethink the structure of the student loan programs.
Loans have become the major college financing option for students and parents, but as currently structured, these [...]
The Higher Education Act mandates that colleges cannot require students to fund Federal Family Education Loan Program loans through the preferred lenders suggested by their financial aid offices. Therefore, students and parents should keep in mind that it is their decision when it comes to which company funds their FFELP student loans including the subsidized [...]
Loan consolidation is an important step in dealing with your student debt. AMSA members are eligible for the AMSA (American Medical Student Association) Loan Consolidation Program. It is important to understand loan consolidation and the real terms of any loan or consolidation contract. I want to provide you with some general information about loan consolidation [...]
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 [...]