…  paying off college loans? You should know the interest rates on federal loans are headed higher – …  Stafford loans and Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students, or PLUS loans. Financial aid experts expect interest rates, pegged to …  the deadline day when its phone and fax lines were jammed with more than 33,000 calls. Loan consolidation combines several loans into …

…  year ago, hundreds of thousands of students rushed to take advantage of a loophole allowing them to consolidate their student loans before they graduated and lock in the lowest interest rates in the …  giant SLM, also known as Sallie Mae, is offering borrowers with a balance of at least $10,000 a rate discount of 1 percentage point on …

…  it increasingly likely that interest rates on existing student loans, which are tied to the 91-day T-bill and reset on May 30, will rise by …

…  is a big change coming to the federal student loan program, and according to officials, students who miss the July 1 …  the current system, students can consolidate their federal loans repeatedly while they’re still in school. On July 1, students will no …  said she would not have been able to go to school without loans. “They have been very, very important throughout all of my …

…  Finance, one of the top-10 student-loan providers in the nation today introduced the Federal PLUS Loan for …  are enrolled at least half-time. This loan is available with special discounts from Wachovia, including an immediate reduced fixed …  Wachovia also offers the Federal Stafford Loan and private loans such as the Wachovia Education Loan(SM). Students may apply for a …

…  of when the money will be needed. Federal education loans have long been counted on by many families to finance at least a portion …  market-sensitive variable rate for a popular program that students and parents have used to consolidate their loans. But the most …

…  are promoting a bill to cut the interest rates for student loans in half in response to large budget cuts made to student aid earlier this …

…  look at your options for consolidating federal education loans. And if you’re in the borrowing stage, be prepared to pay more. On July 1, we officially say goodbye to the era of record low student loan rates. Today’s rates are the fourth lowest in the program’s …

…  year ago, students and parents who borrowed to cover college costs rushed to lock in the …  in four decades. Now those who haven’t consolidated their loans under the federal student-loan program are being urged to do so before …  Sallie Mae in Reston, Va., counsels to check your options with your school’s financial aid office and dig deeply into lender-benefit …

…  student loan borrowers are listening to industry experts by taking advantage of …  borrowers to lower their monthly payments. Consolidation with a fixed interest rate means borrowers could expect to cut their monthly …  more than 31,000 borrowers who have consolidated their loans, and we expect to help an additional 13,000 to 15,000 borrowers …