Friends of Mapping Your Future

Friends of Mapping Your Future offer financial support to this award-winning, public service web site that provides career, college, financial aid, and financial literacy information and services for students, families, and schools. Mapping Your Future is thankful for their support.

Academic Finance Corporation
www.academicfinancing.com
Academic Finance Corporation (AFC) is a member of the Brazos Group of companies - a leading not-for-profit student lending organization. Our passion for higher education distinguishes us as an advocate for student and parent borrowers, as well as the financial aid community, providing a full suite of education loan products, borrower benefit programs and interest rate reduction plans. We strive to make the student loan experience simple, customer-friendly, and easy to manage.
ALL Student Loan

www.allstudentloan.org
ALL Student Loan is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable access to higher education for students and their families. They are the sixth largest student loan lender in California and currently hold more than $1 billion in student loan assets. Since 1980, ALL Student Loan has made available more than $3 billion in financing for hundreds of thousands of students.

Arizona Federal Credit Union

 

Brazos Student Lending

 

Chase

www.StudentLoanNet.com
As a leader in education finance with more than 40 years of experience, Chase offers dedicated service and support with premier customer service, unparalleled customized services and technology, retail banking products and services tailored just for students, and a suite of Value Added Services for borrowers and colleges and universities nationwide.

We offer both federal and private loans and work with several industry partners to offer special money-saving borrower benefits.  In 2004, we originated more than 6.4 billion in education loans under the Chase and Bank One brands, making us the nation's largest originator in the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

Citibank

www.studentloan.com
Citibank, through its subsidiary, The Student Loan Corporation, is among the leading originators, holders and servicers of Federal and private loans. Since 1958 we've been providing students and their families with the help they need to afford the school of their choice.

Our wide range of products and services benefits students, parents and schools. Our interactive web site makes every step of the college planning and financial aid process easier including information on choosing and applying to the right college, where to search for free money, a month-by-month college planner, budget calculators, online loan applications and much more. We believe that an education is an investment with lifelong returns and our goal is to help students do great things.

CollEDGE

CollEDGE Loans is LoanSTAR's national full service student loan brand. CollEDGE Loans provides the government Stafford subsidized and unsubsidized Loans, as well as the Parent PLUS Loan. In addition to the standard guaranteed CollEDGE Loans, provides EDGEucational Loans (a private label student loan) to meet the financial aid needs of students and parents who require more assistance than the traditional products provide. CollEDGE Loans is also an industry leader in providing borrower incentive program like its Most Valuable Payer (MVP) program. With CollEDGE Loans, students and parents also receive quality state-of-the-art loan originations and servicing from the first day the loan is funded to the day the last payment is made. Get the college edge with high education financing products and options you deserve with CollEDGE Loans, visit our Web site.

College Loan Corporation

www.collegeloancorp.com
College Loan Corporation, headquartered in San Diego, is the nation's seventh largest student loan provider, managing more than $9 billion in student loan assets. The Company has helped more than 700,000 students and families pay for college. More than 900 colleges and universities have designated College Loan Corporation as a preferred lender. College Loan Corporation makes higher education possible through innovative loan products and industry-leading, first-class customer service. The Company also offers the nation's best student loan advice line.

Commerce Bank

www.commercebank.com/personal/personalloans/educationloan.asp
Commerce Bank has been making student loans for more than 40 years, and our friendly, professional service makes all the difference. Financial aid can be a complicated process, but we can help make it simple. We will guide you through the process step-by-step.

COSTEP
www.costep.org
COSTEP is a nonprofit organization founded in 1972. Its mission is to offer student loans, loan servicing, marketing and administrative support services, and information on financing a post-secondary. COSTEP assists all parties involved, including lenders, borrowers, public schools, post-secondary institutions and higher education authorities. Today, COSTEP is working with more than 60 financial institutions, visits schools all across Central and South Texas, assisting students on finding ways to finance a post-secondary education.
Edfinancial Services
edfinancial.com
Edfinancial Services is a national student loan provider whose mission is to expand access to higher education. We are committed to enhancing the lives of students and families while exceeding the expectations of schools by offering a variety of specialized loan products that benefit all borrowers. Since 1988, Edfinancial Services has made the All-American Dream accessible through low-cost student loans and repayment incentives. Borrowers have access to college planning and financial aid resources at eCampusTours.com, as well as extraordinary life-of-loan servicing.
Education Finance Partners
EducationFinancePartners.com
Dedicated exclusively to providing private education loans that bridge the gap between traditional financial aid and the total cost of a higher education, Education Finance Partners offers private loan programs with high approval rates, a streamlined application process and dedicated knowledgeable specialists to help guide you through the process. 

We're here to help more students get the money they need to achieve the education they deserve.

Educational Direct

app.educationaldirect.net
Educational Direct provides personalized service, advice and solutions to students and parents. Their mission is to make sure more students have the chance to realize the benefits of the finest, most wide-reaching higher education system in the world.

Their loan programs represent an enormous opportunity to America's students and their families as they search for new ways to cover the growing cost of tuition at both public and private institutions.

Their total package of quick response and customer care empowers students to move ahead confidently with their plans for higher education no matter what their circumstance.

Their lender partners stand as leaders in originating and servicing private educational financing. To that end they have trained an expert staff to collectively field every educational loan question under the sun and guide students towards smart financing for their degree and eventually their dreams. Each borrower they speak to will leave their experience with Educational Direct with even more hope for their educational ambitions and more importantly a plan to make them reality.

They look forward to working with you.

EFSI
www.efsi.net
EFSI is a member of the Brazos Group of companies - a leading not-for-profit student lending organization. Our passion for higher education distinguishes us as an advocate for student and parent borrowers, as well as the financial aid community, providing a full suite of education loan products, borrower benefit programs and interest rate reduction plans. We strive to make the student loan experience simple, customer-friendly, and easy to manage.
IDAPP
www.idapp.com/index.html
The Illinois Designated Account Purchase Program (IDAPP) was created in 1977 as a key division of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. As "Student Loan Experts", IDAPP is nationally recognized as a leader in the Educational Finance Industry.
Indiana Secondary Market for Education Loans, Inc.

www.ismloans.org/index.html
Since 1980, Indiana Secondary Market for Education Loans, Inc. (ISM) has helped thousands of students and families pay for higher eduation with the most affordable loans ever.

ISM is Indiana's designated not-for-profit provider of education loan services. Since its inception in 1980, ISM has purchased over $1.5 billion in guaranteed education loans thereby assisting thousands of Indiana students and families. The Corporation has provided the State of Indiana over $50 million to fund education efforts. ISM's mission is to encourage Indiana students to participate in higher education by making education more affordable.

ISM's objective is to encourage postsecondary education by making college more affordable, enabling students and families to save thousands of dollars on their lower-cost loans.  Customer service is also a top priority at ISM to ensure that all customers always receive great service.

Key Bank

www.keybank.com/educate
Key Education Resources (c) - Helping families make the right choices Planning for school funding can seem like an education in itself. Whether you or your child is going to K-12 independent school, starting college, entering a graduate school, or beginning a technology career, we have the right program. Key has helped students and families finance education for more than 40 years. Let us help you!

Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority

www.mistudentloans.com
The Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority (MHESLA) was established by Act 222 of the Public Acts of 1975, as amended.

MHESLA has maintained a longstanding commitment to service Michigan students and schools. MHESLA primarily finances its programmatic and administrative operations from the issuance of tax-exempt and taxable bonds, interest income, and federal special allowance payments. There are no state appropriations required for the administration of the programs it administers. As a Lender and a State Secondary Market, MHESLA provides student loans through both FFELP and the MI-LOAN Program. These programs include: 

MOHELA
www.mohela.com
MOHELA is one of the top 10 holders and servicers of student loans in America, with more than $4.5 billion in assets, and purchase activity in excess of $1.2 billion per year. MOHELA provides students with needed capital to finance their education through its partnerships with local, regional, and nationwide lending institutions.
Nelnet

www.nelnet.net
For 28 years, Nelnet has been helping the education-seeking family plan for their education, pay for their education, and prepare for their careers. The company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in products, services, and technology improvements for students and the educational institutions they attend. These services include live counseling to help families through all aspects of the financial aid process, benefits for borrowers, including tens of millions of dollars in fee reductions, and Nelnet sponsored scholarships. Nelnet serves students in 50 states, employs approximately 4,000 associates, and has $23.8 billion in net student loan assets.

New Mexico Educational Assistance Foundation (NMEAF)
www.nmstudentloans.org
The New Mexico Educational Assistance Foundation (NMEAF) is a non-profit organization founded to improve educational opportunities for students seeking a postsecondary education. NMEAF is the largest lender for the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) in the state of New Mexico.
NextStudent
www.nextstudent.com
NextStudent believes that getting an education is the best investment you can make. Our commitment is to make college funding simple. To that goal, we offer one-on-one education finance counseling, our NextStudent Scholarship Search Engine, and a full portfolio of highly competitive low cost federal and private loans.
Panhandle-Plains Higher Education Authority (PPHEA)
www.ppslc.com
Priority Technologies, Inc.
www.prioritytech.com
Priority Technologies, Inc., established in 1995, is a leading provider of technology-based business solutions for the FFELP community. PTI helps FFELP organizations by providing world-class guaranty and lending system solutions, custom training and mentoring, and advanced business consulting. Further information is available at www.prioritytech.com.
Regent

www.regenteducation.com
With nearly 30 years of higher education knowledge and experience, Regent is a leading provider of financial aid management software solutions for higher education institutions. Its highly functional, affordable, off-the-shelf solutions are designed to interoperate with and enhance existing ERP systems, while enabling institutions to realize a positive quantifiable ROL in the same fiscal period they are deployed. Built with financial aid offices in mind, Regent enables users to gain access to actionable information, anytime and anywhere.

With growing pressures for higher education institutions to achieve operational excellence, Regent's vision is to use their financial aid management solutions to empower financial aid to be a front line strategic initiative instead of the back office administration function it is perveived as today.

Regions Bank
www.regions.com
Rhode Island Student Loan Authority
www.risla.com
SallieMae
www.salliemae.com
SimpleTuition, Inc.

www.simpletuition.com
SimpleTuition is dedicated to making sense out of the universe of education financing choices by applying user friendly technology to the process of searching for and selecting financial aid.  SimpleTuition works with college financial aid officials to empower preferred lender lists with dynamic calculator and comparison functionality so that students and families can use SimpleTuition?s loan comparison tools to make the right education loan choice for their situation.

Southwest Student Services Corporation
www.sssc.com
Southwest Student Services Corporation is known nationally for providing superior quality service, money-saving benefits and exceeding customer expectations in the area of education finance. For over 22 years, Southwest has helped more than one million people reach their education goals by assisting students and families with early planning for college and with the financing of college, graduate, post-graduate and continuing education programs. In addition to our free online "Education Toolbox," which features college planning and school selection tips, admissions test preparation and a searchable database of over 1.6 million scholarships, Southwest offers financial aid counseling, a variety of federal and private student loan products, loan consolidation and life-of-loan servicing. For additional information about Southwest Student Services Corporation, please visit us online or call us toll free at (800) 367-2369.
Student Assistance Foundation of Montana
www.safservices.org
Student Assistance Foundation of Montana is a nonprofit organization providing students with the knowledge and assistance to finance and pursue their postsecondary education.
Student Funding Group, LLC. (StuFund)
www.stufund.com
Student Funding Group, LLC. (StuFund), is an educational loan originator and knowledge center for students and families who want simple, straightforward guidance through the complex financial aid system. The first minority-owned student loan enterprise, StuFund is built around the philosophy that each and every student, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, age or disability, can and should have access to higher education. It's our mission to do everything we can to make sure this happens. We believe that if a student has the desire to pursue a college degree, they should be able to find the means.
Student Loan Finance Corporation (SLFC)
www.slfc.com
As a secondary market for student loans, SLFC's only business is student loans. Working with students, lenders, schools and guarantors ensures adequate capital is available for eligible students who desire higher education. Since 1979, SLFC has been providing capital for lenders, support for schools and guarantors and superior customer service to students.
Student Loan Xpress
www.studentloanxpress.com
Student Loan Xpress Inc. is a unique lender that provides students parents and schools, with easy-to-use tools, student loan programs and services. Student Loan Xpress is committed to providing smart lending solutions in combination with outstanding customer service. Student Loan Xpress offers the Grad Partners Program, which helps schools become their own lender, and the Consolidation Assistance Program, with its borrower-friendly reduced-rate Federal Consolidation Loan.
Studentloans.com

www.studentloans.com
Studentloans.com is a not-for-profit student lending company established to provide borrowers with convenient online access to a variety of competitive loan products. Regardless of where you live in the United States or where the college of choice is located, we will facilitate the often complex process of applying for and receiving an education financing loan ? saving you time and money, based on our attractive borrower benefits.

SunTrust Bank
www.suntrusteducation.com
SunTrust Bank has been helping students achieve their education dreams for more than 30 years. Whether it's our variety of federal and private loans, attractive borrower benefits, various data and funds disbursement capabilities, or our partnerships with major guarantors and servicers, SunTrust Bank has something to offer every school and borrower.
TCF National Bank
www.tcfexpress.com/PersonalBanking/pb_education_loans_home.jsp
TCF National Bank is an affiliate of TCF Financial Corporation, a financial holding company with headquarters in Minnesota and offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Colorado and Indiana. TCF's goal is to be the most convenient bank in the markets they serve.
Total Higher Education (T.H.E.) Loan Program

www.theloanprogram.org
Total Higher Education (T.H.E.) is a product of NorthStar, a national, nonprofit lender offering federal and private student loans. Their mission is simple: to help students lower the cost of financing a higher education. Through their real, reliable and predictable loan programs, they have pursued that mission by returning nearly $200 million to student-borrowers in  the form of zero fees and repayment benefits over the last 10 years.

From loan disbursement through repayment, their borrowers benefit from: highly qualified customer service people, quick response times, borrower-friendly interest capitalization policy, and free, lender-neutral borrower education tools that help students make smart choices. And because they never sell loans, their borrowers call only one lender over the life of their loan.

They specialize in medical, law, MBA, health professions and other graduate programs as well as undergraduate students.

U.S. Bank
www.usbank.com/studentbanking
U.S. Bank is one of the top student banking institutions in the nation, providing a comprehensive line of student banking products including student loans, campus ID card programs, Internet banking, U.S. Bank student checking and savings, and Visa Buxx (c) - prepaid spending cards. U.S. Bank Student Loans offers quality toll-free customer service, state-of-the-art loan processing, online application accessibility, and a variety of repayment options that offer savings to borrowers. Student loan products include Federal Stafford, PLUS, Consolidation, and Supplemental education loans. The U.S. Bank website offers the full array of student banking products, services and paying for college information as well as an internet scholarship program and scholarship search engine.
Vangent
Wachovia Education Finance
www.wachovia.com/education 
Wachovia Education Finance (formerly Educaid) offers a wide range of education loan options with personal service and fast access to funds. As one of the largest student loan providers in the country, Wachovia offers loans for undergraduates and their parents, graduate and professional students, international students, and even students traveling abroad. Students and parents with multiple education loans may also consolidate their loans with a low-cost Consolidation Loan from Wachovia. For more information and free financial aid information, call Wachovia Education Finance toll-free at 800-338-2243 or visit them online.
Wells Fargo
www.wellsfargo.com
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified financial services company - providing banking, insurance, wealth management and estate planning, investments, mortgage and consumer finance from more than 5,400 stores, the world's leading Internet banking site and other distribution channels across North America and elsewhere internationally.
Western States Learning Corporation

www.loanwslc.com

A division of Western States Learning Corporation

Helping Others Achieve Success

 Loan Servicing, a division of Western States Learning Corporation, is the loan servicing agent for Wyoming Student Loan Corporation (WyoLoan), First Education FCU, Trona Valley FCU, and UniWyo FCU.  Loan Servicing also administers the Wyoming Teacher Shortage Loan Repayment Program (TSLRP) and the Wyoming Investment in Nursing Program (WYIN) for the State of Wyoming.  Western States Learning Corporation is a private, nonprofit corporation that partners with lenders to service their student loan portfolios. They are proud to offer premier service to our partners and their customers - you!

 

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