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Types Of Student Loans

By Exforsys | on January 10, 2007 |
Student Loans

Types Of Student Loans

Student loans are perhaps one of the most sought after aids that students from anywhere in the world would pursue to attain a decent education. Loans are known to help financially distressed parties, noting that the challenging times have been hitting most families hard to date.

Valued education is one of the hardest things to finance, hence the presence of such student loans depending on the degree and classification, are offered to help these groups out. There are various types of loans and these include federal and personal loans. Both are aimed similarly to providing the necessary assistance with corresponding interest rates as given by government agencies and private finance corporations to a certain allowable capacity.

Loans are primarily needed to finance all aspects of education, including undergraduate and graduate students who seek the proper educational attainment for overall individual growth and knowledge.

Federal Stafford Loans

A type of loan that can be issued from a bank, credit union or from government offices, these are loans awarded based on the actual financial assistance requirements of students and handled by the government as a whole. Offering subsidized assistance where loans are bankrolled by the government for the duration in times of probable late settlement or payments for the premiums set.

This loan usually focuses on long-term loans for students who are financially incapacitated at times. The beauty of the flexibility of this type of loan is that it allows people to be more at ease and those payments can be postponed at times as well. Usually, it is the independent students who would avail of such a loan considering that they need to secure a much coveted education for their future.

Federal Student Loans

This is perhaps the most basic and flexible type of student loan anyone can avail of. Backed by the US government, Federal student loans go as far as assisting students through competitive interest rates and flexibility as far as settlement is concerned.

Such interest rates are regulated by congress and are known to be a whole lot lower compared to the private or personal loans that most would have to resort to in times where the federal loans cannot accommodate the requested loans of certain students.

The best part of the flexibility of this loan that it extends up to the actual graduation or completion day of most students, making them ideal for people in need of financial assistance in the course of attaining the desired degree.

Federal Plus Loans

Federal plus loans are geared towards providing assistance to people who have siblings that are taking up their college degrees. With low interest rates for the loans acquired, these are based on credit history and the actual cost of attendance of students in the college level. The repayment scheme after the federal loan approval would ideally commence 30 to 60 days after loan approval or in some cases after completing the degree.

Federal Perkins Loan

A risky type of loan for people who are in relatively tight credit situation is what the Federal Perkins loan offers. While the interest rates are still expected to be low, there is close monitoring in this aspect considering that given the situation of financial status as the gauge, credit monitoring is needed to ensure viability of the disbursed funds for educational assistance aid.

True that this type of loan is risky in the sense and could go as far as damaging the overall credit reliability of people who would truly need assistance, it is something that people can turn to. While the approved amount may not be ideal for parents who want the best educational attainment for their kids, this is an extreme alternative in terms of financial aid loans for proper educational attainment of students.

Private Student Loans

It is a fact that not all student loans can be accommodated by the federal financial aid. This is where an alternative in the form of private student loans sets in.

Offering almost the same benefits, conveniences and flexibility, private student loans are alternative ways of compensating a student’s need for financial aid.

Flexibility may not be the same and interest rates are sure to be a whole lot more different from that of the actual federal student loans, but altogether, private student loans are the best way to go in cases of failure to secure the federal student loans.

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