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Student loan rates drop to all-time low

Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday June 18, 2003

(U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. ÷ To relieve financial burdens on college students, the U.S. Department of Education recently reduced interest rates on some student loans.

Interest loans taken out since 1998 dropped from 4.06 percent to 3.42 percent, according to a Department of Education press release. The reduction will bring the student loan interest rate to an all-time low. The rate for students still in college will be even lower at 2.82 percent.

"Record low loan interest rates may make the difference for many students considering whether to pursue postsecondary education," said Department of Education Secretary Rod Paige in a written statement.

Nicole Bowen, an education graduate assistant, said she took a loan out for herself and her husband to go back to school this fall. Bowen said she was happy to see the decrease in loan rates.

"We also have loans from undergraduate that we will be paying back," Bowen said. "It is good to know that the interest rates will be low for those loans so we will not be paying them back for the rest of our lives."

Students who borrowed $10,000 in loans under a 10-year standard repayment plan will save $362 in interest over the life of the loan because of the new reduction, according to the press release.


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