The nonprofit graduate loan specialist

About Access Group

Access Group "Firsts"

 
 

Over the years, Access Group has established a history of industry innovations. Our scrapbook shows that Access Group (and its loan programs):

  • Offered the first private Bar Examination Loan
  • Developed Need Access®, the first fully electronic financial need analysis software product designed specifically for graduate and professional students
  • Created Loan Line, the first over-the-phone application in student lending
  • Pioneered borrower-based pricing of private student loans (varying loan costs according to the individual borrower's level of credit risk)
  • Applied the universal use of credit scores to student loan credit reviews
  • Offered the first fully interactive graduate student loan application on the Web
  • Led the industry in switching to LIBOR as the index used to set interest rates on private student loans
  • Implemented Instant Credit Review technology for student loan applicants

We will provide education financing to the broadest range of eligible students, positively influence education financing practices, and provide services valued by students and schools.

To be an industry leader by ensuring and continually improving the availability of affordable education financing for graduate and professional students and schools.

 
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