Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation

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Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation was one of the largest student loan providers and guarantors in the United States. [1] Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, the corporation is non-profit. It was one of the four largest companies which service United States federal student loans: Great Lakes, Nelnet, Navient, and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. [2] In 2018, the loan servicing part of the organization was sold to Nelnet.

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The company sometimes gives education-related grants, [3] [4] with a focus on increasing access to higher education. [5]

Loan servicing

Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc.
Type Subsidiary
Industry Financial services
Headquarters,
Products Student loans
Revenue$230 million [6]  (2017)
Number of employees
1,800 [6]
Parent Nelnet
Website mygreatlakes.org

The former loan servicing arm of Great Lakes, the Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. guaranteed over $51 billion in loans under FFELP, and works with 6,000 schools, 1,100 lenders and 10,000,000 borrowers. [7]

In order to replace their loan servicing contract with the United States Department of Education, which expired on June 16, 2019, Great Lakes decided in 2016 to make its bid for a new contract in cooperation with the competing student loan servicer, Nelnet. [2] In October 2017, Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation reached an agreement to sell off 100% of the stock of its subsidiary, the Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. to Nelnet. [8] The company was to be sold for $150 million, initially keeping CEO Jeff Crosby in charge, but with a plan of consolidating the companies together. [9] On February 7, 2018, Nelnet announced that it had completed the acquisition of Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc.. [6] The loan servicing operation is now a fully owned subsidiary of Nelnet, the combined company now servicing 42% of the total federal student loan debt. [10]

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