Use the Weighted
Average Interest Rate Calculator to determine your interest rate when consolidating federal student loans with a Direct Consolidation Loan.
Not exact matches
An undergrad who borrows $ 37,000 — and that's less than the national
average for 2016 graduates — and has an
interest rate of 4.45 percent will pay $ 8,908 in
interest over 10 years, according to NerdWallet's student loan
calculator.
For credit cards,
interest is usually accrued daily or based on the
average daily balance, but most credit card
calculators estimate the monthly
interest by assuming that (1) the balance is constant and (2) the
interest rate is the annual
rate divided by 12.
Using the
interest rate of a Federal Stafford Loan (4.66 %), the 2012
average student loan debt, and an estimated payment of $ 300 / month, I used this student loan
calculator from BankRate to estimate how long it would take to repay the
average student debt.
Based on these figures, our debt
calculator says that at a payment of $ 750 per month, with an
average interest rate of 25 %, you would be debt free in approximately 87 months, which equals out to just over 7 years.
To see how a credit score impacts
average interest rates, check out the Loan Savings
Calculator from myFICO.com.