Not exact matches
Variable
rates will fluctuate with the life of the
loan and variable
rates are currently at historic lows (2 percent range)-- meaning right now they are
below federal rates (for more on this topic, see «What every borrower should know about variable -
rate student loans «-RRB-.
The chart
below, generated by the Department of Education's repayment estimator, shows how much $ 26,946 in direct subsidized
federal student loans with a 4.3 percent interest
rate would cost a borrower to repay under all seven different repayment plans available to
federal student loan borrowers.
Many private
student loan lenders are now offering
student loan refinancing interest
rates below federal government
rates.
Even so, these
rates are still
below even
federal U.S.
student loan rates.
Keep in mind that the
loans that Congress is discussing right now have some of the lower
rates of the
student loans out there:
Federal loans for parents and grad
students have higher interest
rates than the
rates below.
The chart that you see
below shows the interest
rates for various
federal student loans.
Available data indicate that borrowers 65 and older hold defaulted
federal student loans at a much higher
rate, which can leave some retirees with income
below the poverty threshold.
The chart
below, generated by the Department of Education's repayment estimator, depicts the total cost of repaying $ 49,000 in
student loan debt at 6 percent interest (the average
rate on
federal student loans for a borrower getting their undergraduate degree in 2010 - 14 and moving on to get a graduate degree in 2014 - 2016) under various repayment plans.
Most UofT
student fund their
loans with some combination of
student line of credits, financed at either prime or prime +0.5 % (currently 2.7 - 3.3 %, depending on how good a negotiator you are, and well
below 4 % for most of the past 10 years) or government
student loans, whose
rate is either prime +1 % (for the provincial portion) or prime +2.5 % (for the
federal portion), and for which they receive a tax credit.