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Smart Borrowing

Tip #04

There are lots of college prep courses and not enough college financing prep courses.


About Us

The First Marblehead Corporation (FMD) is an industry leader in providing services for private, non-governmental, education lending in the United States.

Our mission: To become the best provider of financial solutions that help students achieve their dreams.

At First Marblehead, we help students and their families close the widening gap between the costs of college and the financial resources available to them. We do this by helping our clients - banks, marketers and corporations - develop solutions that are affordable and meet the needs of their customers.

The demand for education finance solutions has never been greater as more Americans apply and go to college than ever before. The funding gap between the cost of education and traditional sources of funding such as Federal student loans, scholarships and grants continues to widen and today is estimated to be $143 billion.

SmartBorrowing.org Partnerships

At SmartBorrowing.org, we seek to partner with organizations that give students and families access to new tools and services in addition to the ones found within our site.

TuitionCoach is a premier provider of information to help families afford college. Some of the features of TuitionCoach are available to the users of smartborrowing.org at no additional cost. Users will also have the option to leave our site and go to TuitionCoach.com where they can choose to sign-up for full subscriber services. First Marblehead will receive a percentage of the fee for each new TuitionCoach subscriber.