Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc.Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. is the principal service provider for the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation's affiliated group of companies, one of the nation's largest integrated providers of student loan services. The affiliated group currently interacts with some 2,600 schools and over 1,200 lenders in all fifty states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The group's affiliated guarantor, Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation, is the designated guarantor for Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The group holds guarantees on $16.2 billion in FFEL program loans and services student loans with an aggregate outstanding balance of more than $13.9 billion for approximately 1,275,787 borrowers.Great Lakes is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, and has operating centers in Columbus, Ohio and St. Paul, Minnesota and customer service and development sites in Eau Claire and Boscobel, Wisconsin and Oak Brook, Illinois. Great Lakes' mission is assurance of cost-effective enablement of educational access. For additional information, visit www.mygreatlakes.com. |