Profile: Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc.

Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. is a wholly owned affiliate of Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation. Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates is one of the nation’s largest providers of student loan services. The affiliated group currently interacts with some 2,700 schools and 1,300 lenders in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The group holds guarantees on more than $26 billion in FFELP loans and services student loans with an aggregate outstanding balance of more than $23 billion for over 1.6 million borrowers. Great Lakes’ affiliated group 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.