Interest Rates
Interest rates for federal direct loans disbursed between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2025:
- undergraduate subsidized direct loans fixed at 6.52 percent
- undergraduate unsubsidized direct loans fixed at 6.52 percent
- graduate students are not eligible for subsidized loans per federal regulations
- graduate unsubsidized direct loans fixed at 8.07 percent
- parent PLUS direct loans 9.07 percent.
The change from a variable- to a fixed-interest rate does not affect a borrower's variable-interest rate on loans made before July 1, 2006.
A 1.057 percent origination fee for all Stafford loans and a 4.228 percent origination fee for all PLUS loans is paid to the U.S. Department of Education for loans first disbursed after Oct. 1, 2020.
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