Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates is dedicated to changing lives for the better through higher education. We work with schools, lenders, and community organizations to help millions of people pay for college and build brighter futures.

Great Lakes provides financial, educational, and operational support at every stage of the educational journey. This support increases access to higher education, simplifies the delivery of financial aid, prepares students for success, and helps borrowers successfully repay their student loans. Details are available in our corporate overview, Great Lakes: Making Higher Education an Attainable Dream.

One of the nation's leading guarantors and servicers of student loans, Great Lakes serves more than 2,700 schools and 1,400 lenders across the nation. We service student loans for more than two million borrowers, hold guarantees on more than $35 billion in loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, and serve as the designated guarantor for Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Great Lakes is a non-profit corporation with two operating subsidiaries: Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation and Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. Through our broad array of products and services, Great Lakes offers schools and lenders the flexibility to build the best possible financial aid process for each campus and the students and families they serve.

Great Lakes employs more than 900 professionals nationwide. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Great Lakes has operating centers in Columbus, Ohio, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Boscobel, Wisconsin; a software development office in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and sales and marketing professionals in 12 states.

Our guiding principle has been constant since our founding more than forty years ago: doing what's right. This commitment drives us to continue finding better ways to help people further their education and succeed in life, to help our school and lender partners deliver aid, and to strengthen the financial aid programs that will enable the nation to grow stronger in the years to come.

Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school.

What we do
Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people.

Learn more about our mission and our new President Jamie P. Merisotis.

The Michigan Student Financial Aid Association (MSFAA), founded in 1967, is a state organization that brings together postsecondary schools and other public and private organizations involved with providing financial aid for students.

MSFAA is a diverse group of financial aid professionals that represent Michigan colleges and universities, banking institutions, guaranty agencies, and the State of Michigan.  The mission of the Association is to enhance student financial aid awareness, to promote student access to postsecondary education and to provide professional development opportunities for its members.

A vital part of our mission is to increase awareness for students and parents concerning financing a postsecondary education.

MSFAA is an organization of over 500 members who are dedicated to serving the needs of students, financial aid administrators, postsecondary schools, and organizations involved in and concerned with sound delivery of student financial aid.

MSFAA is a not-for-profit professional organization committed to the effective administration of student financial aid.  The Executive Board, which consists of seven members and five sector representatives, govern the organization within the guidelines set forth in the bylaws. Working together, committees carry out the tasks mandated by the Executive Board during the course of the year.