ESF Education Partners

This program allows you to provide your customers with a much-needed service without all the hassle and bureaucracy of the federal student loan program.

The objective of the Education Partner Program is to support lender partners with a strategic program designed to increase traffic and generate new business.

As an ESF Education Partner, you will be able to offer your customers student loans without the expense, bureaucracy and legal entanglements of the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP).

As an Education Education Partner:

• Student loans are marketed in the name of your institution and ESF.
• ESF pays an annual fee for marketing ESF loans and a fee for participating in approved events.
• ESF originates, finances and services the loans while you provide a service to your customers without the hassle of compliance regulations and audits.

Specifically, the features of the Education Program allow you to:

• Expand your service offerings by creating a new line of business with no cost, no risk and minimum staff time
• Capture new young customers for a lifetime of banking products·
• Increase walk-in traffic and opportunity to sell other programs
• Stop the loss of business from students forced to get student loans from your competitors
• Provide community service by partnering with ESF for college fairs, career days and college prep and financial aid workshops
• Concentrate your funds towards more profitable services

As an ESF Education Partner, you will:

• Receive an annual marketing fee and a fee for participating in approved events
• Be provided with customized student loan marketing materials at no cost
• Utilize minimum staff time for the easy and efficient referral process
• Receive marketing consultation
• Receive free customized marketing materials
• Receive free student loan Web pages

Benefits to your customers include:

• Online applications with esignature available
• Electronic processing of loan applications for quick loan approval and delivery of funds
• Free entrance and exit counseling
• Free academic, career and financial aid counseling
• Free on-line loan tracking
• Toll-free number to call regarding student loans

ESF Education Education Partners:

• BankPlus
• Bank of Anguilla
• Bank of Forest
• Bank of Franklin
• BNA Bank
• Britton & Koontz Bank
• Century Bank
• Citizens Bank, Columbia
• Community Bank
• Copiah Bank
• Cornerstone Bank
• Delta Southern Bank
• DeSoto County Bank
• Farmers & Merchants Bank
• First American National Bank
• First Bank and Trust
• First National Bank of Clarksdale
• First National Bank of Oxford
• First National Bank of Picayune
• First National Bak of Pontotoc
• First State Bank
• Magnolia State Bank
• Mechanics Bank
• Merchants & Marine Bank
• Merchants & Planters Bank
• Oxford University Bank
• Planters Bank & Trust
• PriorityOne Bank
• Richton Bank & Trust Company
• SOUTHBank
• State Bank & Trust Bank
• The Peoples Bank of Ripley
• Twin Sates Federal Credit Union
• United Mississippi Bank

For more information or to sign up as an Education Partner, contact Nancy D'Angelo, Manager, Lender Relations, at 1.866.626.7591 or ndangelo@esfweb.com.

If you are a current Education Partner, click here to order supplies.