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It’s Never Been a Better Time to Refinance Your Student Loans — Here’s Why

Student loan rates have fallen dramatically over the past few months. If you refinance your student loans, you could get a lower rate and significantly reduce how much you pay over the life of your loan.

Ashley Harrison Ashley Harrison Updated October 5, 2020

Our goal is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we receive compensation from our partner lenders, whom we will always identify, all opinions are our own. Credible Operations, Inc. NMLS # 1681276, is referred to here as "Credible."

Don’t wait to refinance

Interest and payments on federal student loans have been suspended through Dec. 31, 2020. Since it’s impossible to get a better rate than 0%, there’s little incentive to refinance federal student loans at the moment.

But it’s still never been a better time to consider refinancing your private student loans. Why? Because private student loan interest rates have fallen dramatically — and you can take advantage of them right now.

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Refinancing consolidates your federal and private student loans into one new loan with a private student loan lender. You can also refinance only part of your debt if you’d prefer.

By refinancing your student loans, you might qualify for a much lower interest rate than what you currently have. This could reduce how much you pay over the life of the loan. Or you could extend your repayment term to dramatically lower your monthly payment and loosen up your monthly budget.

According to an analysis of a representative sample of 60,000 rate requests submitted to the Credible marketplace, during August:

  • Rates on 10-year fixed-rate loans averaged a record low of 4.31%, down 29% from a May 2018 peak of 6.09%
  • Rates on 5-year variable-rate loans averaged 3.17%, up from a previous record low of 2.82% seen in June, but down 37% from a 2018 high of 5.05%.

Keep in mind that if you refinance your federal loans, you’ll no longer have access to federal programs, such as income-driven repayment, deferment, and student loan forgiveness.

Where do you start?

Student loans can be overwhelming, but refinancing them doesn’t have to be. That’s why Credible’s here to help. We let you compare rates for FREE and as a bonus:

  • It can take just 2 minutes
  • Checking prequalified rates won’t impact your credit score1
  • You can compare multiple lenders at once to find your perfect fit

The student loan refinancing companies in the table below are Credible’s approved partner lenders. Credible will receive compensation if you use Credible’s marketplace to obtain a loan from these lenders. Our compensation does not affect placement on the table below.

You can compare prequalified rates from all of them by filling out a single form:

LenderFixed rates from (APR)Variable rates from (APR)
brazos student loan refinancing 4.4%+ 4.79%+
citizens student loans 5.39%+1 6.26%+1
college ave student loans 5.99%+2 5.99%+2
edvestinu student loan consolidation 7.41%+5 7.39%+5
elfi student loans 5.08%+3 4.78%+3
mefa refinancing 5.61%+4 6.61%+4
lendkey 4.49%+ 4.76%+
invested refinancing 5.5%+ N/A
penfed purefy student loan consolidation 5.49%+ N/A
rhode island student loan authority refinancing 5.29%+ N/A
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1 To check the rates and terms you qualify for, Credible or our partner lender(s) conduct a soft credit pull that will not affect your credit score. However, when you apply for credit, your full credit report from one or more consumer reporting agencies will be requested, which is considered a hard credit pull and will affect your credit.

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