Interest Rates for Direct Loans First Disbursed Between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025 (2024)

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Interest Rates for Direct Loans First Disbursed Between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025? ›

Undergraduate loans now carry a rate of 6.53% for the 2024-2025 school year, up from 5.50% last school year.

Undergraduate loans now carry a rate of 6.53% for the 2024-2025 school year, up from 5.50% last school year.

Direct subsidized and unsubsidized loans for undergraduate students: 6.53% interest rate for 2024-25, up from 5.50%. Direct unsubsidized loans for graduate students: 8.08% interest rate for 2024-25, up from 7.05%

Parent PLUS Loan interest rates

The interest rate for Parent PLUS Loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2024, and before July 1, 2025, is currently 9.08%. This rate is fixed for the life of the loan. There's also a 4.228% fee for loans disbursed on or after October 1, 2020.

The federal student loan interest rate for undergraduates is 6.53% for new loans taken out for the 2024-25 school year, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. Federal rates for graduate student loans and PLUS loans are higher — 8.08% and 9.08%, respectively.

Fannie Mae's August 2024 forecast (its latest at the time of writing) predicts that 2025 rates will start at 6.2% and trickle downwards by 0.1% each quarter, landing somewhere near 5.9%.

Aggregate Loan Limits

Graduate and professional students: $138,500 (or $224,000 for certain medical training) including undergraduate borrowing (including up to $65,500 subsidized).

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Direct Loans are “daily interest” loans. On daily interest loans, interest accrues (adds up) every day. If your loans are subsidized, you are not responsible for paying the interest that accrues while you're in school.

From 1 July 2023, the benchmark interest rate for Division 7A loans increased from 4.77 per cent p.a. to 8.27 per cent p.a.

What is the interest rate on the Direct Parent PLUS loan? ›

Summary: The Parent PLUS Loan is a federal Direct student loan available to the parents of dependent undergraduate students. The Direct Parent PLUS Loan offers a fixed 9.08% interest rate for the 2024 - 2025 school year and flexible loan limits.

Fixed income markets as assessed by the CME's FedWatch Tool are currently looking a federal funds rate reduction of 0.75% to 1.5% by December 2024. Short-term rates are expected to end the year at a little more than 4%.

If you got your loan after July 1, 2024, and before July 1, 2025: For undergraduate students, the interest rate for Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans is 6.53%. For graduate or professional students, the interest rate for Direct Unsubsidized loans is 8.08%.

Parent PLUS Loan rates are fixed at 4.60 percentage points above the 10-year Treasury yield. The rate or the 10-year Treasury note on May 8, 2024 came in at 4.483%, so the new Direct Loan interest rate for the 2024-25 academic year is 6.53%, and the Direct Parent PLUS loan rate is 9.08%.

The Mortgage Bankers Association predicts in its August Mortgage Finance Forecast that mortgage rates will fall from 6.7% in the third quarter of 2024 to 6.5% by the fourth quarter. The industry group expects rates will fall to 5.9% at the end of 2025 and will continue to average 5.9% in 2026.

Following the August base rate cut, mortgage rates on fixed rate mortgages have been falling as lenders slashed rates. Many experts are predicting one further base rate cut in 2024 and for interest rates to fall to around 4% by the end of next year.