For Schools
Discover® Financial Services has been known for years for award-winning customer service,
industry-leading rewards, and commitment to helping our customers make financial progress.
These strengths extend across everything we do—including Discover® Student Loans.
Help us give students and their families a new and rewarding choice
If your school is not already set up for automated processing on our system, please call us
at 1-877-728-3030 Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm Eastern Time.
We will walk you through the full variety of options available to support your school’s processing preferences.
Our approach
Improve access to affordable loans
- Federal Stafford loans with zero fees
- Federal PLUS and Grad PLUS loans at 8.25% interest rate
- Private education loans with zero fees and interest rates as low as Prime minus 0.50%
Offer industry-leading rewards
- 0.25% repayment interest rate credit when payments are set up for automatic debit from a bank account
- 2% cash reward on the outstanding principal balance of private loans at graduation
Encourage responsible borrowing
- School certification to control loan amounts
- School disbursement to control how funds are used
- Adult cosigners on all private education loans