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Kansas Board of Regents
Kansas Board of Regents Curtis State Office Building Suite 520 1000 SW Jackson Street Topeka, KS 66612-1368 Phone: (785) 296-3421 Fax: (785) 296-0983 Website: http://www.kansasregents.org/
Kansas does not offer a state alternative loan program.
The state oversees participation in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), but it does not offer any additional benefits to students who take out these loans.
The state's guarantor for this program and its lender of last resort is United Student Aid Funds Inc. (USA Funds).
The state offers a number of service scholarship programs which become loans if the commitment is broken: - Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship Program
- available for current teachers and students pursuing degrees
- priority given to teachers, seniors and juniors
- awards are on a sliding scale depending on # of credit hours: from 3 credits- $1,020/per semester to 12+ credits- $2,550/per semester
- recipients agree to teach for = length of time as award
- if agreement is broken- loan must be repaid at the federalPLUS rate + 5% (now 12.9%)
- Kansas Nursing Service Scholarship Program
- for students enrolled in nursing programs
- LPN students- eligible for $2,500 per year; RN students- eligible for $3,500 per year
- recipients agree to nurse one year = each scholarship award
- if agreement is broken- loan must be repaid at the federalPLUS rate + 5% (now 12.9%)
- Osteopathic Medical Service Scholarship Program
- available for Kansas medical students who intend to pursue primary care medicine- may attend medical school anywhere in the U.S.
- awards are up to $25,000 per year for 4 years
- recipients agree to practice primary care medicine in an underserved area of Kansas- one year = each scholarship year
- if agreement is broken- loan must be repaid at the federalPLUS rate + 5% (now 12.9%)
- Kansas Optometry Service Scholarship Program
- award is in-state tuition price for 3 optometry schools in Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee
- recipients agree to practice in Kansas one year = each scholarship award
- if agreement is broken- loan must be repaid at the federalPLUS rate + 5% (now 12.9%)
- Workforce Development Loan Program
- for Kansas students who attend an area vocational technical school, technical college, community college, vocational school coordinated under the Kansas Board of Regents or associate degree program
- award is up to $2,000 per year
- recipients agree to live and work in Kansas one year = each 1/4 year of the award
- if agreement is broken- loan must be repaid at the federalPLUS rate + 5% (now 12.9%)
Although Kansas has no specific college loans for students, the state has many other programs with conditional and unconditional stipends.
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