Just finished school and now its time to start paying on those

Student loans fall into two categories.
1. A private student loan which was based on your credit or that of your parents. Loans of this nature may be consolidated through standard loan consolidation.
2. Federally funded student loans were backed by the federal government. You may have received them from a private institution but if you default on them the government guaranteed the funding organization that it would make the loan good. These loans have very strict rules regarding consolidation.

If you want to consolidate a student loan that was federally funded below are some tips for doing so.

A federally funded student loanwill not be discharged in a bankruptcy exce