Other Resources for Repayment Assistance

Health Care Providers - The National Health Service Corps offers loan repayment assistance to support qualified health care providers who choose to bring their skills where they are most needed.

This program is open to licensed primary care medical, dental, and mental and behavioral health providers who are employed or have accepted an offer of employment at an NHSC-approved site.

Nursing Student Loan - The Nurse Corp LRP, exists to assist in the recruitment and retention of:

Professional registered nurses, including advanced practice RNs such as nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists
Dedicated to working in health care facilities with critical shortage of nurses. These facilities are referred to as a Critical Shortage Facility.
By decreasing the financial barriers associated with pursuing a nursing profession.
The program offers these RNs substantial financial assistance to repay a portion of their qualifying educational loans in exchange for full-time service a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses.

Nursing Faculty Loan - The purpose of the Nurse Faculty Loan Program is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty to facilitate education of the nurses needed to address the nursing workforce shortage.

Participating schools of nursing make loans from the NFLP fund to assist registered nurses in completing their graduate education to become qualified nurse faculty.
The program offers partial loan forgiveness for borrowers that graduate and serve as full-time nursing faculty for the prescribed period of time.
The loan recipients may cancel 85 percent of the loan over four years in return for working full time as a nurse faculty member at an accredited eligible school of nursing.
Eligible entities are accredited collegiate schools of nursing and other qualified academic departments offering eligible advanced master's and/or doctoral degree nursing education programs that will prepare students to teach.

The Student Loan Service Center (SLSC) provides loan servicing for Perkins, Nursing and other institutional loans issued and owned by the eleven state colleges and universities in the North Dakota University System.