Last year, students took out more than $85 billion in federal and private loans to pay for higher education.

The report says that students in professional schools, like law, use private loans because the cost of their education is just so high.

The bank also has no minimum size for a private loan.

Instead it gives us private loans made to citizens and companies.

Processing time should be no longer than for a private loan - about 30 days.

This seems particularly true in the case of private loan balances.

The terms on some of these private loans can quickly get a young person with little borrowing experience into financial trouble.

"A lot of the really big deals get done in cash or through private loans," he said.

Russia might also be eligible for private loans to meet its own nuclear energy needs.

It also could move even further into the lucrative private loan market, which does not depend on federal support.

These private loans can help sellers to avoid having to cut the prices of their properties.

Raising such money usually meant applying to the bank or building society, but private loans were an option, too.

However, income based repayment does not apply to private loans.

Private loans: cry all the way from the bank.

Private loans are not secured by the federal government.

Yet not only do private loans tend to have less favorable terms, but they can be the hardest to shop for.

She was not qualified for private loans to cover the difference and forced to drop out of school with a $52,162 debt.

Vanguard had applied for backing on nearly all of an $8 million private loan.

Analysts said that in China alone, about 20 percent of all public and private loans were nonperforming.

Private loans often are able to be consolidated, depending on your individual loan agreement.

The rest of the money is coming from smaller public and private loans and grants.

There are many private lenders that will offer you a private loan to pay for college.

For instance, it's become much harder to get many private loans without a co-signer.

"The private loan side is where we don't have or are unable to give a lot of general information because there just aren't as many rights."

Even death isn't a good enough excuse for discharging some private loan debts.