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Downloading Your NSLDS Student Loan Datafile
Downloading Your NSLDS Student Loan Datafile

Instructions for acquiring and downloading your Federal Student Loan data from the Department of Education's studentaid.gov website.

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Written by Nate Jeffries
Updated over 10 months ago

Step 1:

Navigate your web browser to https://studentaid.gov.

Step 2:

On the Federal Student Aid homepage, click the Log In button.

Step 3:

Enter your FSA ID and password and click Log In.

Step 4:

Read the Warning and click Accept.

Step 5:

On the Student Aid Dashboard, click View Details.

Step 6:

The Borrower Loan Details page is displayed. Click Download My Aid Data to download the NSLDS.txt file.

Step 7:

Read the displayed information and click Continue.

Step 8:

Clicking the Continue button will download your NSLDS.txt file to your computer.

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