HESC's Empire Manager suite of products has the tools that will help you manage both loans and grants, boosting your productivity and making many tasks faster and easier for both you and your students.

Students can prepare for college, apply for financial aid, and manage their loans and grants, while learning valuable financial literacy skills.

This suite also assists financial aid administrators manage their hectic work environment and organize award packaging, entrance counseling and records and reports.

FAFSA

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the key that unlocks the door to all kinds of financial aid programs.

Every year students and their parents apply for nearly all types of federal, state or college-sponsored financial aid, including grants, scholarships, loans and work-study programs.

The best way for students to complete their FAFSA and TAP applications is online at www.hesc.org, where students can link to the free federal site, learn about the application process and complete the form with ease. They can also explore our Web site to take advantage of opportunities to apply for other grants, manage TAP and loans, and have many of their financial aid questions answered.

HESC PIN

Using the HESC Personal Identification Number (PIN), your students can e-sign their loans and safely and securely go online to check and update their records for student loans or grants. This can dramatically reduce the turnaround time and expense of manual processing for requests for information, student change forms, and other edits.

Empire Planner

HESC’s Empire Planner is an online student relationship tool that helps you deliver better service while reducing your workload. This revolutionary resource gives you paperless contact with students who have applied for aid, offering awards to eligible students and options to those who must find alternative financing.

With this multi-year financial planning tool, you can present award letters electronically to your students. And, it gives you the flexibility to easily summarize and customize the financial aid offerings and payment options for parents and students.

HESC Student Loan Marketplace (coming soon)

Borrowing for college is a serious decision and a long term commitment. HESC Student Loan Marketplace will provide your students with all the facts and information they'll need to decide what college financing options are best for them.

Students will see real loan terms from participating lenders, sort and compare these products, and ultimately select the best financing option available to them with just one credit application and one credit check. Schools also will have the ability to rate participating lenders in order to provide guidance to their students and families.

In addition, the site will provide helpful advice on all kinds of financial topics, including budgeting, credit card awareness and debt management.

Furthermore, Empire Planner can be integrated with the HESC Student Loan Marketplace, allowing borrowers to automatically see their actual costs and financial awards, while considering their loan options. Without integrating Empire Planner, borrowers self-report their costs and financial awards in order to determine how much they may need to borrow.

Entrance/Exit Counseling

Our comprehensive entrance/exit interview package helps you deliver important messages to your students while ensuring your compliance with federal regulations.

Our entrance counseling includes an informative brochure, Student Guide to Smart Borrowing and Your Financial Future, which provides students with information on the terms and conditions, and the rights and responsibilities of their loan obligations. We also offer a file folder in which your students can store all loan records and correspondence and a FFEL borrower signature/information form.

For exit counseling, our brochure, Paying Your Loan is Serious Business, reinforces the student’s loan obligation and provides information about budgeting their money and repaying their loans after graduation. The exit counseling package also includes our customizable letter template in which schools can insert their average indebtedness information as required and the FFEL borrower signature/information form, which asks for updated student contact information.

HESC is also an active participant in Mapping Your Future. This innovative online counseling service helps you fulfill entrance and exit counseling requirements from the convenience of a computer and enables students to understand their rights and responsibilities as a student borrower. Either counseling session can be completed online.

Customized Reports

You have the freedom and flexibility to customize HESC reports online to meet the precise needs of your financial aid administration.

By simply choosing from a menu of options, you can view the information you need, when you need it, in the format that works best for you.

Dashboard

Displaying information on all loans guaranteed by loan type is a breeze when you use HESC’s Dashboard report.

Available on our Web site, your detailed page displays the number of loans, loan guarantee amount, number of disbursals, anticipated dollars disbursed, actual dollars disbursed, total amount cancelled, number of HESC-held e-MPNs and number of HESC-held paper MPNs.