Fitch Rates Access Group Series 2008-1

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Fitch rates Access Group series 2008-1 as follows:

--$449,692,000 federal student loan asset backed floating rate
notes, class A, 'AAA';

--$13,908,000 federal student loan asset backed floating rate
notes, class B 'AA'.

For more information, see the presale report, 'Access Group, Inc.
Federal Student Loan Asset-Backed Floating-Rate Notes, Series 2008-1,
available to all investors on Fitch's corporate site,
www.fitchratings.com.

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