The following reports provide summary statistical information on the major student loan programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Many of these reports are available for download in .zip format. In order to uncompress zip files, you must have WinZip or similar file compression software. If you do not have WinZip, a free trial version is available at http://www.winzip.com. In most cases, the .ZIP archive files provide data in MS Excel format. For the Federal Direct Student Loan Program files below, disabling macros in Excel will facilitate access to the data.