BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE SIGNS ON TO USE HIGHER ONE'S ONEDISBURSE® REFUND MANAGEMENT SERVICE TO IMPROVE STUDENT SERVICES AND REDUCE COSTS

Higher One’s Refund Management disbursement service will Enable Students to Receive Their Money Faster with More Refund Choices.

Boston, MA - December, 2006 - Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), located in Boston, MA today announced that they have partnered with Higher One, the leading provider of customized financial services dedicated exclusively to the higher education market, to improve how financial aid refunds are disbursed to their students. Bunker Hill Community College will be using Higher One's OneDisburse^® Refund Management. BHCC represents one of more than 60 schools to sign on with Higher One, and the first in Massachusetts.

Higher One continues to experience increasing interest from colleges and universities nationwide as institutions look to improve their student services and decrease administrative costs. As more institutions learn that a solution such as Higher One's OneDisburse exists they are quickly embracing this solution to better serve their students. Some institutions have also expressed that their interest stemmed from the fact that utilizing Refund Management with an outside vendor helps the institution avoid IT and data security risks.

Prior to Higher One, BHCC handled all disbursements in-house and checks were delivered manually. Their goal with signing on with Higher One was to create a solution that would combine a more efficient financial aid disbursement process with students' campus ID cards. Through Higher One, each student will have the option of an online account, solving one of the schools biggest financial aid disbursement issues and eliminating the long lines that occurred when students came in to pick up their refund check.

"We are excited about being the first school in Massachusetts to choose Higher One," said Weusi Tafawa, Comptroller at Bunker Hill Community College. "Not only does Higher One provide a solution to the issues we faced with our previous refund process, but it also delivers students their money faster and with more options."

BHCC has implemented Higher One's Higher One's Refund Management disbursement service, which will help the university reduce administrative costs, streamline business processes, increase student choice and improve the student experience. Students will have the opportunity to use the OneAccount, a free FDIC insured checking account linked to their OneCard. If students choose to utilize this option, their BHCC Debit MasterCard can be used worldwide everywhere MasterCard is accepted. Higher One's OneDisburse Refund Management is more than just payments; it offers students more choice and convenience while the school sees a direct cost and time savings.

Higher One's OneDisburse Refund Management includes the handling of all disbursements, customer service, reconciliation and other time consuming functions - eliminating many costs associated with refund delivery for BHCC and increasing customer service for students. Higher One's service is the only comprehensive Refund Management available today and features no setup costs, minimum involvement with schools' IT systems, and a unique revenue-sharing benefit for BHCC. With OneDisburse, students can choose any of three options to receive financial aid and other refunds: direct deposit to the free OneAccount checking account, ACH to another bank checking account, or a paper check.

"We are happy to be providing Bunker Hill Community College with a program that offers significant cost savings for the institution as well as more choices for students," said Dean Hatton, President and CEO, Higher One. "I am certain that they will be pleased with our Refund Management along with the rest of our Higher Education Clients."

Leading the trend within higher education, New Haven, CT-based Higher One has become the standard of service for American higher education institutions looking for ways to improve the payment process and student experience. Higher One handles the entire process and manages any associated exceptions or customer service needs.

More than 60 colleges and universities across the country have signed with Higher One to use the company's Refund Management. Since September 2002, Higher One has helped its clients disburse $1.5 billion through over half a million individual payments.

About Higher One

Founded in 2000, Higher One provides higher education institutions and their students with efficient, convenient and easy-to-use solutions to handle financial disbursements. These include: student refunds, on-campus and community purchases, payroll and employee expenses, as well as the collection of payments from students, parents, and sponsors.

Higher One offers a suite of online banking services including the OneAccount, an FDIC-insured checking account, and OneCard, a Debit MasterCard^®. To date, Higher One has disbursed over $4 billion dollars in refunds for its clients to more than 1,000,000 students, faculty, and staff at distinguished public and private higher education institutions throughout the country.

Higher One recently ranked # 85 on the 2007 Inc. List of the 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the United States. Higher One is based in New Haven, CT.

BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE SIGNS ON TO USE HIGHER ONE'S ONEDISBURSE® Refund Management TO IMPROVE STUDENT SERVICES AND REDUCE COSTS

BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE SIGNS ON TO USE HIGHER ONE'S ONEDISBURSE^® Refund Management TO IMPROVE STUDENT SERVICES AND REDUCE COSTS