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- Higher One’s company name reflects its exclusive focus on Higher Education.
- 3 college students, Sean, Mark and Miles, founded Higher One.
- We work with over 75 colleges and universities in 23 states.
- Three Higher One employees are sick at World of Warcraft—in fact, 2 are raiding SSC right now.
- Our Marketing Data Analyst holds a black belt in Shaolin Chuan Fa and Ju Jutsu.
- Our Accountant grew up in the jungle of the Phillipines.
- Higher One has disbursed over $2.5 BILLION in refunds to students.
- This year, Higher One employees created the First Annual March Madness Foosball Tournament.
- Higher One celebrates National Donut Day every June 1st.
- In college, Sean majored in Electrical Engineering, Miles in Computer Science and Mark in Economics.
- Four employees are alumni of colleges we work with. Two went to the University of Wisconsin-Stout, 1 calls Southern New Hampshire University her alma mater and Charley, our softball pitcher, graduated from the University of Houston.
- 50% of Higher One’s customers are under 23.
- At least one of Higher One employees wears jeans and flip flop’s to work everyday.
- Higher One’s softball team has a winning record
- Our Biz Dev guy started out as a Higher One intern after working on launching the new refund process on Student Government at University of Wisconsin- Stout, Higher One’s 2nd school. We liked him so much we canceled his flight home and hired him on full time.
- We have a lot of team spirit at Higher One—At least one Higher One employee is wearing Higher One gear (Tshirt, polo, fleece) at work everyday.
- At least 4 Higher One employees have run one or more marathons.
- The first client to visit Higher One headquarters was University of Wisconsin-Stout.
- We're growing fast thanks to student support. In 2006, Deloitte and Touche awarded the Rising Star award to Higher One.
- It took 9 months to launch our first client, University of Houston, now it takes just 8 weeks.
- We have carded over 1 million people.
- There are no offices or even cubicles at Higher One, we have an open culture and work environment.
- Our OneSupport Analyst loves Dr. Pepper so much, he plans to visit the Dr. Pepper museum in Waco, TX.
- Our Unix System Administrator has never seen Star Wars.
- 48% of statistics are made up on the spot.
- One of Higher One's clients, Bunker Hill Community College, was featured in the movie Good Will Hunting, as the location where Robin Williams' character teaches.
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