1.  Eligibility for loans for undergraduate education.  An Educators for Maine loan recipient must be an undergraduate at an institution of higher education.  

2.  Eligibility for graduate study or continuing education loans. 

3.  Eligibility for postbaccalaureate certification.  A loan to a student pursuing postbaccalaureate certification may be given only to a resident of the State who has shown academic achievement, who has a baccalaureate degree, who is pursuing a course of study that will lead to certification as a teacher, to licensure as a speech pathologist or to attainment of child care provider qualifications and who has met other eligibility criteria established by rule of the authority.