In 2024, the average student loan debt of graduates of Northwestern University, ranked as the 6th best college in the United States, amounted to 36,425 U.S. dollars. For students at Princeton University, classified as the best U.S. college in that year, they left college with student loan debt totaling 17,494 U.S. dollars on average.

Statistics on student debt, including the average debt at graduation, the percentage of graduates who owed large debt at graduation and the percentage of graduates with debt who had paid it off at the time of the interview, are presented by the province of study and the level of study. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

For those graduating college in the United States in 2020, five-figure debt was the norm across all states. Students in New Hampshire had the highest debt levels in the country, at 39,928 U.S. dollars on average. The lowest average amount of debt that students had was in the state of Utah at 18,344 U.S. dollars.

In 2025, students graduating from English universities will have incurred an average of 53,000 British pounds of student loan debt, compared with 39,000 pounds in Wales, 28,000 pounds in Northern Ireland, and around 18,000 pounds in Scotland.

The average amount of debt for university graduates from the class of 2023 in the United States was 29,374 U.S. dollars, an increase from the 21,211 U.S. dollars of debt that graduates from the class of 2008 had on average.

Data on the average amount of OSAP debt owed by students. The data is specific to those who attended programs with typical durations. Data is for: * 4-year undergraduate university students * 2-year college diploma students * 1-year private career college students The data fields are: * academic year of completion * postsecondary sector (university, publicly-assisted college, or private career college) * program duration (1 year, 2 years or 4 years) * average repayable debt after loan forgiveness applied through the Ontario Student Opportunity Grant Debt is in nominal dollars with no adjustment for inflation. *[OSAP]: Ontario Student Assistance Program

In the academic year 2022/23, the average student loan debt for a four-year bachelor's degree from a public college in the United States was 29,300 U.S. dollars. In comparison, student loan debt from a private for-profit college averaged almost 34,000 U.S. dollars.

In the academic year of 2022/2023, the average Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loan amount borrowed by undergraduate students in the United States amounted to 6,520 2022 U.S. dollars. In that same year, the average borrower received about 19,890 U.S. dollars in PLUS loans.

According to a 2023 survey, 26 percent of Gen Z respondents said that they expect that it will take them between 7 to 10 years to repay their student loans in the United States. A further 21 percent said that they expect it will take them between 4 to 6 years.

In 2020, Black graduates took on the most student loan debt in the United States, borrowing an average of 58,400 U.S. dollars after four years of completing a bachelor's degree. In comparison, Hispanic graduates borrowed an average of 41,700 U.S. dollars after four years of completing a bachelor's degree.

This data set represents average student loan debt by college and program in Utah as reported by the US Dept of Education in 2020. This data was created by the US Dept of Education by linking taxpayer data with student loan data.

Income-driven repayment plans lower required payments for student loan borrowers when their income decreases. This helps to reduce student loan defaults. Despite universal availability, only a minority of student loan borrowers in the U.S. are in an income-driven repayment plan. In this study, I test whether a student’s choice of repayment plan is related to their expectations of earning a low income. Using an information experiment in a web survey, I create two groups of college seniors with an exogenous difference in low-income expectations. I find that respondents who see the major specific income information believe they, on average, have a higher probability of earning a low income. However, those respondents are not any more likely to choose the income-driven repayment plan. I conclude that students’ repayment plan preferences are not strongly related to their expectations of earning a low income. This may be due to students caring about things other than minimizing monthly payments when choosing a repayment plan.

How high is the average student debt in the Netherlands? In 2016, a university (in Dutch: WO) graduate had a debt of around 10,700 euros. Newer numbers were not available, as the national system for student loans changed in 2015. In 2015-2016, the so-called basisbeurs (a conditional loan a student would receive in the Netherlands, which would turn into a gift when he/she graduated within ten years) was abolished. This currently means that if students need more money, they must loan it from the government. In 2017, the Dutch government granted 2.4 billion euros worth of loans to students.

University graduates had a higher chance of a student debt

The total student debt in the Netherlands was worth 11.2 billion euros in 2017. Roughly six out of ten research university graduates had a student debt. This was significantly higher than university of applied sciences graduates (in Dutch: HBO), of which 33 percent had a student debt.

Student debts influence house purchases in the Netherlands

In 2017, approximately 16 percent of all first-time homebuyers in the Netherlands consisted of the age group between 25 and 29 years old. This was a decrease from the approximately 25 percent in 2013. As (student) debts and personal income count towards mortgage requests and partly determine whether or not mortgage providers are willing to lend money for the purchase of a house, an increasing student debt made it more difficult for starters in the Netherlands to enter the real estate market. Mortgages are the most common way to finance real estate for households in the Netherlands.

This dataset consists of a selection of variables extracted from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard 2015/2016. For the original, raw data visit the College Scorecard webpage. This dataset includes variables about institution types, proportion of degree types awarded, student enrollments and demographics, and a number of price and revenue variables. For 2005-2006 data, see here.Note: Data is not uniformly available for all schools on all variables. Variables for which there is no data (NULL), or where data is suppressed for reasons of privacy, are indicated by 999999999.

ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE

ID2 1

UNITIDUnit ID for institution 100654

OPEID 8-digit OPE ID for institution 100200

OPEID6 6-digit OPE ID for institution 1002

State FIPS

1

State

AL

Zip

35762

City

Normal

Institution Name

Alabama A & M University

Institution Type 1 Public 2 Private nonprofit 3 Private for-profit 1

Institution Level 1 4-year 2 2-year 3 Less-than-2-year 1

In Operation 1 true 0 false 1

Main Campus 1 true 0 false 1

Branches Count of the number of branches 1

Popular Degree 1 Predominantly certificate-degree granting 2 Predominantly associate's-degree granting 3 Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting 4 Entirely graduate-degree granting 3

Highest Degree 0 Non-degree-granting 1 Certificate degree 2 Associate degree 3 Bachelor's degree 4 Graduate degree 4

PCIP01 Percentage of degrees awarded in Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, And Related Sciences. 0.0446

PCIP03 Percentage of degrees awarded in Natural Resources And Conservation. 0.0023

PCIP04 Percentage of degrees awarded in Architecture And Related Services. 0.0094

PCIP05 Percentage of degrees awarded in Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies. 0

PCIP09 Percentage of degrees awarded in Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs. 0

PCIP10 Percentage of degrees awarded in Communications Technologies/Technicians And Support Services. 0.0164

PCIP11 Percentage of degrees awarded in Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services. 0.0634

PCIP12 Percentage of degrees awarded in Personal And Culinary Services. 0

PCIP13 Percentage of degrees awarded in Education. 0.1268

PCIP14 Percentage of degrees awarded in Engineering. 0.1432

PCIP15 Percentage of degrees awarded in Engineering Technologies And Engineering-Related Fields. 0.0587

PCIP16 Percentage of degrees awarded in Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics. 0

PCIP19 Percentage of degrees awarded in Family And Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences. 0.0188

PCIP22 Percentage of degrees awarded in Legal Professions And Studies. 0

PCIP23 Percentage of degrees awarded in English Language And Literature/Letters. 0.0235

PCIP24 Percentage of degrees awarded in Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities. 0.0423

PCIP25 Percentage of degrees awarded in Library Science. 0

PCIP26 Percentage of degrees awarded in Biological And Biomedical Sciences. 0.1009

PCIP27 Percentage of degrees awarded in Mathematics And Statistics. 0.0094

PCIP29 Percentage of degrees awarded in Military Technologies And Applied Sciences. 0

PCIP30 Percentage of degrees awarded in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies. 0

PCIP31 Percentage of degrees awarded in Parks, Recreation, Leisure, And Fitness Studies. 0

PCIP38 Percentage of degrees awarded in Philosophy And Religious Studies. 0

PCIP39 Percentage of degrees awarded in Theology And Religious Vocations. 0

PCIP40 Percentage of degrees awarded in Physical Sciences. 0.0188

PCIP41 Percentage of degrees awarded in Science Technologies/Technicians. 0

PCIP42 Percentage of degrees awarded in Psychology. 0.0282

PCIP43 Percentage of degrees awarded in Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting And Related Protective Services. 0.0282

PCIP44 Percentage of degrees awarded in Public Administration And Social Service Professions. 0.0516

PCIP45 Percentage of degrees awarded in Social Sciences. 0.0399

PCIP46 Percentage of degrees awarded in Construction Trades. 0

PCIP47 Percentage of degrees awarded in Mechanic And Repair Technologies/Technicians. 0

PCIP48 Percentage of degrees awarded in Precision Production. 0

PCIP49 Percentage of degrees awarded in Transportation And Materials Moving. 0

PCIP50 Percentage of degrees awarded in Visual And Performing Arts. 0.0258

PCIP51 Percentage of degrees awarded in Health Professions And Related Programs. 0

PCIP52 Percentage of degrees awarded in Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services. 0.1479

PCIP54 Percentage of degrees awarded in History. 0

Admission Rate

0.6538

Average RetentionRate of retention averaged between full-time and part-time students. 0.4428

Retention, Full-Time Students

0.5779

Retention, Part-Time Students

0.3077

Completion Rate

0.1104

Enrollment Number of enrolled students 4505

Male Students Percentage of the student body that is male. 0.4617

Female Students Percentage of the student body that is female. 0.5383

White Percentage of the student body that identifies as white. 0.034

Black Percentage of the student body that identifies as African American. 0.9216

Hispanic Percentage of the student body that identifies as Hispanic or Latino. 0.0058

Asian Percentage of the student body that identifies as Asian. 0.0018

American Indian and Alaskan Native Percentage of the student body that identifies as American Indian or Alaskan Native. 0.0022

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Percentage of the student body that identifies as Native Hawaiian or Pacific islander. 0.0018

Two or More Races Percentage of the student body that identifies as two or more races. 0

Non-Resident Aliens Percentage of the student body that are non-resident aliens. 0.0062

Race Unknown Percentage of the student body for whom racial identity is unknown. 0.0266

Percent Parents no HS Diploma Percentage of parents of students whose highest level of education is less than high school. 0.019298937

Percent Parents HS Diploma Percentage of parents of students whose highest level of education is high school 0.369436786

Percent Parents Post-Secondary Ed. Percentage of parents of students whose highest level of education is college or above. 0.611264277

Title IV Students Percentage of student body identified as Title IV 743

HCM2 Cash Monitoring Schools identified by the Department of Ed for Higher Cash Monitoring Level 2 0

Net Price

13435

Cost of Attendance

20809

In-State Tuition and Fees

9366

Out-of-State Tuition and Fees

17136

Tuition and Fees (Program) Tuition and fees for program-year schools NULL

Tution Revenue per Full-Time Student

9657

Expenditures per Full-Time Student

7941

Average Faculty Salary

7017

Percent of Students with Federal Loan

0.8159

Share of Students with Federal Loan

0.896382157

Share of Students with Pell Grant

0.860906217

Median Loan Principal Amount upon Entering Repayment

14600

Median Debt for Completed Students Median debt for student who completed a course of study 35000

Median Debt for Incompleted Students Median debt for student who did not complete a course of study 9500

Median Debt for Family Income $0K-$30K Median debt for students of families with less thank $30,000 income 14457

Median Debt for Family Income $30K-$75K Median debt for students of families with $30,000-$75,000 income 15000

Median Debt for Family Income over $75K Median debt for students of families with over $75,000 income 14250

Median Debt Female Students

16000

Median Debt Male Students

13750

Median Debt 1st Gen. Students Median debt for first generation college student 14307.5

Median Debt Not 1st Gen. Students Median debt for not first generation college students 14953

Cumulative Loan Debt Greater than 90% of Students (90th Percentile)

48750

Cumulative Loan Debt Greater than 75% of Students (75th Percentile)

32704

Cumulative Loan Debt Greater than 25% of Students (25th Percentile)

5500

Cumulative Loan Debt Greater than 10% of Students (10th Percentile)

3935.5

Accrediting Agency

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges

Website

www.aamu.edu/

Price Calculator

www2.aamu.edu/scripts/netpricecalc/npcalc.htm

Latitude

34.783368

Longitude

-86.568502

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