Considering the trend of the last two decades to move financial aid from grant money to student loans, the new National Center for Education Statistics's report on debt burden serves as a timely assessment of the results of this shift. "The study examines the debt of 1992-93 bachelor's degree recipients in light of their financial circumstances in 1997, approximately 4 years after they earned...
Student debt has been in the news lately, and for good reason. Student debt more than doubled between 2004 and 2012, increasing from about 350 million dollars to just shy of one trillion dollars. In 2008, student debt was the smallest of household debts. Today, among household debt, student debt is second only to mortgages, and it has surpassed credit cards. What happened? This Staff Report from...
This National Science Foundation's publication (available in HTML or .pdf) provides "information about the indebtedness of new doctorate recipients from their undergraduate and/or graduate education: tuition and fees; living expenses and supplies; and transportation to and from school."