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The real student debt problem

Posted on November 18th, 2014

"People focus on the undergraduates, because there are more of them and they’re younger and more naïve. They aren’t really paying attention to graduate students, but graduate students are really stacking up substantial student-loan debt." -- Jon Marcus

When most people talk about student debt, they talk about it in terms of undergraduates. Indeed, undergraduate student debt remains a real issue, with the average graduate leaving college with $29,000 in student loans. But according to Time Magazine, there’s an even bigger problem that’s not frequently talked about in the media: graduate student debt. […]

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