Tag Archives: student loan debt

Student Loan Debt Spirals at For-Profit Colleges (Page 1 of 2)

Despite the publicity in recent years surrounding an ostensible “student loan crisis” that has saddled a generation of college students and their parents with overwhelming amounts of student loan debt, a large number of college students are actually graduating with

Rising Default Rates on Student Loans Stir Concerns

New data from the U.S. Department of Education show that 2008 was a bad year to graduate from college in terms of student loan defaults. According to the Education Department, 7 percent of the class of 2008 has defaulted on

Minn. Survey Shows Impact of Recession on Student Loan Debt (Page 1 of 2)

The Minnesota State University Student Association has released the results of a survey it issued in September 2010 to help assess the impact of student loan debt on its members. Because the survey’s number of responses is small — just