…be in the student loan business –not as lender, contractor of service provision, or subsidizer. Until government withdraws from this market, expect to continue hearing horror stories of students marred…

…from this: First, this new deficit doesn’t even strike me, or most observers, as all that dramatic. The government has nearly $750 billion dollars on its books in student loans,…

These days, Americans are talking a lot about underinflated footballs and overinflated student debt loads. In the latter camp you’ll find the president of Purdue University (and former governor of…

…keep up with the installments due on their student loans. Why can’t graduates of four-year colleges find good jobs? An obvious explanation for college graduates getting dead-end jobs or no…

…to earn enough to pay their student loans without severe difficulty. Will the proposed rule (945 pages long!) solve this problem by cutting off schools from eligibility for federal student…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan Ombudsman has just released his annual report on private student loans. The data in the report suggests that an epidemic of non-repayment is…

…to accommodate the throngs of degree seekers, who were aided by federal student loan programs. Going to law school both delayed the need to start repaying undergraduate loans and appeared…

…that qualify them for the “public service” advantage are pitching that to students. “Georgetown Law, whose students leave school with an average of $146,000 in federal loans, holds a seminar…

…“medically distressed” students be allowed to discharge their student loans. Rubio and Warren’s competing approaches to student loan reform reflect their respective political convictions. Rubio hopes to promote innovative, market-driven…

…2012 graduating class was $21,126 per student. Some 40 percent of the 2012 graduating class had taken out student loans. With a class of about 3,000 students, the total debt…

…available today of how U.S. college students are faring: the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) which surveys students at a broad cross-section of higher education institutions as well as…

…government’s overinvestment in higher education. Indeed, as noted before here, real-estate developers relish their investments in student dorms because they know that, thanks to the generous student-loan program, students and…

…It is these “false starts” that often lead to dismal graduation rates, mounds of student debt, and rampant underemployment. And the best way to help students is to increase accountability…

…now be allowed to do so. In other words, more students will be able to repay less of their taxpayer-subsidized loans. The President has chosen to ease student debt by…

…a small student body, Haverford will still be able to provide its students with opportunities less well endowed colleges cannot provide. While Payscale’s value rankings are not dispositive, Haverford is…

…Education figures. And why shouldn’t more and more students sign up? An op-ed the next day in the Journal explains how it works. In certain cases, students may borrow as…

…most students don’t succeed is not a smart idea. However, rather than prohibit loans to students at some schools, it is more efficient to incentivize the schools to alter their…

…its student financial aid in the form of need-based grants and subsidized loans). The recent recession has only further exacerbated the college affordability problem. States are now so fiscally stretched…

…using data that corrects for some of the measurement problems arising from student transfers. He calculates what state subsidizes students from state appropriations, estimating that nearly $12 billion in appropriations…

…little economic utility as measured by labor markets. The fact that we charge the same interest rate on all student loans, regardless of the income repayment probabilities of the student,…

…changed the federal loan program by removing federal insurance for lenders of student loans and making the federal government the primary direct lender of these loans, it’s hard to argue…

…sharp contrast to the government’s $169 billion a year programs of Pell Grants, student loans, and tax credits. Outstanding student debt exceeds $1 trillion and 40 million graduates are saddled…

…A recent Atlantic piece indicates that while the first half of this year saw a modest decline in the delinquency rate on student loans, by September, nearly 12% of student…

…Obama told students at a Washington, D.C. high school that the administration would work hard to increase the number of low-income students who pursue college degrees. Mrs. Obama also revived…

…to several hundred dollars per student a year. Money is being transferred from students and their parents to university administrators. Often federal student loans help finance this transfer of income…