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Re:How America's universities became debt factories by TeaBrain on Saturday September 14, 2024 @04:35PM (#41542636)
You're conflating current disbursements with the outstanding debt, which is what the original assertion was on. Either way it is looked at though, their assertion is wrong.
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Re:How America's universities became debt factories by lapcat on Saturday September 14, 2024 @04:42PM (#41542698)
> You're conflating current disbursements with the outstanding debt

No, I was just googling for stats, and that's what I was able to find. Here's something else though: "46% of federal student loan debt belonged to graduate student borrowers in 2017." https://educationdata.org/average-graduate-student-loan-debt

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