Saturday, 13 December 2014

Most college students literally have no idea how much they’re paying to go to school

Most college students literally have no idea how much they’re paying to go to school


A majority of first-year undergraduates can't correctly estimate how much student loan debt they're taking on. More surprising, among college freshmen who have taken out federal student loans, more than a quarter (28 percent) don't think they have any federal debt, and 14 percent don't think they have any debt at all. Those are the surprising findings of a new Brookings Institution report authored by Beth Akers and Matt Chingos.

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