Month: March 2022

Student Debt by Student Characteristics We continue our exploration into trends in the federal student loan debt included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. This blog post examines federal loan debt across various student characteristics, including gender, first-generation status, Pell status, and institutional specialty status. By way of review, the national average for four-year public…

Student Debt and Demographics: URM Status In this blog post, we continue exploring various aspects of student loan debt, as we seek to greater understanding of the challenges facing students, families, and society. In our previous blog post, Exploring Student Debt: The National Perspective, we presented data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s…