As of May 2013, total outstanding student loan debt in the United States had reached $1.2 trillion, up from $1 trillion fewer than 18 months before. The growth in debt is due primarily to increases in both the rate of borrowing and the average amount borrowed, especially among graduates of 4-year institutions. In 1989-90, about half (51 percent)…

Statistics in Brief publications present descriptive data in tabular formats to provide useful information to a broad audience, including members of the general public. They address simple and topical issues and questions. Using data from 2011-12, this Statistics in Brief updates and expands on a previous National Center for Education Statistics…

The recent significant increase in student loan delinquencies has generated interest in understanding the key factors predicting the non-performance of these loans. However, despite the large size of the student loan market, existing analyses have been limited by lack of data. This paper studies predictors of student loan delinquencies using a…

Using the 2007-2008 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, this study tested positively the hypothesis that college students are either likely to acquire debt above the national median or work more than 30 hours a week in order to graduate from a four year degree within six years. These results resonate with the theory of academic capitalism,…

Understanding how policy can affect university education is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. This paper exploits historic changes to university funding policies in the UK to estimate the impact of tuition fees and maintenance grants on university participation. Previous work on this, which largely…

This report presents supplemental information the the initial Carnegie Commission report concerning tuition. Emphasis is placed on policy issues to be resolved, reasons for the commission's recommendations on tuition; more recent and more precise information; disaggregation of data by type of institutions; disaggregation of data by State; contrast…

Trends in medical student financing from 1973-74, when the Public Health Service and National Health Service Corps (PH/NHSC) scholarship and the Armed Forces Health Professions scholarship programs were created, to 1975-76 are investigated. Major variables in the study include specific sources of student assistance, tuition rates, and gross…

In this study on financial aid to students in higher education, descriptive data are provided on differences found among states, institutional sectors, and income groups with respect to student costs and sources of funding, the reduction in cost of attendance due to the distribution of aid, and the resulting amount of overmet or undermet financial…

Educational loan limits for graduate and professional students were estimated to provide manageable repayments that were a proportion of the borrowers' future consumption budget data. Based on each professional group's income profile, loan repayments were computed for each year of repayment and summed across alternative repayment periods to arrive…

This report is concerned with the future of private higher education, however, the recommendations it offers, are directed to the public interest in strengthening the whole higher educational system. The private sector of higher education is enormously valuable to American society and is an influential complement to the public sector. The…

This survey, developed with the underlying philosophy of uncovering basic attitudes of students, reached approximately 11,000 students representing diverse interests, ages, programs, geographic locales, and socioeconomic backgrounds from 188 institutions. Of these 11,000 students, approximately 25 percent responded to the survey instrument and…

Using the most current national data available, a study investigated the level on Ontario's contributions to its university system in relation to nine other Canadian provinces. The approach was to trace the student enrollment figures and provincial contributions to operating revenues from 1971-72 until 1973-74 in order to determine the levels of…

The scope and operation of New York State's financial aid programs for 1977-78 are described, and recommendations to improve educational opportunity are presented. It is concluded that the development and expansion of the programs in 1978 indicate that they are effectively facilitating access and choice. During 1977-78 the average awards under the…

This analysis investigates the relationship between (1) income and expenses of medical students, and (2) selected characteristics of the medical schools they attended by assessing the degree to which variation in student financing patterns are explained by differences among medical schools. The data used in this study were derived from anonymous…

Several variables related to the independence of a student were identified and translated into alternative definitions, which were then tested against a data base collected by the College Entrance Examination Board. The study sample included 32,673 undergraduate students attending at least half time and was as representative as possible of the…