Students are often surprised by their own debt when graduating college, according to a recent study.
Mortgages are the only debt outstanding that is greater than student loans.
Student debt in America has approached crisis level and become a roadblock to opportunity for many people...
Ironically, graduates can help themselves avoid the pitfalls of college by becoming better educated...
With student loans being handed out like candy, borrowers across the nation are struggling with their decision to fund college through debt...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor has shown that college-educated workers were the only group to see an increase (9 percent) in employment since 2008...
The skyrocketing price of a college education is causing an epidemic with student loans...
The younger generation, which is more likely to be first-time home buyers, are also seeing troubling rises in the delinquency rates of student loans...
Making matters worse, the weak economy is causing more people to go back to school and rack up even more debt...
It is too soon to tell if the trend will continue, but those under 35 years old are reducing debt loads substantially faster than older adults...
The sky-rocketing costs of college have been outpacing inflation for years...