The government gets to borrow for 10 years paying less than 2 percent interest on U.S. Treasury notes, while students must pay 6.8 percent interest on the loans they get from the government!

US News and World report recently ranked the 10 colleges that graduate students with the most debt. On the list are mostly small, private institutions...

NEW YORK -- College students who graduated with bachelor's degrees in 2011 left school with the largest average student debt load in history, accordin...

A new report released Tuesday warns that student loan debt could cut a large population of people out of the housing market, having significant conseq...

Santorum needn't worry. America is already making it harder for young people of modest means to attend college. Public higher education is being starved, and the middle class will shrink even more as a result.

In which states are students in the most debt? According to a new report, it's New Hampshire -- where the average student debt tops $31,000. This i...

-- Members of the college class of 2010 who took out student loans owed on average $25,250 upon graduation, a 5 percent increase from the year before...

Student loan debt has increased 25 percent since 2008, according to new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Wall Street Journal rep...

According to the newly released Project on Student Debt, the average student debt load in America is $24,000 -- but in some states, the average reache...

The average student debt load for a member of the class of 2009? $24,000, according to a new report from the Project on Student Debt. This figure repr...

According to a new report from the College Board, only a third of bachelor's degree-seeking students don't take out loans to pay for their education. ...