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Debt Burden of College Graduates
Table S38.  Standard errors for the percentage of 1992–93 and 1999–2000 bachelor’s degree recipients who had borrowed for their undergraduate education, average total amount borrowed by borrowers (in 1999 constant dollars), and among those in repayment a year later, average monthly salary and loan payment (in 2001 constant dollars) and median debt burden, by type of degree-granting institution

  All graduates
  Borrowers
  Borrowers in repayment
Type of degree-granting
institution
Percent who
had borrowed
  Average amount
borrowed
  Average monthly
salary
Average monthly
loan payment
Median debt
burden

  1992–93
  1994
    Total 0.78   $180   $100 $3 0.18
Public 4-year 0.84   210   130 3 0.24
  Nondoctoral 1.64   410   130 5 0.35
  Doctoral 1.03   270   190 4 0.27
               
Private not-for-profit 4-year 1.37   330   70 7 0.32
  Nondoctoral 1.94   550   100 7 0.39
  Doctoral 1.65   640   100 16 0.58
               
  1999–2000
  2001
    Total 0.54   $260   $40 $3 0.14
Public 4-year 0.75   300   30 3 0.20
  Nondoctoral 1.63   450   60 6 0.34
  Doctoral 0.85   360   40 4 0.23
               
Private not-for-profit 4-year 1.16   510   90 7 0.25
  Nondoctoral 1.54   570   130 10 0.29
  Doctoral 1.50   970   90 10 0.40

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, 1993/94 and 2000/01 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Studies (B&B:93/94 and B&B:2000/01).

 

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