They will also be joining the millions of other graduates working to pay off the student debt they accumulated throughout college.
According to The Student Loan Report, there are 44,179,100 current student loan borrowers, or 70% of the students in the U.S. Collectively, they contribute to a national student loan debt total of $1.41 trillion. Additionally, the average student debt per borrower is an intimidating $27,857.
We wanted to find out how prepared the college graduates of 2017 were to tackle their student debt. To do this, Student Loan Report has commissioned a survey of 400 four year college graduates from the Class of 2017 that have student loan debt.