Loan Repayment Status by Institutional Type This blog post represents the eighth and final contribution in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. The previous blog post explored the relationship between loan repayment rate and the percentage of students from underserved/underrepresented student populations. The data…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time This blog post represents the seventh in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. In our previous blog post, we started looking at trends in student loan repayment of beginning balances. Using the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data, we…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time In our previous blog posts, we reviewed a number of trends in the federal student loan debt data that are included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. The College Scorecard student loan debt data are different from other sources, as the cohorts included in the data are comprised of…
Student Debt by Student Characteristics We continue our exploration into trends in the federal student loan debt included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. This blog post examines federal loan debt across various student characteristics, including gender, first-generation status, Pell status, and institutional specialty status. By way of review, the national average for four-year public…
Student Debt and Demographics: URM Status In this blog post, we continue exploring various aspects of student loan debt, as we seek to greater understanding of the challenges facing students, families, and society. In our previous blog post, Exploring Student Debt: The National Perspective, we presented data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s…
Exploring Student Debt: The National Perspective As we continue our look into the various aspects of student educational debt, we shift our focus from a Texas-only review in our previous blog posts (here and here) to review the national trends. Even though the Texas data as tracked in the 60x30TX Plan show that student loan debt indicators…
Student Debt to 1st-Year Earnings: THECB’s 60x30TX Goals This blog post is the second in our series exploring student loan debt. Our previous blog post showed promising trends in terms of the percentage of bachelor’s graduates at Texas public universities who graduate with student loan debt decreasing from 62.5% in 2014 to 56.4% in 2020, as…
Exploring Student Debt: THECB’s 60x30TX goals For followers of higher education trends, stories detailing the student loan debt crisis is nothing new. With 45 million borrowers owing nearly $1.7 trillion in student loan debt as of 2021, and with President Biden extending the federal student loan repayment freeze through May 1, 2022, the topic of…
University Comparisons of Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers in Texas In our last blog post, we presented data from a recent report published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) that addressed gaps in graduation outcomes for transfer students when comparing them with native students. The data were presented as a comparison of public university…