School debt

[Modular]

I'm interested in how much school debt people have coming out of college. It can be any education level, from Undergrad to PHD

Yes, I searched. No, there were no matches.

Edit: If you want, post your degree(s).

 

[drum]

middle of the road for me. A sizeable amount but could have been worse without some help from my parents

 

[blue1friday2]

A little over 20,000... plus the $700 I have to pay them now if I want a diploma,

 

[FoBoT]

i had about $8K

i didn't pay it off early, i took the whole ten years since the interest rate was always the lowest of all my debts

 

[Gunslinger08]

About $16k. Would have been much less if I hadn't lived so richly while in school. My tuition was paid for by scholarships, but I used student loans for rent, bills, eating, entertainment, etc. I also worked about 15 hours a week, but the pay was bad ($6.50 an hour).

 

[Cal166]

Paid everything while in school because I was working with the same company from HS till the end of my college years.

 

[BRObedoza]

14k for three years

 

[mugs]

I think it was ~$20k originally.

 

[homercles337]

I picked 40-45k for undergrad and grad. Very little from undergrad, and much from grad. Living in berkeley on a $15k/year stipend? I dont think so.

 

[hdeck]

including the interest it's hovering at ~$40k

 

[bleeb]

B.S. Applied Mathematics/Computational Sciences minor in Mathematics
M.A.
PhD.
D.M.D.

 

[andy04]

it was around 14k. About 8k in fees rest just uncontrolled CC spending :beer: :wine: :lips: :gift:

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: bleeb
B.S. Applied Mathematics/Computational Sciences minor in Mathematics
M.A.
PhD.
D.M.D.

How much debt?

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: bleeb
B.S. Applied Mathematics/Computational Sciences minor in Mathematics
M.A.
PhD.
D.M.D.

How much debt?

A LOT ($400K+ )

 

[radioouman]

$0. Undergrad was paid for by what my Grandparents left me along with working.
Paid cash as I went along for my masters.

 

[Corporate Thug]

over 100k

 

[Danman]

$2k. I took out a loan my sophomore year which was a mistake since I didn't need it.

 

[Tommouse]

I'm clocking in around 20k for a BS at a private school. Not too bad if you ask me.

 

[vi edit]

I had a pretty modest $14k coming out of a 4 year private college w/ a CS degree. I have about $3,000 left to pay off that should be dead by May.

My wife on the other hand has a staggering $90k. But she's a Pharmacist with a salary that makes the payments pretty bearable.

 

[dullard]

$8113 total school loans.

BS Chemical Engineering
MS Chemical Engineering - focus on computer modeling of heat transfer
PhD Engineering - focus on chemical engineering and mathematical modelling

I wish now that I got more student loans (since the interest rate is so low). But doing so is in the grey area of the law (you aren't supposed to accept the loans if you don't need them, you aren't supposed to deduct expenses on your taxes if you accepted loans you don't need, etc).

 

[yllus]

$0. But I had to live at home for all of my five years to pull it off. I don't think it was worth the sacrifice.

 

[slsmnaz]

$0 debt. In-state tuition plus I got a 25% discount because mom teaches for the state. Pretty easy to pay it off every semester.

 

[psydancerqt]

if my mom hadnt already paid for half my loan... i'd owe $68,000+ and i'm not done yet. i have 5 more classes to take...i should be done in 2008 sometime.

 

[Deeko]

I'll be graduating in 6 months with about 60k

 

[Dirigible]

~$60k for five years of private undergrad + professional grad degree, mostly from grad school. I took four years to pay it off.