Couple thousand. Not real sure of the actual number....Used to be 5k but tax money paid that loan off from that school.
Mine is down to about $11k. Can't remember how high it was, but I spent nearly 7 years in school. No, I'm not a doctor.
I'm at nearly $15k right now. I'm graduating this fall with no plans for grad school as of now, so I'll be fine.
At about $11k now, graduated with about $20k. Just paid off the higher interest portion of my loan, so now at 4.5% and paying the minimum while I go after paying off the car.
Graduated with about 15K. Paid it all off couple years ago. best feeling on Earth. Parents paid for a large chunk of my schooling.
$0 I went to JC the first couple of years and paid cash money... I started getting grants/loans when I went to UofH and paid cash for some...my parents helped what they could, with books, etc...I can't remember what the total was, but it was below $10K for sure... My first bonus at Enron paid that bad boy off...I was making too much for me to get any tax benefit for the loans and couldn't deduct the interest, plus I wanted to peace of mind to say I paid it off myself...
In my discipline, there were many more grad students than undergrads. There were more graduate TA's, too, but there were plenty of undergrads.
45K and depressed over it. I will have to wait 25 years before it is all paid. I will be 60 and still paying for my education.
Why? As long as you got a degree with it and can eventually land a decent salary, start running a debt snowball- pay off all debts one at a time by maximizing payment on the smallest one and paying the minimum on the rest (hopefully you don't have a lot of debt besides the loan). Continuously do this until each debt disappears and then you can put every free dollar toward the loan. Don't finance anything like a car or a house until it's paid off, and don't blow money on anything that isn't a necessity. Every dollar that is not going towards food, utilities, or rent should go to debt. It will take you 25 years if you just pay the minimum forever, so don't do it that way.
$3k for undergrad, ~$75k for grad (economics), ~$80k for law school, ~$85k for b-school.. $243k total debt Will be working my butt off for the next 5 years to repay it.
I wanted to get in on this program but haven't been able to find a public sector job yet. If you don't mind me asking, what type of job did you get? I would love to be able to get a public sector job that allows me to move to Texas.
Paying 80+k for a degree is lunacy in my book, but at least those degrees are in considerably well-paying fields.
A not-so-wise friend once told me the key is never taking on more student loan debt than what you would expect your average annual salary to be over the first 5 years of employment. It sounded cool in concept but I have no idea if he was just pulling stuff out of his butt hole or not, which I suspect. Any truth to this? If so, I am in pretty good shape!
