By Naeem Skief
Student loan debt. as well as the cost of attending college, has been skyrocketing.
Recently LendEDU revealed its 5th annual Student Loan Debt by School by State Report, which is a complete breakdown of the student loan debt figures at hundreds of colleges and universities across the U.S.
Student loan debt in the U.S. stands at $1.67 trillion and Clark Atlanta students rank high among the borrowers.
CAU’s average student loan debt is $40,393, which ranks 438 out of 475 schools. Even in Georgia alone, CAU’s student loan debt ranks 10th in comparison to other local institutions.
“I feel unwanted because my GPA has never been below a 3.25 and I have made the Dean’s List every year. I contribute too much to the academic part of CAU not to be offered any form of scholarship money,” Jeremy Bennett, rising senior said.
Bennett said he feels as though his hard work and dedication to his academics is all for nothing because he still finds himself $100,000+ in student loans.
Adding more fuel to the fire in terms of having an extremely high tuition that leaves many graduate students in debt is that they will be paying the loans off for the majority of their lives.
The average borrower from the class of 2019 at Clark Atlanta left school with about $511 more in student loan debt than students who graduated in 2018.
The state of Georgia ranked 30th in student loan debt on an average of $29,783 and yet Clark’s average borrower was about $40,393 per student.
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