Starting July 2026, federal student loans will be overhauled: Existing borrowers will lose access to several income-driven repayment plans and must switch to a tiered standard plan or the new ...

A group of five young adult students engaged in a discussion around a table. Despite repayments on federal student loans resuming late last year, much is still up in the air with student loan debt.

Total student loan debt in the U.S. stood at $1.6 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2023, representing 9% of overall household debt. Nearly 46 million Americans hold some federal student loan debt as ...

Student loan debt is now the second largest source of household debt in the United States, tied with auto loans. Depending on the data source, average monthly student loan payments for a borrower with ...

There are over 42.3 million student loan borrowers that have a total of $1.81 trillion in student loan debt. Here is the average student loan debt balance by state. While the average balances across ...

Why Washington, D.C., leads the nation in average student loan balances and how graduate education affects debt levels across the U.S.