Average bachelor's degree in the 90s was $9k... I know inflation matters, but still that would only be like $22k today..... inflation makes me want to scream  

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I owe 116K
I did a bachelors and masters, however my employer paid for the majority of my masters.

Room and board are the absolute seal of debt.

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Fair point.

I owe almost 50k for my bachelor degree. It makes me sick to see the interest accrued on the higher percentage ones, which I thankfully only have a few of. I wish I would have been more frugal getting mine, but a little too late now.

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At least, you should be able to make enough to pay it back!

$22k where?? That’s cheap

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Not saying its $22k anywhere, saying that if the $9k degree in the 90s was adjusted for inflation it would be, comparably, $22k today.

That’s not inflation, it’s the result of guaranteed student loans for art degrees

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Unfortunately, all of this student loan attention has just made more people skip going to college. That’s not good for the future. We need to figure out some way to make it more affordable across the board but that won’t happen! Our country has some difficult problems and all our politicians want to do is dig in and play partisan politics. I hope all of us who are trying for debt relief get it in case the crazies get back in!

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