Fifty percent of students who graduated from a Mississippi college or university in 2017 have student loan debt, owing on average $30,268, according to a new report by LendEDU, a financial product marketplace.

Read The Hechinger Report’s complete analysis here.

Read Mississippi Today’s earlier report by Bobby Harrison,College grads paying the price, here.


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