This statistic presents the evaluation of decision to take a student loan by Millennials in the United States in 2014. During the survey period, it was found that 73 percent of the U.S. Millennials, who took out a student loan, thought that taking student loan had been a right choice.
Do you feel like you made the right choice taking out student loans to pay for your education?
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Principal Financial Group. (March 10, 2015). Do you feel like you made the right choice taking out student loans to pay for your education? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/419460/share-of-millennials-considering-student-loans-right-choice-usa/
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Principal Financial Group. (2015). Do you feel like you made the right choice taking out student loans to pay for your education?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/419460/share-of-millennials-considering-student-loans-right-choice-usa/
Principal Financial Group. "Do You Feel like You Made The Right Choice Taking out Student Loans to Pay for Your Education?." Statista, Statista Inc., 10 Mar 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/419460/share-of-millennials-considering-student-loans-right-choice-usa/
Principal Financial Group, Do you feel like you made the right choice taking out student loans to pay for your education? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/419460/share-of-millennials-considering-student-loans-right-choice-usa/ (last visited May 13, 2025)
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