Graduate student loans, by type U.S. 2004-2020

Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 30, 2025
This statistic shows the total borrowing by graduate students to finance higher education in the United States from 2004/2005 to 2019/2020, by loan type. In the academic year 2019/2020, total borrowing by graduate students amounted to about 37.3 billion 2019 U.S. dollars.

Total annual borrowing by graduate students for higher education in the United States from 2004/2005 to 2019/2020, by loan type (in 2019 billion U.S. dollars)

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Release date

October 2020

Region

United States

Survey time period

2004/2005 to 2019/2020

Supplementary notes

Graduate students became eligible to borrow PLUS Loans in 2006-07.

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