Saturday, June 4, 2022

Student Debt’s Impact on Perceived Value of College - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed

Consistent with previous iterations of the survey, a majority of Americans who went to college (52 percent) said that the lifetime benefits of a higher education outweighed the financial costs. Nineteen percent said the benefits did not exceed the costs, and the rest were ambivalent. The differences in perceived value were sharp based on various traits. Fewer than a third (31 percent) of those with some college but no degree said the benefits exceeded the costs, as did 46 percent of those with an associate degree and 67 percent of Americans with a bachelor’s degree or more.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/05/25/young-americans-and-those-debt-see-less-value-college