Half of all Mississippi college graduates have loan debt
“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. That’s an increase of almost 4 percent over the amount of debt taken on by Mississippi’s Class of 2016, and about $2,000 more than the national student loan debt average of $28,288.”