Students tap many types of aid to go to college, but the form of aid that has a lasting effect for many of them is loans. Our charts show how the effects of student-loan debt compare with those of other forms of household debt.
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The average amount of aid was highest for recipients of Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, but the highest number of recipients was for education tax benefits.
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Grants and scholarships covered a larger share of the cost of college than did student and parent borrowing combined for families of all income levels.
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Average grant aid per student has more than doubled from 1997-98 to 2017-18. Average federal loans did not keep pace.
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Parents with the highest incomes tended to borrow the largest sums of money for their children’s college education.
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The only age group for which student-loan debt represented the highest share of overall household debt was 18- to 29-year-olds.
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In the first quarter of 2019, 10.9 percent of all student debt owed was seriously delinquent.
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The share of tuition revenue that went back to first-time, full-time freshmen in discounts surpassed 50 percent in the last two academic years.
