Life After College: Where Did All Of That Student Debt Come From Anyway?

Wondering where your student debt comes from? We can tell you why, and what you can do about it too.

Graduating from college sure was exciting...until you remembered you had to pay back those loans.

And you begin to wonder why you had to take out a gajillion dollars in student loans in the first place

Was it really necessary that colleges needed to have winding, lazy rivers, or walk-in dorm closets?

For the price you were paying for student services, you were disappointed the butter on your popcorn for movie nights wasn’t made of gold

You know your professors weren’t getting paid that much -- they were always complaining about budget cuts

But your school still managed to find $12.4 million for a new “squash court” where rich people play tennis with the wall.

on the Titanic squash was played in speedos.

But it’s not entirely your school’s fault -- the state keeps cutting aid for higher education because they know that colleges can replace those cuts with higher tuition

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities / Via cbpp.org

Which means more money that comes out of your pocket...

“Education should not be a debt sentence!” you say -- “the cost of college is too damn high!”

We agree -- stop the debt-for-diploma system and join the I AM NOT A LOAN campaign to make college affordable.

Join us: I AM NOT A LOAN