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The Cost Of Graduate School

Seth Sawyers / Creative Commons

If you’re a graduate student, chances are, you leave school with more than just a degree: you leave with debt; sometimes a lot of it. About a quarter of grad students borrow more than $100,000. The average? About $57,000 in loans for undergraduate and graduate school.

We hear first from Andy Bridges, who lives in Baltimore. He got his Master's in Applied and Professional Ethics at UMBC in 2004. Then, Sheilah talks with Jason Delisle, Director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, a think tank in DC. Earlier this year, he wrote a policy brief on the state of grad student debt.

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.