Would you date someone with student loan debt?

[Eclypse]

In the US, the average cost of an undergraduate degree is $26K per year, which is about $104K for a bachelor degree. That's if one attends a private university or college. It could be cheaper (but not by much) at a public university.

 

Your quote of 17-18K for a bachelors degree - which country? Is that per year?

 

This is ridiculous! What's the point of going to university in the US then? Unless your starting salary is 80k+ do people ever pay it off? I go to a public university in Australia. Each subject is $500-600. 8 per year. Its a condition of being accepted into phd that you have a government scholarship which pays for whatever tuitiOn fees it has and gives you 20-26k a year allowance.

 

Of course this is for public universities. I'm not sure about private, they are fairly rare here. And masters cost a bit more, but half the places are govt subsidized so around 1000-1500ish per subject. Not sure about full fee paying.

 

Also I did science subjects. The government subsidizes those considerably compared to the artsy ones.

[William]

Not exactly the direction the topic started as, so we'll move on now.