The GOP’s new limits on student loans could price low-income students out of pursuing professional and graduate degrees.

Hempstead, N.Y.: Nurse Practitioner Daniah Jean-Francois talks about the staffing challenges. Challenges that could be made worse by new caps on federal student loans for most graduate school programs ...

Politicians from both sides of the aisle sharply criticized the Education Department’s narrow interpretation of the legislation, which limits the number of students with access to large federal loans.

Students who have federal loans going into graduate school will not have to worry about repayment plans because those loans ...

An expansive overhaul to the federal student loan program includes new borrowing caps that industry groups and advocates say could curtail the number of prospective graduate students who ...

PROGRAMS AND THE AMOUNT OF DEBT STUDENTS NEED TO TAKE ON THE LAST TIME THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION UPDATED THE DEFINITION OF PROFESSIONAL DEGREE, IT WAS THE 1970S. SO IT’S BEEN SOME TIME THAT ...

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New data maps the average student loan balance per borrower in every U.S. state, from $31,800 in the lowest state to $126,500 ...

Before taking out a federal student loan, borrowers should first research the four different types.