Recent Data and Research

See also Project on Student Debt Publications

For older research please visit the Archived Data and Research section

Calculating Cost-Return for Investments in Student Success
The Delta Cost Project and Jobs for the Future, January 2010

Working Too Hard to Make the Grade
CalPIRG, October 2009

Trends in College Pricing, 2009
College Board, October 2009

Trends in Student Aid, 2009
College Board, October 2009

How Much Are College Students Borrowing?
College Board, August 2009

Drowning in Debt: The Emerging Student Loan Crisis
Education Sector, July 2009

Rethinking the Middleman: Federal Student Loan Guaranty Agencies
New America Foundation, July 2009

Characteristics of Private Student Loan Borrowers Who Do Not Use Federal Education Loans
Mark Kantrowitz, June 2009

Characteristics of Borrowers with Excessive Debt
Mark Kantrowitz, May 2009

How Undergraduate Students Use Credit Cards
Sallie Mae, April 2009

Closing the Gap: Meeting California's Need for College Graduates
Public Policy Institute of California, April 2009

Trends in College Spending: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does it Go?
Delta Cost Project, January 2009

Measuring Up 2008
The National Center For Public Policy and Higher Education, December 2008

Cost Estimates for Federal Student Loans: The Market Cost Debate
New America Foundation, October 2008

Apply to Succeed: Ensuring Community College Students Benefit from Need-Based Financial Aid
The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, September 2008

Fulfilling the Commitment: Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid
The Rethinking Student Aid Study Group, September 2008

Income-Based Repayment: Making it Work for Student Loan Borrowers
Student Loan Borrower Assistance, July 2008

Cutting Interest Rates, Lowering Student Debt Updated
Public Interest Research Groups, June 2008

Trends in Undergraduate Borrowing II: Federal Student Loans in 1995–96, 1999–2000, and 2003–04
National Center for Education Statistics, March 2008

Paying the Price: The High Cost of Private Student Loans and the Dangers for Student Borrowers
Student Loan Borrower Assistance, March 2008

Student Loans for Higher Education
California Research Bureau, February 2008

Finding A Way Out: Improving the Assistance Network for Financially Distressed Student Loan Borrowers
Student Loan Borrower Assistance, December 2007

Trends in Student Aid, 2007
The College Board, October 2007

Hidden Details: A Closer Look at Student Loan Default Rates
Education Sector, October 2007

Who Borrows Private Loans?
American Council on Education, August 2007

Helping Families Finance College: Improved Consumer Disclosures and Counseling
Consumers Union, July 2007

Report on Marketing Practices in the Federal Family Education Loan Program
U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, June 2007

Financing the Future: Responses to the Rising Debt of Law Students
Equal Justice Works, January 2007

Cutting Interest Rates, Lowering Student Debt
Public Interest Research Groups, January 2007