Detroit Free Press - Thanks to soaring tuition costs, borrowing has become an inescapable fact of college life. Two-thirds of students at four-year colleges carried loan debt in 2004, compared with less than half in 1993, according to the project. "My first advice to ...

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Record Searchlight - Between 2001 and 2006, average tuition jumped 35 percent at public universities, according to the College Board. The average price for private colleges is ... students left four-year undergraduate institutions with about $124 billion in student-loan ...