Key Points ・Students looking for graduate school loans have two options starting in 2026: Federal Direct Loans and private student loans. ・There are new caps on federal student loans depending if ...

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Key Points ・The Big Beautiful Bill eliminates Grad PLUS loans beginning in the 2026-27 school year. ・Graduate students will face stricter borrowing caps and need rely on unsubsidized federal loans or ...

College costs continue to climb, and with them, the financial burden of earning a degree. While scholarships, grants and federal student loans help ease the load, they often aren't enough to cover the ...

The federal cap on the amounts people can borrow means some of them will fall short. That’s especially true for students in professional schools. By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber took out his first student ...

Last year, the federal student loan interest rates for undergraduate borrowers hit a decade-high average of 6.53%, and graduate student loan rates climbed to over 8%. Some of you are paying less, of ...

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*Note - Graduate and professional students are no longer eligible to receive Federal Direct Subsidized Loans after 7/1/2012. What's the average student loan debt? The average student loan debt of ...