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Malte  Nyfos  Mathiasen          University  of  California  at  Berkeley   May  12,  2014  Professor  Neil  Fligstein             SOC  280Q    

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 Financialization  and  Student  Funding  in  Higher  Education  

Malte  Nyfos  Mathiasen      

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Malte  Nyfos  Mathiasen          University  of  California  at  Berkeley   May  12,  2014  Professor  Neil  Fligstein             SOC  280Q    

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Table  of  Contents  

Abstract  ..........................................................................................................................................  3  

Introduction  .................................................................................................................................  4  

Historical  brief  of  the  U.S.  field  of  Higher  Education,  1947-­‐2010  ..............................  5  

Literature  review  ........................................................................................................................  6  

Detailing research design  ...........................................................................................................  10  

Research  question  ...................................................................................................................  10  

Variables  .....................................................................................................................................  10  

Empirical  evidence  ..................................................................................................................  12  

Conclusion  ..................................................................................................................................  17  

Literature  ...................................................................................................................................  18  

Appendix  A  .................................................................................................................................  20  

 

   

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Abstract  

The paper investigates the relationship between types of higher educational in-

stitutions and student loans. It briefly reviews the expansion of higher education since

WW2 and captures other theories of welfare retrenchment and privatization of risk

around the Millennium, which argue for a substantial shift in, who and how actors pay

for higher education.

The paper explores the IPEDS dataset for 3.321 public, private non-profit and

private for-profit institutions for the period of 2000-11 and identifies that the increase

in student loans follows a general trend for the field of educational institutions, espe-

cially 4-year institutions and private for-profit institutions have steeply increased from

an average 4486 dollars to 9727.

   

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Introduction  

Student  loans  are  becoming  a  huge  issue  in  the  United  States,  as  they  grow  

and  disproportionally  are  turned  to  by  underprivileged  groups  and  students,  who  

have  a  hard  time  repaying  their  education  after  graduation  and  getting  a  return  for  

their   initial   investment   (Eaton  &  Stewart,   2013:  9f).  Arguments  have  been  made  

that  student  loans  put  a  to  hard  burden  on  students  expectations  for  future  wages  

and  do  not  reflect  the  realization  of  the  current  state  of  the  American  Dream  and  

wage  premiums  after  graduation.  Though  the  wage  premium  make  it  costly  choice  

also  not  to  aspire  for  the  college  premium.  Illustratively,  Rothstein  and  Rouse  find  

that  the  college  wage  premium  from  1993  to  2005  rose  with  23  %,  as  the  tuition  

fees  in  public  and  private  colleges  rose  by  63  %  and  43  %  (2011:  1)  In  this  competi-­‐

tive  field  institutions  might  specialize  and  establish  niches  to  attract,  invest  in  and  

profit  on  students.    

Others  state  that  loans  are  a  necessary  precondition  for  educational  invest-­‐

ments  and  competitive  advantages  among  other  states,  and  here  at  Berkeley  one  

can  see  that  the  increase  in  student  loans  reflect  an  institutional  change  from  rela-­‐

tive  inexpensive  or  free  education  funded  by  the  state  government  to  a  larger  eco-­‐

nomical  burden  on  the  students  to  provide  their  own  funding.  This  is  what  Hackert  

calls  an   individualization  of   risk,  where   the  system  of  higher  education  as  one  of  

many  institutions  (another  example  is  the  pension  system  in  the  U.S.  case)  experi-­‐

ence  a  shift  from  collective  utility  and  risk  to  an  individual  risk    (Hackert,  2004).  

 Higher education can also be considered a public good in the sense that it creates

positive externalities in forms of rising productivity and taxable income.  These  different  

arguments   correspond   in   general   to   the   narratives  we   find   in   public  media   and  

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scholarly   approaches   emphasizing   how   finance   disciplines   borrowers   (Rajan,  

2011)  and  reshapes  citizens  (Davis,  2009)  in  the  subfield  of  education  and  with  in-­‐

dividual  impact  for  a  long  period  after  graduation.  

Yet  it  is  not  so  well  theorized  how  increasing  tuition  fees  and  student  loans  

coincide  with  changes  in  the  field  of  higher  education  and  emergence  of  financiali-­‐

zation.  Most  have  been  written  in  the  field  of  economy,  and  more  is  needed  on  how  

the  actors  interact,  and  loans  and  finance  rewrite  the  meaning  of  higher  education.  

Another  interesting  next  step  would  be  to  compare  student  loans,  other  household  

loans  and  financialization  of  higher  education   internationally  and  situate   it   in  the  

literature  of  varieties  of  capitalism  (Hall  &  Soskice,  2001),  because  there  are  large  

variation  in  different  types  of  debt,  e.g.  there  are  Scandinavian  and  European  coun-­‐

tries  with  huge  housing  debt  but  little  student  debt  that  complicates  a  straightfor-­‐

ward   theory,  where  varieties  of  capitalism  could  explain   the  variation.   Instead   in  

this  paper  I  emphasize  the  U.S.  and  dynamics  at  a  state  level.  Through  the  paper  I  

aim   to   explore   the  mechanism   that   links   financialization   and   student   loans,   and  

how  it  impacts  different  types  of  institutions  and  students.  

Historical  brief  of  the  U.S.  field  of  Higher  Education,  1947-­‐2010  The G.I. bill with its benefits for WW2 veterans launched the educational boom in the

U.S. in the period of 1947-65. With The Great Society program President Johnson

addressed poverty and racial injustice in 1965 but also tripled the funds for higher ed-

ucation and made a centralized funding metric to allocate the resources, instituting the

federal government as a central player across the variation from different states. In

1972 President Richard Nixon expanded the grant and loan system and established the

precondition for the today’s funding system. The system had a clear division between

grants and loans and worked as a voucher system, where individual students had a

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right to access and direct federal and state level subsidies often mediated through edu-

cational institutions, private accredited agencies and private-public businesses, such

as the loan agency Sally Mae (Eaton et al., 2014: 8f).

 

Literature  review  

I  believe  Polanyi  and  Granovetter’s  theory  of  embeddedness  is  an  adequate  

starting  point  to  explain  how  state  and  nation  play  an  evident  and  clearly  embed-­‐

ded  role  in  the  market  of  student  loans  and  are  pivotal  for  valuing  the  price  and  in-­‐

terest   rate   of   student   loans.   The   case   of   student   loans   can  with   the   terminology  

from  Fligstein  and  McAdam  (2011)  illustrate  a  strategic  action  field,  where  domi-­‐

nating  interests  of  finance  has  contributed  to  the  current  student  distribution,  and  

influences,   who   and   how   students   are   educated   and   dispose   over   their   further  

work  life.  In  this  broad  perspective  we  might  also  expect  student  loans  to  coincide  

with   lower   subsidies   for   universities   and   alternative   payment   possibilities   than  

through  parental  saving.  The  definition  of  financialization  as  a  dual  process,  where  

public  actors  contest  and  imitate  finance  as  the  dominant  actor,  can  be  helpful  to  

understand   emergence   of   new   actors   and  partnerships,   institutional   norms,   per-­‐

ceptions  and  regulations  (Scott,  1995).  Based  on  the  above  assumption  and  the  in-­‐

troduction  one  might  make  some  preliminary  characterization  about  who  the   in-­‐

debted   students   in   the   field   of   education   are   and   how   they   provide   the   ongoing  

cash  flow:  

 

A)  Increased  dependence  on  loans  through  financial  channels  is  associat-­‐

ed  with  a  decline  of  1)  not  indebted  students  and  2)  students  from  lower  

socioeconomic  background.  

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B)  Student  loans  are  affected  by  state  and  federal  embeddedness  and  po-­‐

litical  will  to  differentiate  the  cost  and  investment  of  higher  education  and  

diversify  control  to  private  actors  in  the  immediate  past.  New  institution-­‐

al  actors,  who  can  balance  student  tuition  and  expenses  differently,  will  

therefore  attract  different  subsamples  of  the  student  population.  

Another   important  matter   is   that   the  division  between  public   and  private  

interest   and   agency   often   is   overstated.   Higher   education   is   a   prominent   case,  

where   business   and   public   community   create   value   and   cooperate.   A   larger   in-­‐

volvement  of   finance  and  business  need  to  be  carefully  comprehended,  and  if  my  

hypothesis  that  student  loans  is  associated  with  decline  from  lower  socioeconomic  

background,  turns  out  to  be  true,  the  socioeconomic  consequences  of  indebtedness  

can  be  disclosed.    

By  attentive  studying  the  different  types  of  institutions  we  might  explore  a  contin-­‐

uum  in-­‐between  public  and  private  education   that  can  reflect  how  the  pattern  of  

educational  institutions  over  time  evolve.  

Lin  and  Tomaskovic-­‐Devey   (2013:  1291)  argue   that   financialization   is   a  

major  factor  for  wage  inequality  and  can  explain  a  substantial  part  of  the  varia-­‐

tion,   constituting   equal   parts   as   education   and   deunionization.   They   define   fi-­‐

nancialization  since  the  late  1970  as  two  interdependent  processes,  where  one  is  

the  rising  dominance  of  the  finance  sector  and  the  other  is  non-­‐finance  firms’  in-­‐

volvement  in  financial  services  and  investments.  Thus,  in  the  field  of  higher  edu-­‐

cation  one  might  expect  to  find  rising  involvement  by  finance  sector’s  actors  and  

universities   and   others   governance   structures   appropriating   strategies   of   fi-­‐

nance.    

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Due  to  student  loans’  entanglement  in  the  financial  system,  one  might  ex-­‐

pect  student  loans  to  have  a  similar  relationship  with  financialization  as  Lin  and  

Tomaskovic-­‐Devey  find  with  wages.  One  might  even  expect  a  stronger  relation-­‐

ship,   since   student   loans   reflect   households’   ability   to   pay   for   education   with  

their   savings   and   thus   consist   of   intergenerational   asset   inequality   rather   than  

income  inequality.    

One  might  expect  to  find  a  stronger  relationship  between  financialization  

and  private  institutions.  One  might  also  expect  to  see  a  larger  shift  to  financiali-­‐

zation   in   larger   institutions,  which  have   the   capacities   to   incubate   financial   in-­‐

vestment  and  withstand  external  pressure  and  at  the  same  time  is  a  sizable  tar-­‐

get  for  Wall  Street.  Though,  one  might  also  expect  community  colleges  and  public  

universities  to  be  more  receptive  to  communal  students’  needs.  

Meister  (2011)  states  that  there  has  been  a  strategical  turn  from  Universi-­‐

ty  of  California  to  accommodate  more  out-­‐state  students,  from  whom  they  profit  

more,  than  in-­‐state  students.  By  informal  agreement  between  UC  and  the  State  of  

California  the  University  have  been  allowed  to  treat  tuition  fees  as  capital  rather  

than  public   revenue.   In   this  way  Meister  argues   that   the  state  and   federal  gov-­‐

ernment   through   the   Student   Loan   Program   subsidize   privatization   and   finan-

cialization of Higher Education.

Eaton et al. (2014) find that a rising share of spending on education is finan-

cialized and channelized as financial profit from $21 billion in 2002 to $45 billion in

2012 on Wall Street either by 1) growing interest on student loan debts, 2) through

interest paid by colleges’ on their own institutional debts, and 3) through profits ac-

crued by equity investors in for-profit colleges. The three mechanisms all impact how

the average indebted student’s prospects will look like

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Eaton  et  al.   (2013)  display   that   for  UC  debt  General  Revenue  Bonds  are  

half   the   share   and   Medical   Center   Revenue   Bonds,   Limited   Projects   revenue  

Bonds  and  State  Public  Works  Board  Bonds  share  the  other  half.  In  Swapping  our  

Future   they   argue   that   UC   should   renegotiate   its   swapped   fixed   interest   rate,  

since  it  does  not  reflect  the  current  interest  rate  after  the  financial.  

Mettler   calls  U.S.   social   governed  programs   for   the   submerged   state,   be-­‐

cause   the   consumer  does  not  directly   interact  with   federal   institutions   (2010).  

Instead  private  providers,  who  are  funded,  regulated  and  subsidized,  handle  the  

interaction.    

Similarly,  Morgan  &   Campbell   phrase   it   a   delegated   state   to   emphasize,  

how  federal  power  and  money  is  delegated  to  private  providers  on  behalf  of  the  

state  (2011).   In  sum,  the  theories  place  the  federal   level  as  very  central   for  the  

field   of   higher   education   through   it   capability   to   sublease  other   actors,   though  

the   system   is   very   decentralized  with  many   accredited   and   subsidized   private  

actors  and  difficult  to  navigate  in  for  students  as  consumers.    

The  institute  for  College  Access  and  Success  reports  that  federal  loans  of-­‐

ten   are   supplemented  with  private   loans.   So   far   I   have   only   encountered   good  

statistics  for  federal  loans,  which  also  tend  to  be  easier  to  distinguish  from  loans  

and  credits  used  for  other  amenities.  A  good  reason  not   to  emphasize  on  other  

types  of  private  student   loans  and  consumer  loans,  can  be  found  in  Eaton  et  al.  

(2014).  Here  they  find  that  the  federal  government  directly  guarantees  90  %  of  

student  loans  and  private  loan  originators  have  imploded  in  the  market  for  stu-­‐

dent  loan  (ibid.  13f).    

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Detailing research design

I need a data source, where it is possible to crosstab types of higher education

institutions with average debt levels for student. For the purpose I use a large dataset

from IPEDS, which is part of the U.S Department of Education and has been generat-

ed by the National Center for Education Statistics. The dataset has 933 variables and

consists of aggregated institutional data from 2000-2010. Unfortunately, the dataset

does not provide individual level variables on student, why it is unsuitable to explain

how race, gender and class are mediated through loan levels in different types of insti-

tutions. As mentioned initially and reported by Eaton & Stewart (2013: 9f) earlier stud-

ies clearly indicate that minorities and students with lower socioeconomic status are par-

ticularly affected and increasingly turn to student loans

Research  question  

 

How  have  different  types  of  private  and  public  institutions  of  higher  educa-­‐

tion  impacted  students  differentially  through  provision  of  loans?  

Variables  

As dependent variable I choose the average student loan debt over time. Another

possibility to answer hypothesis A1 is to measure the probability for being an indebted

student. As seen below the two different variables show the same tendency and almost a

doubling in average student loans in the period from 2002 to 2012.

As data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel shows the

average student loan debt owed by Californians rose from 16.600 $ in 2004 to 25.700 $

in 2012. Concurrently, the share of current and former students with student debt in-

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creased from 15 % in 2004 to 23 % in 2012 (Eaton & Stewart, 2013: 8f). It is plausible

that my findings will confirm some of the above findings.

As the primary independent variable I use the different types of institutions. The

college and university system in United States consist of three different types of institu-

tions. 1) Public community colleges and universities, 2) private non-profit institutions

and 3) private for-profit institutions. The national Institute for Education science also

divides institutions according to the length of enrollment, which also is a relevant pa-

rameter for how long students can accumulate student loans. The three types of institu-

tions above are therefore in the following analysis and in the database split between in-

stitutions with enrollment length of a) 4-year and b) 2-year. There is prior evidence to

suggest that the composition of lower income groups at private institutions is higher, and

more students at private for-profit institutions turn to loans. E.g. the College Board finds

that students here cover 37 % expenses through loans compared to an average of 26 %

(College Board, March 2013).

Type of

institution

Public,

4-year

or above

Private not-

for-profit,

4-year or

above

Private

for-profit,

4-year or

above

Public, 2-

year

Private not-

for-profit,

2-year

Private

for-

profit,

2-year

Frequency

in %

15 34 10 21 4 17

Type of institution

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Empirical  evidence  For the selected data there was 36534 unique cases distributed over 11 years

with 3.321 unique institutions of higher education. Public institutions form 36 % and

private not-for-profit institutions form 38 %. In contrast private not-for-profits only

represent 4 % of 2-year institutions, whereas public 2-year institutions and private for-

profit institutions represent respectively 21 % and 17 % of the institution population.

The institutional data do not adjust for how many students each institution has.

 

Figure  1

0   1000  2000  3000  4000  5000  6000  7000  8000  

Public,  4-­‐year  or  above  Private  not-­‐for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐year  or  

Private  for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐year  or  above  Public,  2-­‐year  

Private  not-­‐for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐year  Private  for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐year  

Total  

Average  amount  of  student  loans  received  by  full-­‐time  Qirst-­‐time  degree/certiQicate-­‐seeking  undergraduates    *  

Sector  of  Institution    

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Figure  2  

Figure 1 and 2 show students’ amount of student loan from different types of institu-

tion. Both figures indicate that private for-profit institutions have students with the

highest amount and percentage of student loans, followed by private not for profits.

Public institutions have less student loans and are the only ones with a below average

amount. Except, for 2-year private for-profit, where the average amount of student

loans also is below the average, indicating that students in private non-profit institu-

tion tend not to accumulate too much student loans in two years. This theory is rein-

forced by a clear tendency for all 2-year institutions to be below corresponding 4-year

institutions in student loans.

0   20   40   60   80  

Public,  4-­‐year  or  Private  not-­‐for-­‐

Private  for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐Public,  2-­‐year  

Private  not-­‐for-­‐Private  for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐

Total  

Percentage  of  full-­‐time  Qirst-­‐time  degree/certiQicate-­‐seeking  

undergraduates  receiving  student  loans    *  Sector  of  

Institution    

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Figure  3  

 Figure  4  

Figure 3 and 4 show a clear correlation between percentage of student with student

loans and average amount of student loans. These indicate that student is affected

equally on their tendency to collect student loans and their tendency to acquire larger

amount of student loan.

Remarkably, the percentage with student loans is constant for 2000-2003, though the

average amount increases over the whole period from 2000 to 2010. The total amount

of student loans increases significantly steep from 2008 to 2009, especially for the

total amount of student loan. Thus, the data indicate that the total amount of student

loans composes the largest variation, and the period of 2008-2009, as the financial

0   1000   2000   3000   4000   5000   6000   7000   8000  2000  

2003  

2006  

2009  

Average  amount  of  student  loans  received  by  full-­‐time  Qirst-­‐time  degree/certiQicate-­‐seeking  

undergraduates    *  Academic  Year    

0   10   20   30   40   50   60   70  2000  

2003  

2006  

2009  

Percentage  of  full-­‐time  Qirst-­‐time  degree/certiQicate-­‐seeking  

undergraduates  receiving  student  loans    *  Academic  Year    

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crisis kicks in and households and educational institutions respond, has a large impact

for the amount of student loans that today’s student population faces.

 

 

All   types  of  educational   institutions   follow   the  same   trend  whether  you  visualize  

student  loans  as  index  starting  in  2000  or  as  the  total  amount.  Private  for-­‐profit  4-­‐

year  institutions  are  the  only  type,  which  deviate  noticeable  from  the  general  pat-­‐

tern.  As   the   type  with  highest   average  amount  of   student   loan   they  differ  with  a  

slightly  larger  amount  of  student  loans  in  2000-­‐2003,  a  steep  decrease  to  the  level  

0  

2000  

4000  

6000  

8000  

10000  

12000  

1995   2000   2005   2010   2015  

Average  amount  of  student  loan  in  $    Public,  4-­‐year  or  above  

Private  not-­‐for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐year  or  above  

Private  for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐year  or  above  

Public,  2-­‐year  

Private  not-­‐for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐year  

Private  for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐year  

0  

50  

100  

150  

200  

250  

2000  

2001  

2002  

2003  

2004  

2005  

2006  

2007  

2008  

2009  

2010  

   Average  amount  of  student  loan  (index  2000)     Public,  4-­‐year  or  above  

Private  not-­‐for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐year  or  above  

Private  for-­‐prodit,  4-­‐year  or  above  

Public,  2-­‐year  

Private  not-­‐for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐year  

Private  for-­‐prodit,  2-­‐year  

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of  all  other  types  of  institutions  in  2004  and  a  steeper  increase  than  the  rest  since  

then  and  very  obvious  since  2008.  Thus,   the  private   for-­‐profit  4-­‐year  seem  to  re-­‐

spond   to   the   general   rising   trend   in   student   loans  not   by   lowering   their   relative  

amount  of  student  loans  but  instead  expanding  it.  This  is  noticeable  especially  for  

the  two  last  years  in  the  dataset,  2009  and  2010,  where  we  see  that  the  increase  in  

student  loans  is  larger  than  the  average  annual  increase.  This  trend  is  visible,  as  the  

latest  cases   for  all   types  of   institutions   tend  to  be  above  the   trendline   in   figure  5  

and  6.  

 

   

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Conclusion  

The average debt in student loans correlates unambiguously with the length of

study and different types of institutions. Private institutions and especially for-profit

institutions tend to have student with higher odds to have student loans and a higher

average for the student loan.

The results show large increase in the overall student loan absorbed by stu-

dents. One noticeable finding is that private-for-profit institutions tend to be slightly

more responsive and vary, when exogenous chock, such as the period of 2003-2004

and the financial crisis, affect student loans over time. In this manner Mettler theory

of the submerged state and Morgan & Campbell theory of the delegated state can ac-

count for, why we see a variation in student loans by different educational institutions.

This preliminary study calls for further studies of students loan in international

perspective and analysis of the actors involved and outcomes in forms of interest rates

on loans, default for student and especially, a disaggregated analysis of the composi-

tion of student. So far we can only can assume but not substantiate, how socioeco-

nomic variables affect the analysis and the IPEDS dataset. Thus, one way forward is

to link the IPEDS data to other resources, such as the U.S. Survey of Consumer Fi-

nance.

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Appendix  A  

Sector of Institution

Frequen-

cy Percent Valid Per-

cent Cumulative

Percent Valid 1 5393 14,8 14,8 14,8

2 12247 33,5 33,5 48,3 3 3454 9,5 9,5 57,7 4 7575 20,7 20,7 78,5 5 1459 4,0 4,0 82,5 6 6406 17,5 17,5 100,0 Total 36534 100,0 100,0

   

Average amount of student loans received by full-time first-time degree/certificate-

seeking undergraduates * Academic Year Average amount of student loans received by full-time first-time degree/certificate-seeking un-dergraduates Academic Year Mean N

Std. Devia-tion

2000 3333,26 3092 1704,347 2001 3460,23 3139 1817,024 2002 3689,80 3205 1974,977 2003 4017,58 3269 2429,492 2004 3954,13 3286 1918,094 2005 4209,67 3282 2023,039 2006 4500,14 3409 2443,316 2007 4793,82 3464 2605,908 2008 5530,84 3518 2535,083 2009 6691,60 3165 2726,120 2010 6696,00 3705 2571,083 Total 4662,19 36534 2557,583

Average amount of student loans received by full-time first-time degree/certificate-seeking

undergraduates * Sector of Institution Average amount of student loans received by full-time first-time degree/certificate-seeking under-graduates

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Sector of Insti-tution Mean N

Std. Devia-tion

1 3909,56 5393 1500,209 2 4937,14 12247 2237,736 3 7210,15 3454 3500,506 4 2882,42 7575 1245,056 5 4336,23 1459 2286,051 6 5575,16 6406 2736,077 Total 4662,19 36534 2557,583

Percentage of full-time first-time de-

gree/certificate-seeking undergraduates re-ceiving student loans * Academic Year

Percentage of full-time first-time de-gree/certificate-seeking undergraduates receiv-ing student loans Academic Year Mean N

Std. Devia-tion

2000 50,22 3092 27,623 2001 50,43 3139 27,765 2002 50,63 3205 27,780 2003 52,75 3269 27,850 2004 54,07 3286 28,219 2005 54,82 3282 27,535 2006 55,85 3409 27,187 2007 55,73 3464 27,637 2008 57,28 3518 27,546 2009 61,00 3165 26,831 2010 61,96 3705 26,846 Total 55,11 36534 27,784

Percentage of full-time first-time de-gree/certificate-seeking undergraduates re-ceiving student loans * Sector of Institution

Percentage of full-time first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates receiving student loans Sector of Insti-tution Mean N

Std. Devia-tion

1 47,06 5393 18,829 2 63,40 12247 20,452 3 74,94 3454 22,345

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4 22,51 7575 19,709 5 60,06 1459 24,711 6 72,79 6406 21,542 Total 55,11 36534 27,784

Report Average amount of student loans received by full-time first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates in $ Sector of Insti-tution

Academic Year Mean N

Std. Devia-tion

1 2000 2866,87 490 1015,366 2001 2966,89 493 982,162 2002 3067,33 490 935,236 2003 3175,59 491 945,381 2004 3368,72 493 968,678 2005 3683,27 496 1150,010 2006 3815,44 501 1142,004 2007 4040,43 501 1185,269 2008 4770,86 505 1289,201 2009 5633,01 414 1483,663 2010 5760,65 519 1336,418 Total 3909,56 5393 1500,209

2 2000 3720,21 1087 1715,900 2001 3673,97 1105 1495,679 2002 3889,55 1112 1527,956 2003 4263,88 1130 1948,487 2004 4353,13 1116 1721,282 2005 4587,84 1125 1785,506 2006 4816,44 1134 2203,309 2007 5062,65 1141 2153,391 2008 6019,39 1149 2131,352 2009 7057,91 997 2237,234 2010 6956,91 1151 2025,312 Total 4937,14 12247 2237,736

3 2000 4485,96 217 1784,267 2001 5372,19 237 2488,786 2002 5964,73 246 3109,786 2003 6403,31 265 3845,409 2004 5453,76 270 2815,619

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2005 6145,16 276 3094,431 2006 6764,60 344 3802,136 2007 7490,94 350 3931,571 2008 7913,78 375 3240,379 2009 9500,87 414 2497,272 2010 9727,27 460 2464,490 Total 7210,15 3454 3500,506

4 2000 2168,66 690 984,023 2001 2196,87 689 1043,926 2002 2353,46 704 984,004 2003 2501,03 690 963,116 2004 2601,61 704 938,304 2005 2685,69 693 954,314 2006 2706,48 694 920,638 2007 2808,64 714 1016,879 2008 3410,94 720 1052,261 2009 4042,68 555 1193,568 2010 4384,76 722 1283,012 Total 2882,42 7575 1245,056

5 2000 3439,25 136 2246,451 2001 3295,99 136 1903,054 2002 3591,32 139 1603,591 2003 3972,29 146 2553,334 2004 3864,68 148 1626,278 2005 3884,70 139 1695,965 2006 4347,89 127 2034,569 2007 4598,34 133 2111,171 2008 5130,95 126 2351,098 2009 6173,47 111 2405,660 2010 6135,29 118 2386,493 Total 4336,23 1459 2286,051

6 2000 4068,29 472 1779,156 2001 4392,73 479 2125,173 2002 4619,26 514 2361,552 2003 5033,89 547 3025,956 2004 4681,77 555 2184,473 2005 4937,96 553 2032,329 2006 5271,08 609 2370,107 2007 5706,03 625 2701,978 2008 6317,08 643 2730,680

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2009 7340,96 674 2870,390 2010 7411,15 735 2654,706 Total 5575,16 6406 2736,077

Total 2000 3333,26 3092 1704,347 2001 3460,23 3139 1817,024 2002 3689,80 3205 1974,977 2003 4017,58 3269 2429,492 2004 3954,13 3286 1918,094 2005 4209,67 3282 2023,039 2006 4500,14 3409 2443,316 2007 4793,82 3464 2605,908 2008 5530,84 3518 2535,083 2009 6691,60 3165 2726,120 2010 6696,00 3705 2571,083 Total 4662,19 36534 2557,583