A new national report on student debt ranks Wisconsin 19th for graduates owing money on student loans. Thatâ??s up from previous years.
The Project on Student Debt based its rankings on data from the U.S. Education Department. The new Wisconsin figures show that 64-percent of graduates from both public and private, non-profit four-year colleges had debt. The average amount: $21,386. Thatâ??s an increase of more than $2,000 from the year before, when Wisconsin ranked 26th nationally for graduates with debt.