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The report was released by LendEDU, an online student loan and student loan refinance company. LendEDUs first Student Loan Debt By School By State Report was created using licensed financial aid data that is provided by the institutions.
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Based on the Class of 2015, only 13 percent of 窪做惇蹋厙 graduates incurred student debt, according to the LendEDU report, and the average debt per borrower was $15,713. Those numbers are significantly less than the state averages: 65 percent of students graduate with debt at an average of $29,589 per borrower.
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