{"id":3093,"date":"2011-11-09T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2011-11-10T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:32:30","slug":"stateimpacts-delving-behind-the-student-debt-numbers-for-dartmouth-and-unh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/09\/stateimpacts-delving-behind-the-student-debt-numbers-for-dartmouth-and-unh\/","title":{"rendered":"StateImpact&#8217;s Delving Behind The Student Debt Numbers For Dartmouth And UNH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3095\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"According to one report, students attending UNH-Durham might find themselves taking on more debt than their peers at Dartmouth.  But why?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4864672208_0f00671146.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3095\" title=\"Thompson Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4864672208_0f00671146-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4864672208_0f00671146-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4864672208_0f00671146-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4864672208_0f00671146-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4864672208_0f00671146.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Jimmy Emerson \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to one report, students attending UNH-Durham might find themselves taking on more debt than their peers at Dartmouth. But why?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, we posted a piece comparing the student debt load of New Hampshire residents to the rest of the country.\u00a0 (You can read it <a title=\"Student Debt Reaches Record Levels\u2013And NH Leads The Pack\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/08\/student-debt-reaches-record-levels-and-nh-leads-the-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)\u00a0 But one set of figures reported by the Project on Student Debt&#8211;and <a title=\"NH students rise to top of national debt list\" href=\"http:\/\/unionleader.com\/article\/20111108\/NEWS04\/711089979\" target=\"_blank\">reported by the <\/a><em><a title=\"NH students rise to top of national debt list\" href=\"http:\/\/unionleader.com\/article\/20111108\/NEWS04\/711089979\" target=\"_blank\">Union-Leader<\/a> <\/em>continues to stand out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average Class of 2010 student debt nationally:\u00a0 $25,250<\/li>\n<li>Average Class of 2010 student debt in New Hampshire:\u00a0 $31,048<\/li>\n<li>Average Class of 2010 student debt for UNH-Durham: $32,320<\/li>\n<li>Average Class of 2010 student debt for Dartmouth College: $18,700<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How in the <em>world<\/em> was it possible for an average student in 2010 to go to an Ivy League institution and take on 42 percent less debt than his or her state school peers?\u00a0 And how is it that the average student graduating Dartmouth last year even managed to leave with less student debt than the average American student?<\/p>\n<p>Curiouser still, the<em> Union-Leader <\/em>also reported that while 76 percent of the <a title=\"University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/unh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of New Hampshire<\/a>-Durham&#8217;s Class of 2010 took out student loans, only about half of <a title=\"Dartmouth College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth&#8217;s<\/a> students took on student debt.\u00a0 Of course, it would be easy to think that that could simply be a difference in the types of students who attend these schools.\u00a0 Maybe Dartmouth has many more students coming from wealthier families who can pay their tab upfront?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&#8230;but <em>half <\/em>of all Dartmouth students have families paying their way?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a <em>lot <\/em>of wealth, even for an elite school.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that something else is going on with these figures.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve got some calls out to Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire to try to get to the factors behind the numbers.\u00a0 And we&#8217;ll be sure to share what I find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we posted a piece comparing the student debt load of New Hampshire residents to the rest of the country.\u00a0 (You can read it here.)\u00a0 But one set of figures reported by the Project on Student Debt&#8211;and reported by the Union-Leader continues to stand out: Average Class of 2010 student debt nationally:\u00a0 $25,250 Average Class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[535,493,124,512],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}