Black Students Graduate With More Debt Than Whites, Study Finds

By Andy Thomason. Black college graduates take on significantly more student debt than do their white counterparts, according to a new study by Gallup. The study, conducted with Purdue University and the Lumina Foundation, found that half of black students who graduated from 2000 to 2014 reported graduating with more than $25,000 in debt, compared with 34 percent of white graduates who reported that level of debt. More...