Mapping Student Debt

This series of interactive maps examines student debt, in its many forms, sizes and payment schemes. JFI’s Higher Education Finance research team has been especially interested in the decisions leading up to and following debt take-up. These decisions include, for example, things that affect a person’s student debt load, like demographic characteristics, location, degree pursued, school attended; we also examine how this particular type of debt shapes individuals’ repayment behavior on other debt types, status and mobility in the labor market (such as those statistics from ADP’s Workforce Vitality Report), and social decisions like when to marry and where to live. The maps allow an exploration of the geography of these many factors.