Legal Disclosure    Advertiser Disclosure

Student Loans

Our Credit.com experts provide you with common sense student loan advice. Find out what to consider & how to get the best deals when shopping for loans or credit cards to finance college. Understand the impact of deferring student loans, how to manage your payments during college and post-college and how student loans can affect your credit.

student loan mistakes

Student Loans

Most Frequent Student Loan Mistakes

Article originally published September 28th, 2021. Updated December 6th, 2022. While student loan debt figures have declined slowly since they hit a high in 2010 and 2011, around 70% of those graduating with a four-year college degree do so with at least some debt related to their education. As of 2022, nearly 43 million people... Read More

| December 6, 2022

Credit Tools

View All Student Loans Posts

Student Loans
The New Way People Are Trying to Ditch Their Student Loan Debt
Thousands of student loan borrowers have applied to have their de... Read More

January 28, 2016

Student Loans
America’s Emerging Second Class: Student Loan Borrowers
There’s been a lot of talk about citizenship so far during this... Read More

January 15, 2016

can't afford your student loan payments

Student Loans
What to Do If You Just Can’t Afford Your Student Loan Payments
Q: Our youngest son just graduated from film school, and while h... Read More

January 10, 2016

REPAYE

Student Loans
Do You Qualify for the New Student Loan Repayment Plan?
At the end of October, the Department of Education finalized chan... Read More

December 21, 2015

Student Loans
9 Really Depressing Tweets About Student Loans From the Past Few Weeks
It’s the season of good cheer and all that, but there’... Read More

December 17, 2015

Student Loans
An Ode to My Mom, Who Helped Me Pay for College
A few days into December, I got a text from my mom telling me sh... Read More

December 16, 2015