<p>If you are in the top quarter of engineering students at Purdue, then you most likely have about a 3.2 GPA if not higher. My friends who graduated from Purdue engineering with those kinds of GPAs are all making around 70-80K mostly as consultants. With that kind of money and living on the road with housing/travel/food paid for, they have paid off 100K worth of debt in about 4 years (granted they are very aggressive savers). Also, Purdue has a Coop program where you take 5 years and intern for a semester and get paid/earn experience so that can also help. But yeah, Purdue engineering is among the top 10 and if you do well you will definitely get a high paying job so 100K should be easy to pay off if you tackle it aggressively.</p>