How Much Debt Is Too Much?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:06:37 +0000

Without knowing specific schools, majors, career goals, and amount of debt, it is not possible to definitively answer the question without a lot of “it depends”.

In the Ohio State versus Yale comparison, the answer may be different if you are talking about a goal of working as an engineer and taking $80,000 extra debt for Yale, versus a goal of working as an investment banker and taking $30,000 extra debt for Yale.