Student loan debt has exceeded the nation's credit card debt, according to the Federal Reserve's G.19 Consumer Credit June report. and nbsp; Student debt has reached more than $830 billion and mdash; $665 billion from federal student loans an...

Americans now owe more in student loan debt than they do for all credit card debt, according to a recent report published by the financial aid information website FinAid.org. Host Michel Martin talks to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the research, about why student loan debt has hit a record high

The paper's Kaplan education unit may be battered by a crackdown on loan repayment rules

The federal government rushed through a change in student loan funding to ensure 50,000 post-secondary students would have enough money to go to school this fall

'Student loans,' Burger King, Piers Morgan, 'Google search event,' ESTA and NCSECU are the trending topics on Google and Yahoo.

Tempestt Hazel graduated from Columbia College with $25,000 in student loans and a keen awareness that she was going to need to start paying them off if she didn't head straight to graduate school. So the Bronzeville resident put herself on Lilyslist.com, an online student loan registry.

In midtown Manhattan two years ago, the billboard-size clock that keeps track of the U.S. national debt ran out of digits when the figure ballooned to $10 trillion.

Matthew Kapral, a student at Education Management Corp.’s Art Institute of Pittsburgh, was walking to class in July when a school representative sat him in front of a computer and coached him on a letter opposing limits on federal student aid to for-profit colleges.

Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of finaid.org, one of the best sites for college financial aid information, has posted a "Student Loan Debt Clock" that keeps a running tally of federal and private student loans. The last time I checked, the total was more than $848 billion.

Hedge-fund manager Steven Eisman is betting against for-profit college provider Strayer Education Inc. because the company’s federal student loan repayment rate is much lower than it claims.