Average student debt of students at top U.S. universities 2024

Average student debt of students at the top 20 U.S. universities in 2024

University (rank)Average student debt in U.S. dollars
Northwestern University (6) 36,425
University of Notre Dame (18) 32,014
Brown University (13) 29,086
University of Pennsylvania (10) 28,497
Duke University (6) 27,788
Cornell University (11) 27,244
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2) 26,522
University of Chicago (11) 25,740
Johns Hopkins University (6) 24,228
Dartmouth College (15) 24,135
Vanderbilt University (18) 23,887
Stanford University (4) 21,372
Rice University (18) 18,939
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September 2024

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United States

Survey time period

Fall 2023*

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*The ranking of universities can be found here. Average total indebtedness taken from the 2023 bachelor's degree graduating class.
Data for Columbia University was not available.

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