Geoscience Currents 22: Student Debt by Degree Field compares the student debt load of geoscience bachelor degree recipients and master’s degree recipients with other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree recipients. Geoscience bachelor’s degree recipients tend to have higher student debt load when compared to other STEM degree fields. The majority (55%) of geoscience bachelor degree recipients have a debt-load in excess of $10,000. Similarly, in comparison to other STEM fields, geoscience master’s degree recipients tend to have higher amounts of debt.
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