Rising student debt is doing more than harming individual borrowers, according to some professional associations and professors. It is also hurting the occupations the borrowers are entering. The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of nearly 500 programs classified as professional degrees found roughly 76 percent of professional programs left recent students with higher debt loads at graduation than earnings two years later.
Source: Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2021. Link.
All 14 professional or doctoral chiropractic programs with published federal data left students with median debt that was at least three times median earnings.”