sand85 - 9/16/2016 08:59

That must be some private college and easy-going student loan program if someone can run up 500k of student debt.  Perhaps medical school, which would be a small subset of the student population and have a higher probability of recovering tuition costs than most others.

The most I've seen in the news is 200k-ish, and those people seem to be the ones that didn't have a plan, borrowed school money to live on, didn't take a full load and got a 4-year degree in 7 years, and ended up with a private school degree.  I assumed those were the outliers, and that probably a lot of people at 50k of student debt or so - still a boulder to get out from underneath if you can't find a good job and discipline your spending.