Numbers of the Day

$25,250: The average debt load of a US college student in 2010, a new record.

Over $31,000: The average debt load of graduates of Alabama A&M, a public, historically black university.

$8,000: The average debt load of graduates of Williams College, a selective, private college where approximately 10% of students are African-American.

Read the whole story at NPR.

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