If over 30 % of
graduates from any school default on their loans within three years after starting the repayment period, that school can be thrown out of federal loan programs.
Not exact matches
Though there's no comprehensive data that show how often
schools are taking
graduates to court,
defaults grew by 20 %
from 2006 to 2011, up to $ 964 million.
Two other key points
from the Brookings analysis: 1) for - profit
schools remain the primary driver of high student loan
defaults, and 2) black college
graduates default at five times the rate of white college
graduates, due to persistent unemployment, higher use of for - profit colleges and lower parental income and assets.
Though there's no comprehensive data that show how often
schools are taking
graduates to court,
defaults grew by 20 %
from 2006 to 2011, up to $ 964 million.
The Department of Education tries to prevent students
from falling into the
default category by postponing the repayment requirement through deferments and since the repayment requirement begins only when students are out of
school, they enroll in
graduate or additional undergraduate programs.