Student loan debt is now the second highest ranked consumer loan debt, next to mortgages, according to the New York Federal Reserve, with the amount of
outstanding student loan debt exceeding $ 1 trillion in March of 2012.
But as more people have invested in college, the total amount of
outstanding student loan debt exceeds auto and credit card debt.
Not exact matches
It was big news when
outstanding student loan debt surpassed credit card
debt and then later
exceeded $ 1 trillion for the first time.
Total
outstanding student loan debt is approaching 1.5 trillion dollars,
exceeding credit card
debt,
exceeding auto
loan debt.
As of September 2014,
outstanding federal
student loan debt exceeded $ 1 trillion, and about 14 percent of borrowers had defaulted on their
loans within 3 years of entering repayment, according to Education data.
Total
student loan debt outstanding exceeded total credit card
debt outstanding for the first time in June 2010.
It is believed that these issues contributed to the
student loan situation which
exceeds $ 1.4 trillion in
outstanding debt (with close to 25 % in default or delinquency).