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    #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    From the new 2011 US News & World Report "America's Best Colleges" rankings

    Best Colleges: Least Debt, Class of 2009: National Universities


    Average total indebtedness of 2009 graduating class: Percent of 2009 graduating class who have borrowed

    1. Princeton University Princeton, NJ $5,667 22.0%
    2. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA $8,218 42.0%
    3. Yale University New Haven, CT $10,717 31.0%
    4. Brigham Young University--Provo Provo, UT $10,730 24.0%
    5. Harvard University Cambridge, MA $10,871 38.0%
    6. Howard University Washington, DC $12,000 81.0%7.
    7. Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA $12,408 51.3%

    *Tech was ranked 10th in this category last year.


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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Impressive company....

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Its either schools with huge endowments or schools with alot of giveaways.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by olddog75 View Post
    Its either schools with huge endowments or schools with alot of giveaways.
    This means that Tech offers a very affordable, quality education.

    - 48.7% of Tech students do NOT take out loans.

    - Of the 51.3% of Tech students who do take out loans, they are only about $12,000 in debt, and they can pay that back very quickly without interest mounting.

    This ranking should be very important to moms and dads when they are helping to decide where to send their child to school.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg06 View Post
    This means that Tech offers a very affordable, quality education.

    - 48.7% of Tech students do NOT take out loans.

    - Of the 51.3% of Tech students who do take out loans, they are only about $12,000 in debt, and they can pay that back very quickly without interest mounting.

    This ranking should be very important to moms and dads when they are helping to decide where to send their child to school.
    Add to this the highest mid-career salary of any Louisiana school and you see just how smart it is to get a Tech education.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by BRDawg81 View Post
    Add to this the highest mid-career salary of any Louisiana school and you see just how smart it is to get a Tech education.
    source?

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by arkansasbob View Post
    source?
    It was discussed in another thread:

    http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79347

    This salary ranking along with low debt for recent grads, looks pretty good.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by StrayDawg View Post
    It was discussed in another thread:

    http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79347

    This salary ranking along with low debt for recent grads, looks pretty good.
    thanks!
    looks very good indeed. dare i say, "elite"?

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    That's very impressive given that most of those schools are small schools with huge endowments--and schools that generally have a lot of wealthy students. I'm a bit surprised to see BYU up there. Possibly their endowment is bigger than I realized.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by TechDawgMc View Post
    That's very impressive given that most of those schools are small schools with huge endowments--and schools that generally have a lot of wealthy students. I'm a bit surprised to see BYU up there. Possibly their endowment is bigger than I realized.
    Most of their students are Mormons, and Mormons that tithe get a big break on tuition. I think tithing helps fund BYU, too.
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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by TechDawgMc View Post
    Possibly their endowment is bigger than I realized.
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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by Guisslapp View Post
    Most of their students are Mormons, and Mormons that tithe get a big break on tuition. I think tithing helps fund BYU, too.
    Tithing does fund BYU, that is why a BYU network could work, every morman out there would watch every game, cause they contribute to it. They are all BYU alums.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    Quote Originally Posted by TechDawgMc View Post
    That's very impressive given that most of those schools are small schools with huge endowments--and schools that generally have a lot of wealthy students. I'm a bit surprised to see BYU up there. Possibly their endowment is bigger than I realized.
    BYU's tuition is less than Tech's. BYU has to have the lowest tuition of all 260 national universities. Their endowment is also 12x Tech's.

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    Re: #7 Best National University with Least Student Debt

    The Shreveport Times picked up the story.
    http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/...ID=20108210330


    They also included the salary info:

    Louisiana Tech also ranked as the top public university in the state for mid-career median pay for graduates, according to the newly-released 2010-11 College Salary Report from PayScale.com. In addition to its top spot in Louisiana, Tech was ranked among the top 30 of all universities in the southern United States in mid-career median pay for graduates.

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