Amount of student loan debt outstanding, by type U.S. 2023
outstanding student loan debt in the United States totaled over 1.7 trillion U.S. dollars.
Direct combined loans, also called Stafford loans, accounted for 856 billion U.S. dollars of outstanding student loan debt in the United States in 2023. Stafford loans are a type of federal student loans offered to eligible university students at a lower interest rate than private loans. In the third quarter of 2023,