why is my tuition fee loan Â£0? student finance is such a ball ache

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Highly educated, deeply in debt
Debilitating college loans could make millennials the first generation in the U.S. not to do better than their parents.

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Rutgers-Camden law student Stephanie Martins, who owes nearly $100,000 in student loans. (Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel / Staff Photographer)
Rutgers-Camden law student Stephanie Martins, who owes nearly $100,000 in student loans. (Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel / Staff Photographer)
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Experts: Choose federal over private loans

To get educated these days, most students have to go into debt.

And few places have higher student debt than Pennsylvania.

Average debt per student in the commonwealth is more than $28,000, fifth-highest in the country. In New Jersey, average debt is around $23,000.

And the Philadelphia region is home to schools with some of the highest student debt anywhere.

Nationally, the average student debt is about $25,000 per person, according to 2010 figures, the latest reported by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). That's the highest level of student debt in American history, up nearly 43 percent since 1996, in today's dollars