The data displays the average amount of debt that bachelor's degree recipients from public four-year colleges and universities had from the academic year 2000/01 to 2015/16. The per borrower category shows the average amount of debt amongst bachelor's degree recipients who had taken student loans. The average per all bachelor degree recipients includes those who did not take student loans. In the academic year 2015/16, students who took out student loans had an average of 27,000 USD worth of debt upon completion of their degree.
