student debt
Money that students owe after borrowing to pay for their education.
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IELTS use
Use this phrase when discussing university fees, loans, higher education policy, financial pressure, and whether education should be free.
Examples
- Student debt can affect young people's ability to buy a home or start a family.
- Reducing tuition fees would help graduates avoid excessive student debt.
Collocations
- accumulate student debt
- Many young people accumulate student debt before starting their careers.
- reduce student debt
- Government grants can reduce student debt.
Word family
- Noun
- debt
- Verb
- owe
- Adjective
- indebted
- Adverb
- financially
Paraphrases
- education-related debt: A more formal explanatory alternative.
- university loan burden: Useful when focusing on the pressure caused by loans.
Common mistakes
- students debts to student debt. Student debt is commonly used as an uncountable noun phrase.