08-15-2023, 03:29 PM
(08-15-2023, 02:00 PM)Duneranger Wrote: I think there are a wide variety of opinions on the matter. Obviously this forum skews a certain way.
It could get worse, my brothers nurse anesthesia program was 135k haha and my buddy's med school loans were 350k. Not MBAs, but crazy how high grad school costs can be. It all pays off though.
Those really aren't grad programs though. Med school is notoriously ridiculously priced. That's part of the reason our healthcare system is struggling. Fewer people are willing to take on $350K in debt nowadays. About 15 years ago I knew a woman who had $117K in med school loans who had recently become an ob/gyn. She didn't think she'd ever bee free from student loans because she works at low income clinics and she couldn't make most of her student loan payments because her income was lower than the average ob/gyn because of where she worked. Such a shame that the system is like this. It really does need a complete overhaul.