Colleges are on notice: Too many graduates with student loans are behind on payments

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Your college might be on President Donald Trump’s watch list.

The Education Department released new data on student-loan borrowers’ nonpayment rates, or the percentage of borrowers who have entered repayment since January 2020 with student loans that were more than 90 days past due when the data was collected in May 2025.

The data was a warning sign for for-profit schools: It found that 30% of borrowers who attended for-profit institutions were behind on their payments, compared with 16% of borrowers at public schools and 14% of borrowers at private schools. If nonpayment rates don’t improve by next year, schools on that list risk losing federal student aid, including student loans and Pell Grants.

Read more at AOL.

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