HeyJaredBeth Akers
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A Primer on Private Student Lending in the Post–Grad PLUS Era (opens the original)
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The elimination of the Grad PLUS lending program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025 set the stage for a significant restructuring of the way students finance graduate and professional education in the United States. New loan limits for students in graduate and professional programs, which went into effect on July 1, 2026, will leave some students short when it comes time to pay the tuition bill and finance living expenses. While many programs already cost less than the new limits, su
Graduate Education After Grad PLUS (opens the original)
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The 2025 Working Families Tax Cuts Act eliminated the Grad PLUS loan program, which gave graduate and professional students essentially unlimited access to federal loans. This change will reshape graduate school finance and enrollment for years to come. On September 1, AEI Senior Fellows Beth Akers and Preston Cooper convened higher education experts to examine how students, colleges, philanthropists, states, employers, and private credit markets are responding to this new policy regime. One pan
Rethinking Predatory Student Lending (opens the original)
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act ended the Grad PLUS loan program for new borrowers and replaced it with annual and aggregate limits on federal borrowing that came into effect on July 1, 2026. Students who want to borrow beyond those limits will now have to turn to private lenders. That prospect is making a lot of people nervous. Many graduate students have little experience using consumer credit, and they will likely encounter terms and conditions that seem foreign, including the possibility of d
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