Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish ...
There’s growing evidence that medicine risks losing talent from poor and working-class, Black and Latino communities.
The average 2025 medical school graduate paid nearly $230,000 for their professional degree, according to data collected by the Education Data Initiative. Few — if any — students are able to pay that ...
Before you turn to private student loans, combine scholarships, service programs and employer-sponsored tuition. Plan early, identifying your total cost of attendance and calculating your funding gap ...
Federal loan caps and the elimination of Grad PLUS Loans raise concerns among healthcare and education students at the ...
By the time Lukas Kerr graduates from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine next year, he’ll be just over $200,000 in debt — not counting the interest accrued during his four years of ...
Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump's tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could ...
The "One Big, Beautiful Bill" created a new repayment plan starting in 2026 that will reduce the amount of loans some ...
Changes in federal financial aid that will become effective later this year could result in medical students, who find themselves burdened with loans to pay for their education choosing to practice ...