Examining Grad PLUS: Value and Cost

Authors

AccessLex Institute

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

4-2019

Keywords

higher education students, financial status and behavior, access to graduate education, Bennett hypothesis, Grad PLUS loans, federal financial aid policy, federal student loans, Higher Education Act (HEA), tuition, student loan forgiveness

Abstract

This report, the first in a two-part series, uses federal data to show that the primary criticisms of the Grad PLUS program—rising institutional education costs and potential cost to the federal government—are either nonexistent or massively overblown.