Examining Graduate Lending: Access vs. Private Lending

Authors

AccessLex Institute

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

6-2019

Keywords

student financial aid, law school diversity, higher education students, financial status and behavior, access to graduate education, federal financial aid policy, federal student loans, Higher Education Act (HEA), private student loans, race, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), lending discrimination

Abstract

This report, the second of our two-part series on graduate lending, uses federal data to show, as one example, that black borrowers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities would likely be severely harmed by a move to significantly limit or outright eliminate federal lending to graduate and professional students.