(AP) -- Iowa's college graduates have some of the highest student loan debt in the nation. The latest report on the subject from the Project on Student Debt says 73 percent of Iowa graduates left college with some debt in 2008. Their average debt was nearly $28,200, the second-highest in the U.S.
Only graduates in the District of Columbia owed more, on average.
Among the state's public universities, Iowa State graduates tend to owe the most. Iowa State's class of 2008 owed an average of $30,700. That has many college grads worried about finding a job that will pay them enough to pay off their debt.
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