What will be your total student loan debt to obtain your PT degree? Poll

[lee9786]

Trying to collect data. Please respond if you have already completed PT school as well. This is including undergrad. thanks for contributing..

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[lee9786]

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[_FNG_]

I'm in my third year (all clinical rotations) and have 30k so far and expect less than 40k. However, that's is with the government picking up a huge chunk of the tab since I'm a veteran.

 

[lee9786]

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[vapt]

I'll gladly vote once I find out if I'm going to the private school I've been accepted at (even paid the deposit), or if I get accepted to my top choice (public) that I've been waitlisted on. Only makes a difference by say, 40K+ undergrad loans..

 

[Kyra4dpt]

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[MJHUSKERS]

How could you have a debt over 170K from PT School??? Unless you're counting undergrad?

 

[DancerFutureDPT]

if you factor in living expenses it's definitely possible...USC is like $50k per year I think, plus cost of living in SoCal. haha.

I'm looking at $100k probably. ugh.

 

[VickyChen101]

Way too much here..

 

[FLsurferDPT]

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[vapt]

Yeah, I declined Marymount b/c- $79,800 total tuition, plus books, cost of shots, commuting (their cadaver lab isn't on site, at GWU-not that far, but still..), plus the cost of living in northern va is absolutely psychotic. Have to draw the line somewhere, epsecially when you already have undergrad loans like I do.

 

[PTstudent11]

The cost to get your DPT seems so ridiculous considering the median PT salary. I'm going to a state school where tuition is around 50k for the total program.

Since I have enough saved for about 1.5 years of living expenses, I'm hoping ill have around 65k in loans when I get out.

But even that much makes me nervous :-/

Does anyone plan on getting a part-time job to make a little cash while in school? Or is it too much work with school?

 

[lee9786]

MJHUSKER this was intended to represent the total student loan debt from both undergrad and graduate to get a sample of the final picture. Hopefully the sample gets bigger to make it more accurate.