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Ohio Student Debt Increases

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,

Associated Press

Published October 18, 2012 at 10:57 AM EDT

A report by the Project on Student Debt shows Ohio students who borrowed for college and earned a bachelor's degree last year graduated with an average of nearly 29-thousand dollars in debt. That is the seventh highest in the nation and a 3.5-percent increase over 2010. Ohio's average is nearly 8 percent higher than the national average. 68 percent of the state's graduates left school with at least some student-loan debt last year.