Amount of student loans offered, by federal loan program U.S. 2022 | Statista

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In academic year 2021/22, around 15.44 billion U.S. dollars were distributed through the Subsidized Stafford Loan Program in the United States. In that same year, about 43.8 billion U.S. dollars were distributed through Unsubsidized Stafford Loans.

Total amount of student aid distributed in the United States, by federal loan program from 2016/2017 to 2021/2022 (in 2021 million U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22*
Perkins Loans	1,001	697	-	-	-	-
Subsidized Stafford	24,447	23,112	21,383	19,970	17,337	15,444
Unsubsidized Stafford	56,357	53,914	51,709	50,741	48,505	43,805
Parent PLUS	14,189	14,092	13,800	13,093	10,515	10,402
Grad PLUS	10,890	11,380	11,589	11,888	12,305	12,375

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October 2022

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United States

Survey time period

2016/2017 to 2021/2022

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* Preliminary data. Data for Perkins Loans unavailable from 2018/19 to 2021/22.

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