Percentage of U.S. students with student loans by institution type 2017/18

This statistic shows the share of students attending various types of 2-year and 4-year institutions who had student loans in the United States as of the 2017/18 academic year. In the academic year 2017/18, 46 percent of students at public 4-year institutions had student loans compared to 65 percent at private for-profit 4-year institutions in the United States.