Time expected by parents to pay off child's university debt, selected countries 2015

This statistic shows the average amount of time parents in various countries believed it would take for the debt accrued from their child's university education to be repaid, as of April 2015. The country in which the average expected time for parental debt to be repaid was the highest was China, where 9.8 years was the expected average. For debts accrued by the child themselves, the longest average time parents expected it to take for repayment to occur was the United Kingdom, with an average of 12.4 years.