Are people actually going into $250k of debt just for an undergraduate degree? I wouldn't even consider that sort of debt unless it was for medical school.
What is the actual average debt on graduation? ~$27,000
That does not seem bad at all, though I suppose I am coming from the perspective of being employed immediately out of school in your field, which obviously is not the case for everyone.
Does anybody know what the average time to pay off that sort of loan is? I'm assuming that any undergraduate, regardless of degree, could expect to have that same average debt, but maybe that isn't true either.
Which is why people on HackerNews prefer to quote boundary cases like $250k