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With ballooning student debt reaching record highs(goes to new website), some colleges are beginning to step in and help students shoulder some of the loans they took out to cover their tuition. And the availability of this relief is reportedly becoming a draw for prospective students.
About 100 institutions of higher education around the U.S. have begun to offer some form of debt-sharing program tied to graduates’ earning levels, according(goes to new website)(opens in a new tab) to the Wall Street Journal. These schools, liberal arts colleges for the most part, are buying the loan-repayment assistance packages from an Indiana-based firm called LRAP Association.
The program costs the college about $1,300 per student, LRAP President Peter Samuelson told the Journal, and it works similar to an insurance policy. In short, LRAP would issue checks to…
