Can't find the one I was looking for, but there's this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/student-loan-debt-median-income_n_3573683.html

In 2012, the median income for all college graduates was $46,412 while average student loan debt was $28,720, the study found.

...

In 2011, two-thirds of college students graduated with debt equivalent to about 60 percent of their annual income on average, according to a June report from Congress’ Joint Economic Committee.

Note that the median quoted is for all college graduates. Starting salary will of course be lower. So the overwhelming likelihood is that you'll graduate with debt you won't pay off for 10 years or more. Then maybe another 10 years to catch up to people who started off sooner in jobs with a lower upper limit.

So yer gonna get an edjakayshun, so as to better grok how to cya, find out how things really work (and how to do your own ROI, say--as regards filthy-lucre?)

But.. but.. ya Need that lore before ya sign-up with some of the most usurious bastards since Caligula (whose dice games could have but one winner.)
Methinks that 2014 and hence (given all the discussion now re that ROI-thing) shall see the forcing of some wholesale *Revisions of academe in its many emerging forms
along with ditto re all concepts of medical care--the real utility of Insurance cartles, if Any?--and several other hoary institutions which our parents never ever evaluated:
for themselves or for us.

* Starting with: Kill Sports as.. your main focus/cash cow, with a side gig of hiring a few star-Profs while making mostly grad students teach, for chicken-shit pay.

Everything's a wissenschafft now; er 'knowledge factory', a boffo term I called, *mine!*, on first hearing..
(But I flat-missed the necessity of following that to its reasonable conclusion; didn't know shit about Scale!)

Welcome to IWETHEY!