Is taking out a graduate student loan worth it?

depends...obviously you would have your undergraduate, so why don't you work for awhile and save? if your income will greatly increase by having a graduate degree, then i would say go for it. you have to weigh the pros and cons of it, and how long it will take you to pay it off.

Is taking out a graduate student loan worth it?

Looks like knowsitall doesn't.

Yeah, if it's for anything except law, medicine, engineering, or an MBA (which is worthless in reality, but employers haven't figured that out yet) then don't even bother going. Report It

Is taking out a graduate student loan worth it?

ya

Is taking out a graduate student loan worth it?

depends .. if it's to do a master in crap no

but if it's law, md, engineering or mba, it might be worth it!

remember you have to pay it back!

Or what did previous poster said!

Is taking out a graduate student loan worth it?

It wasn't for me.

I had $10,000 debt to pay back and didn't even get the degree. It took ten years to pay it off.

There was one course I could not pass--financial mangement for an MBA.