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Student loans a worry? 10 states with the lowest student debt

Seven in 10 college seniors who graduated in 2012 took on student loans along the way, to the tune of $29,400 on average, according to a recent study from The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) But debt levels aren’t uniform across the country. Read on for the 10 states with the lowest average student debt levels, according to TICAS. Can you guess which state had the lowest?

8. District of Columbia

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A view of the U.S. Capitol building at dusk in Washington.

Average debt: $22,106

Students with debt: 56 percent

D.C. isn’t technically a state, of course, but it boasts two of the country’s low-debt private colleges in Gallaudet University and Howard University.

When it comes to debt levels, geography matters. The highest-debt states in the TICAS survey are in the Northeast and Midwest, while the lowest-debt states are mainly in the West and the South.

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