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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?

7. Tennessee

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The freshmen class at Vanderbilt University spell out 2017, their graduation year, for a photo on the campus in August in Nashville, Tenn.

Average debt: $21,775

Students with debt: 58 percent

King College in Bristol, Tenn., is one of the lowest-debt private schools in the United States. According to TICAS, most of the low-debt private and public colleges in the survey enroll a high proportion of low-income students, which is considered an important quality in terms of accessibility. 

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