The American Student Loan System Is Not Muslim-Friendly
In the coming days, students across America are poised to graduate from high school, and many have already jumped through hoops to figure out how to pay for college. Whether it’s close to home or on the opposite coast, one nearly universal problem facing young people hungry for the upward mobility promised by a degree is the high cost of tuition and other expenses.
Of course, there’s a uniquely American way around all of that: interest-bearing student loans. But even as student debt has surged to $1.5 trillion nationally and the larger system of how higher education is funded faces unprecedented scrutiny, the choice of whether to take on debt at all is more complicated for some than others.
