Students owe universities PLN 9.67 mln

The National Register of Debtors (KRD) published data which indicates that Polish students owe universities PLN 9.67 million in total. Average student debt amounts to PLN 1,883. In the last four years the number of students in Poland plummeted by 300,000, though the number of those indebted increased three-fold. Lublin has the highest average rate of student debt amongst Polish cities, amounting to PLN 3,490 per student. This is 85.3 percent more than the national average. According to the report, insufficient income, profligacy, and forgetting to renounce contracts when abandoning one's studies are among the main reasons for rising levels of debt.