Financing Your DPT

[TopShelf85]

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How do you intend to finance your ever-increasingly more expensive DPT degree? I am not sure how I would go about doing it and where to secure the loans without too much interest payments down the road.

I am giving a shout-out here to anyone who has a trust fund who covers this because by the time you are done you will be flush with cash.

 

[Outdoors]

Too many threads about this...

pick cheap school, take grad plus loans=cover tuition, work summer months to make living expenses (live very inexpensively). Grad with ~65k in debt, live cheap for 3 years=debt free

Not many have the self control to pull it off

 

[nicolej5]

pick cheap school, take grad plus loans=cover tuition, work summer months to make living expenses live very inexpensively. Grad with ~65k in debt, live cheap for 3 years=debt free

Not many have the self control to pull it off

that sounds fine and dandy, but many schools work on the quarter system, so there are no months long summer vacations for us. Plus, not every student had the ability to pick and choose what school to attend. Take government loans, they usually have the lowest rates. Never finance with private loans. Every school (that I've researched) offers some sort of scholarship. Work study is an option to make some extra cash. School is stressful enough, so you won't catch me eating ramen to survive. I'm living how I think is comfortable and for me it's been great to have cable as a luxury and break from studies. That was off topic but whatever haha.

 

[okramango]

I'm doing pretty much what Outdoors said: going to the lowest cost program that I could find (about 30k total for in-state), and living simply while I'm in school. I'm also lucky to have a spouse who is working to cover our basic living expenses. I'm hoping to have all loans paid off within a few years of graduation.