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    Best Ways to Pay for Grad School

    by Thomas H. Blanton, Reporter, Kiplinger's Personal Finance May 09, 2018 2 minutes

    Probably the worst Christmas present I ever got was a bill for $31,000 in student loans from Uncle Sam in December 2015. A few weeks earlier, I'd received my master's in mass communications.

    I'll be honest: My decision to pursue an advanced degree was made more out of fear than foresight. I was placing my bets on a career in an industry not). During my final semester as an undergraduate, I worried that a bachelor's in journalism wasn't going to cut it in the real world, so I made what seemed like a safe bet: incur debt now for a better future later.

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