The Press Association reported on our Degrees of Debt research

English graduates are more in debt than their American, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand counterparts by the time they leave university, a report has found.

Those who graduated from English universities last year – under the £9,000 fees regime – owe an average of more than £44,000, data from the Sutton Trust shows.

American graduates owe between 29,000 US dollars (£20,500) – for students at public or private non-profit universities, and 32,600 US dollars (£29,000) – for those at private for-profit universities.

Called Degrees Of Debt, the report also highlights the growing complexity of arrangements in the UK nations, with different fee levels in Scotland for those from the rest of the UK.

Read the full PA report at BT.Com here. This report was used on hundreds of local and national media sites and in print in a number of regional papers.