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Student Loan Debt Continuing to Climb

In recent years, the national average cost of tuition has risen to over $20,000 for four-year public institutions.  This may also explain why the average student loan debt for a graduating student from a school like Clemson is around $30,000.

Mike Switzer interviews Josh Harris with the College of Business at Clemson University.

  

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.