Professional degrees like dentistry and veterinary medicine are leaving many students with immense college debt, threatening the outlook for fields that provide essential public services, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data.

The culprits span graduate programs at big state schools, for-profit colleges and some of the U.S.’s elite private universities.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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