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The history of student loans goes back to the Middle Ages

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imageA early chest, belonging to Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of The Bodleian Library at Oxford Unviersity.mira66, CC BY-NC-SA

In 1473, Alexander Hardynge, who had finished his bachelor’s degree at Oxford nearly two years previous, borrowed money through an educational loan service. The loan came with a one year repayment deadline.

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