The average debt of college seniors who graduated in 2010 with student loans rose 5% from a year earlier to $25,250, according to a report.

That figure doesn't include data from for-profit colleges, like the University of Phoenix, whose graduates typically carry levels of debt that are even larger yet. Too few for-profit colleges provide the data necessary to be included in the study, which is the annual report of the Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit research effort funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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