• Director(s):

    CIBIEN (LAURENT)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, VOL DE NUIT

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2012

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, INTERNET

In autumn 2011, the US Federal Reserve sent shockwaves through the country: it revealed that student loan debt outstanding in the US had exceeded 1,000 billion dollars.

This figure has doubled in less than 10 years. Since then, the issue of the rising cost of higher education in the US has become part of the presidential election.
ARTE Reportage made enquiries in Phoenix, Arizona, nicknamed "the Silicon Valley of Higher Education", to reveal the roots of what some consider will be the next credit bubble, and one that will be even more devastating that the subprime crisis.