在美国，大部分本科生或多或少都因为大学教育而背上了债务，给予科学、技术、工程和数学（所谓的“干”领域）学费优惠和贷款豁免的政治压力越来越大。
In the US, where most undergraduates bear at least part of the cost of their university education, political pressure is mounting to provide incentives like tuition discounts or loan forgiveness to students of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (the so-called STEM fields).