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r/StudentLoans

/r/StudentLoans: Reddit's hub for advice, articles, and discussion about educational loans. /r/StudentLoans: Reddit's hub for advice, articles, and general discussion about getting and repaying student loans. Founded 2010 · 712.1K members · text posts only

712.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.5K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
712.3Kmembers
15.5Kbest post
12.8Kmost comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

89% 11%
Text 89% Question 11%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News/Politics 18 Rant/Complaint 11 Success/Celebration 8 Advice 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Well - it's over. I have to admit I was getting cautiously optimistic - but the SCOTUS has killed the Biden/Harris debt relief. Here's some practical…

↑ 15.5K 💬 6.1K text 2023

Megathread: Biden Forgiveness Announcement

↑ 13.9K 💬 12.8K text 2022

GOP proposes 1% student loan interest. Please contact Representatives.

↑ 7.5K 💬 771 text 2024

Supreme Court, Republicans to blame for lack of debt forgiveness, students say in poll

↑ 5.1K 💬 1.1K text 2023

Don't let people gaslight you about your student loans.

↑ 4.6K 💬 417 text 2025

The New Budget Bill Ends Subsidized Student Loans and Push Forgiveness to 30 Years

↑ 4.1K 💬 759 text 2025

Austin attorney sues Department of Education after seeing her student loan payments skyrocket

↑ 3.5K 💬 24 text 2025

ITS UPP!!! BETA RELEASE!!!

↑ 3K 💬 1.2K text 2022

CONGRESSMAN LAWLER INTRODUCES BIPARTISAN BILL LOWERING INTEREST RATE ON ALL FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS TO 1%

↑ 3K 💬 269 text 2024

I got the IDR recount email: my loans will be forgiven!

↑ 2.9K 💬 1.1K text 2023

Communities its size

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r/StudentLoans, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/StudentLoans?
r/StudentLoans ("/r/StudentLoans: Reddit's hub for advice, articles, and discussion about educational loans") describes itself this way: /r/StudentLoans: Reddit's hub for advice, articles, and general discussion about getting and repaying student loans. It was founded in 2010 and has 712.1K members.
How many members does r/StudentLoans have?
r/StudentLoans has about 712.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.5K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/StudentLoans?
"Well - it's over. I have to admit I was getting cautiously optimistic - but the SCOTUS has killed the Biden/Harris debt relief. Here's some " reached 15.5K upvotes and 6.1K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/StudentLoans.
What subreddits are similar to r/StudentLoans?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/StudentLoans?
Of the posts we hold, 89% are text posts and 11% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/StudentLoans?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 14:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/StudentLoans?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/StudentLoans has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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