College graduation is undoubtedly a momentous occasion and one to be celebrated. But it also marks the moment when students leave their bubble and enter the real world, facing the massive task of finding a job and starting to pay down their student loans.
But Anil Kochhar, the commencement speaker at North Carolina State University’s Wilson College of Textiles, helped ease some of that anxiety with a surprise announcement that he’d be covering the final-year education loans for every graduate of that school who had taken out loans during the 2025-2026 academic year.
