Anyone screwed over with student loans?

Whether he be bot or not, the issue of student loans is one we discussed on my corridor a week ago, and how we'll leave Uni (after a standard three-year degree) with debts of only around £20,000 ($34,634), whilst people who go into Higher Education in America leave with debts much higher.

Even if it leaves you twenty grand worse off, it's a good investment into ones future, and if you go into the right career (I've been told that your job prospects after Durham are fantastic - the average starting salary for people with Comp Sci degrees at Durham is £30,000) then it's an investment you can pay off in about a decade. But when the investment is the better part of $100,000, well, is it truly worth it?