Supporting data for "Navigating College Life: A Qualitative Investigation of Student Loan Borrowers in China"

Required qualitative dataset for Ph.D. thesis submission: · The dataset consists of forty-one respondents who participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews. · Respondents were recruited from eight educational institutions: three 4-year public universities, two 3-year public technical colleges, two 4-year private colleges (independent second-tier schools), and one 3-year private vocational college. · In detail, twenty-two respondents were female, and four were from minority ethnic groups. · All interviews were audio-recorded and later transcribed. · Interviews were conducted in Chinese, and Word files ( .docx) transcripts were imported into NVivo 11 Plus (Windows) to create nodes (two-layer coding), memos, and thematic maps in NVivo format through reflexive thematic analysis.