In this photo taken Wednesday April 6, 2016 students walk past the historic Thompson Hall at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. The water system serving the University is among more than two dozen in New Hampshire that have exceeded the federal lead standard at least once in the last three years. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
In this photo taken Wednesday April 6, 2016 students walk past the historic Thompson Hall at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. The water system serving the University is among more than two dozen in New Hampshire that have exceeded the federal lead standard at least once in the last three years. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) Credit: Jim Cole

For the second time in three years, graduates from New Hampshire colleges and universities have the dubious distinction of having the highest debt loads in the country.

Graduates in the class of 2015 from four-year public and private nonprofit colleges in the state carry an average debt load of  $36,101, the highest in the country, according to an annual report from the Project on Student Debt.

For the class of 2014, Delaware took the top spot.

The year before that, New Hampshire again led the nation in the amount of debt its graduates carry with them into the workplace.

Similarly, New Hampshire consistently has some of the highest in-state tuition rates for public colleges in the country, according to the college board.

These rankings don’t come in a vacuum. New Hampshire is last in the nation for per capita public support for higher education, according to the Student Impact Project.

Nationally, 68 percent of graduates had some student loan debt, with an average of $30,100 per borrower. New Hampshire graduates, on average, had 20 percent more debt.