Studies show more than 70 percent of all students graduating from four-year colleges had student loan debt in 2012.

That figure represents 1.3 million students graduating with debt, a number that’s up from 1.1 million in 2008 and 0.9 million in 2004.

Marco LeRoc is a former international student from the Togolese Republic (Togo) who found himself more than $30,000 in student loan debt after his freshman year at the University of Nebraska Omaha.

LeRoc managed to successfully navigate the rough the road out of college debt, and now he is also showing others how they can too with his new book Screw College Debt.