DAYTON, Ohio — An Ohio college student is now working to be a doctor after he just found out he’s debt-free. He’s now one of thousands whose student debt was canceled.

When Jordan Young first heard his voicemail, he kept on walking. 

“I’m like there’s no way this is real,” said Young. 

He was skeptical, but he knew he owed more than $20,000 to Morehouse College in Atlanta.

He left the historically Black college a year ago and came back home to Dayton partly because of the cost.

“No matter how much I didn’t want it to weigh on my mind, it was still weighing on my mind and I knew I couldn’t get my official transcripts until I had that balance paid off,” said Young.

Without his transcripts, he said getting a degree anywhere else would be put on hold, but there was something about that voicemail that made him call back. He was told his debt was wiped clean.

“I checked my student account, I saw that it said zero, and I knew…and I was like, ok well, I don’t have to worry about this anymore,” said Young. 

He found out he was one of almost 3,000 former Morehouse students whose debt was canceled.

The debt was owed directly to the school, not through any federal loans. The college recently announced $10 million in debt was erased when they partnered with the Debt Collective.

The company sold the debt to the Rolling Jubilee, and they canceled it officially making Young debt-free.

“It just hit me, that it just kind of set in and I was just grateful,” said Young.

He’s going to school now at Sinclair College in Dayton, studying psychology on a full-ride scholarship. He hopes to help people who faced the challenges he did in the past.

“I dealt with a lot mentally and emotionally during my time there after being virtual for the whole year,” said Young.

He plans to continue his education and become a doctor to do it.

“The decision doesn’t make the most logical sense when you think about it, but that’s what faith is all about,” said Young.