Annual & Aggregate Loan Limits
Both undergraduate and graduate students are limited to the amount of loans that can be borrowed each academic year and over the course of an entire program/lifetime. Undergraduate students are entitled to borrow up to $57,500. Only $23,000 of this amount can come from Subsidized Loans. At the graduate level, students are able to borrow up to $138,500 which does include any undergraduate loans previously borrowed.
Please see the chart below for a breakdown of these loan limits:
Source: https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/entranceCounseling.action?execution=e1s1