In most cases, the government will not excuse your loans, even if some issues with the college made it difficult to complete or use the degree you signed up for. There are highly publicized cases where a school flagrantly violated the law, and the federal government canceled student loan debt for its students. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Plus, if you took out private education loans, the federal government cannot cancel the debt–you would have to work it out with the lender.