https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/2021-12/m1slc_21.pdf
In the instructions, it says this is the original amount of your loans. So if you took out $2,000 in 2010, $2,500 in 2011, and $3,000 in 2012, you'd enter $5000. But if you only ever took out a $2,000 student loan and somehow, magically, paid for college with other means, you'd enter $2,000.
