Higher Ed Info for Virginia

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Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions
Associate's Degree (Bachelor Credit)
Wage Outcomes

Commonly referred to as the "college transfer" degree, the primary goal of these programs are to prepare students to transfer from a two-year college to a four-year degree program. From this perspective, these degrees are clearly successful as over 49% of graduates make a such a transfer the year following completion. Further, we know from other studies in Virginia that a number of graduates make the transfer a year later. Of the one-fifth of graduates for whom we have no information, we can comfortably assume that some proportion of those have transferred to out-of-state institutions given the number of Virginia community colleges that are near the state's borders.

Despite the intended nature of the degree, based on our wage data, the transfer degree does have economic value of its own. While the median wages of the transfer degree remain below the median of the career technical degree, they remain significantly above the first quartile of the career technical degree.

Wage Outcomes, 2022 Calendar Year

Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions, Associate's Degree (Bachelor Credit)
Earnings in 2022	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 Graduates)	$65,540	48%
15 Years (2006-07 Graduates)	$62,274	49%
10 Years (2011-12 Graduates)	$58,842	51%
8 Years (2013-14 Graduates)	$54,845	52%
5 Years (2016-17 Graduates)	$46,505	55%
3 Years (2018-19 Graduates)	$36,493	55%
18 Months (2020-21 Graduates)	$23,934	52%

Only years/programs meeting disclosure rules will be displayed to protect individual confidentiality.
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Wages in 2022
Years Post-Completion	10th Percentile	25th Percentile	Median	75th Percentile	90th Percentile
	80% of graduates with full-time wages fall within this range
20 Years (2001-02 Graduates)	$26,493	$46,381	$65,540	$98,511	$146,287
15 Years (2006-07 Graduates)	$27,205	$44,360	$62,274	$91,149	$138,545
10 Years (2011-12 Graduates)	$25,154	$40,582	$58,842	$84,365	$122,364
8 Years (2013-14 Graduates)	$23,467	$38,735	$54,845	$78,319	$111,503
5 Years (2016-17 Graduates)	$18,141	$31,912	$46,505	$64,953	$87,788
3 Years (2018-19 Graduates)	$11,728	$22,467	$36,493	$53,231	$73,630
18 Months (2020-21 Graduates)	$6,285	$12,554	$23,934	$39,798	$58,609

As reminder, the median value represents the very middle value of the sample of values (wage or debt) sorted from low to high. This value is found in the middle line of the barcharts.
The remaining values in the chart are constructed similarly, to display how wages and earnings are distributed. Thus, while the median tells us the middle wage, the values for the 25th and 75th percentiles tell us that half of the graduates with wages fall between those two values. Likewise, 80% of reported wages fall between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The length of each bar section clue to the dispersion in the data - that is, how much earnings can vary within a range a group of individuals.

Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions,
Programs Rank Ordered by Cohort Size	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage of Graduates with Student Debt
Psychology, General	$34,751	8%	$31,166	86%
Physical Sciences	$38,825	75%	$11,000	47%
Information Technology	$71,271	61%	$10,142	36%
Engineering, General	$68,997	50%	$11,000	35%
Humanities/Humanistic Studies	$38,412	54%	$9,200	33%
Biological and Physical Sciences	$39,865	55%	$10,388	39%
Business Administration and Management, General	$51,951	58%	$10,229	36%
Social Sciences, General	$38,251	59%	$10,948	44%
General Studies	$44,100	57%	$11,000	38%
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies	$37,514	62%	$7,757	24%

Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions, (Disclosable Programs)
Programs Rank Ordered by Cohort Size, 3-year Wage Outcomes	10th Percentile	25th Percentile	Median	75th Percentile	90th Percentile
	80% of graduates with full-time wages fall within this range
Psychology, General	$12,441	$24,847	$34,751	$46,416	$58,155
Physical Sciences	$15,844	$26,813	$38,825	$52,227	$67,949
Information Technology	$26,378	$48,127	$71,271	$95,443	$130,903
Engineering, General	$28,174	$50,677	$68,997	$82,327	$99,344
Humanities/Humanistic Studies	$12,200	$23,339	$38,412	$53,026	$69,200
Biological and Physical Sciences	$13,525	$24,796	$39,865	$57,726	$77,418
Business Administration and Management, General	$21,413	$35,603	$51,951	$71,032	$92,632
Social Sciences, General	$14,212	$25,161	$38,251	$51,511	$64,953
General Studies	$15,775	$27,970	$44,100	$62,610	$85,404
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies	$14,286	$24,806	$37,514	$50,935	$67,763

NOTE: Fewer than 10 programs may be displayed if they disclosure rules for providing wage outcome data are not met.
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Graduate Debt
Associate's Degree (Bachelor Credit)
Student Loans

Known Debt at Graduation of Student Borrowers
Year	% of grads	25th Percentile	Median	Estimated Payment on Median Debt	Mean	75th Percentile
2017-18	38%	$6,186	$12,368	$131	$15,907	$22,251
2018-19	37%	$5,500	$11,745	$125	$15,464	$20,989
2019-20	35%	$5,691	$11,484	$122	$15,301	$20,832
2020-21	34%	$5,691	$11,670	$124	$15,096	$20,367
2021-22	30%	$5,500	$10,888	$115	$14,807	$20,015

Note: The four-year bachelor’s degree mean and median debt levels reported on this site may differ from that reported by individual institutions. Many institutions report indebtedness based on the Common Data Set definition, which limits the indebtedness level reported to include only those students who entered the institution as first-time in college (FTIC) students. The inclusion of graduates who entered as transfer students may tend to lower the overall mean or median debt level because it does not include any debt that transfer students acquired while attending previous institutions outside Virginia and relatively few transfers from Virginia’s two-year colleges incur debt prior to transfer. Repayment estimates assume a standard 10-year repayment rate, and a 5% interest rate for undegraduate loans (for which multiple interest rates exist) and 6.8% for graduate and professional programs. Borrowers with federal loans may be eligible for Income Driven Repayment, which may result in lower payments.