Higher Ed Info for Virginia

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Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions
Five-Year Bachelor's Degree
Wage Outcomes

We separate the five-year degrees from the four-year degrees for two reasons. First, they are oriented to professional practice. Second, as the term indicates, they require an additional year of study (and cost).

Wage Outcomes, 2023 Calendar Year

Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions, Five-Year Bachelor's Degree
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2002-03 Graduates)	$99,537	33%
15 Years (2007-08 Graduates)	$102,348	27%
10 Years (2012-13 Graduates)	$91,544	24%
8 Years (2014-15 Graduates)	$85,828	23%
5 Years (2017-18 Graduates)	$71,889	25%
3 Years (2019-20 Graduates)	$66,485	20%

Only years/programs meeting disclosure rules will be displayed to protect individual confidentiality.

Wages in 2023
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 (2002-03 Graduates)	$66,745	$75,993	$99,537	$139,718	$190,353
15 Years (2007-08 Graduates)	$32,469	$82,099	$102,348	$138,648	$187,153
10 Years (2012-13 Graduates)	$58,672	$75,337	$91,544	$107,580	$142,998
8 Years (2014-15 Graduates)	$48,717	$66,495	$85,828	$102,938	$149,597
5 Years (2017-18 Graduates)	$43,261	$55,500	$71,889	$79,129	$93,423
3 Years (2019-20 Graduates)	$39,487	$49,530	$66,485	$74,940	$77,058

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
Landscape Architecture	$59,395	34%	$31,000	66%
Architecture	$63,116	24%	$31,000	62%

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
Landscape Architecture	$34,977	$49,164	$59,395	$70,219	$81,318
Architecture	$37,754	$52,015	$63,116	$74,436	$84,740

NOTE: Fewer than 10 programs may be displayed if they disclosure rules for providing wage outcome data are not met.
Top 25 Programs by Enrollment
Top 25 Programs by Degrees Awarded

Graduate Debt
Five-Year Bachelor's Degree
Student Loans

Known Debt at Graduation of Student Borrowers
Year	% of grads	25th Percentile	Median	Estimated Payment on Median Debt	Mean	75th Percentile
2019-20	45%	$21,000	$31,000	$329	$38,635	$33,400
2020-21	51%	$29,000	$31,000	$329	$41,253	$52,500
2021-22	53%	$18,500	$30,958	$328	$40,382	$45,520
2022-23	51%	$25,370	$30,880	$328	$45,461	$40,880
2023-24	44%	$19,884	$30,802	$327	$41,294	$43,644

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.