| Also known as a "Career Technical" degree. Typically we have information on approximately 80% of the graduates of the career technical associate degree with about 60% being identified as being employed in Virginia at a full-time wage employment level. Even though the degree is not designed for transfer, it is not unusual for 8-10% of these graduates to transfer into bachelor programs. This has been especially true in nursing programs and programs design specifically for these graduates. Programs in this category of degree award include Business Administration, Computer and Information Sciences, Criminal Justice, various Engineering Technology subjects,Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Radiation Technology, and Veterinary Assistants. This is just a sampling of fields of study that make it possible for modern society to exist.
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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.