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Program Details
Virginia Tech
Business Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences (19.0201)
Bachelor's Degree

Enrollment, Awards, Wages, Debt, and Other Outcomes

Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management

Program Status: Active/Approved to Enroll Students and Confer Degrees

Degree Title: BS

2010 CIP Code: 190201

	Credit Hours	Program Offered
On-Campus:	Yes	Yes
Off-Campus:	Yes	No

Date Progam Approved to Confer Degrees: 01/2005

Date of Last Council Action (mm/yyyy) 10/2003

Enrollments and Awards
Academic Year	Fall Headcount	Annual FTE	Degrees
2018-19	273	296	99
2019-20	266	296	90
2020-21	269	284	89
2021-22	260	275	85
2022-23	257	280	87

Average time-to-completion in years	Average credits-to-completion	Average monthly earnings six months after graduation
4.29	131	$ 3,854

Average time-to-completion in years (transfer students)	Average credits-to-completion (transfer students)
3.14	92

The table to the right provides the degree award history of each the last five years, disaggregated by state residency. This breakout may may help explain why a relatively low percentage of program completers may appear to be working in Virginia.

Program Graduates by Domicile
Year	In-State	Out-of-State	Total
2018-19	68	31	99
2019-20	67	23	90
2020-21	60	29	89
2021-22	68	17	85
2022-23	64	23	87
Five Year Summary	327	123	450

Distribution by Gender and Race/Ethnicity within Five-year Totals,

Year	Foreign/ International	African Am. or Black (NH)	Am. Indian/ Native Am. (NH)	Asian/ Pacific Islander (NH)	Hispanic	White, Caucasian Am. (NH)	Multi-Race (NH)	Unknown/ Unreported (NH)	Total
Sum of the Last 5 Years	22	55	2	18	450	22	301	9	450

Wages Earned in 2020

The table below shows the wage data for the select program and places it in the context of all wages at the same degree level of this institution by graduates with at least three (3) quarters of employment.

Post-Completion Wage Outcomes, Earnings in 2022
Graduation Year	Grads (n)	Grads w/Wages (n)	25th Percentile	Median Wage	75th Percentile
2011-12 (10 years)	634	35%	$56,760	$81,275	$106,279
2013-14 (8 years)	501	35%	$48,646	$70,463	$97,779
2016-17 (5 years)	416	35%	$43,100	$62,076	$79,544
2018-19 (3 years)	403	38%	$37,431	$52,388	$70,185
2020-21 (18 months)	423	41%	$30,793	$45,204	$59,674

Student Debt of Graduates

Number of Borrowers and Known Debt at Graduation
	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2013-14 to 2017-18	213	54.5%	$ 17,952	$ 27,000	$ 30,008	$ 35,200
2014-15 to 2018-19	221	56.4%	$ 18,500	$ 27,000	$ 30,139	$ 35,900
2015-16 to 2019-20	216	53.9%	$ 16,471	$ 27,000	$ 29,710	$ 35,450
2016-17 to 2020-21	214	51.8%	$ 16,500	$ 26,840	$ 31,375	$ 36,000
2017-18 to 2021-22	229	53.4%	$ 15,857	$ 26,680	$ 31,229	$ 38,260

Note: Student borrowing at graduation, excludes PLUS loans, in five-year rollups. Includes all known institutionally-processed borrowing occuring at all public and nonprofit institutions in Virginia. Debt accrued outside Virginia in prior postsecondary activity is not available.

Number of Borrowers and Known Debt at Graduation, Including Parent-PLUS and Grad-PLUS
	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2013-14 to 2017-18	214	54.7%	$ 21,060	$ 29,386	$ 41,529	$ 50,000
2014-15 to 2018-19	222	56.6%	$ 21,358	$ 31,000	$ 45,509	$ 60,000
2015-16 to 2019-20	217	54.1%	$ 20,000	$ 29,115	$ 45,326	$ 61,000
2016-17 to 2020-21	215	52.1%	$ 19,576	$ 29,688	$ 45,390	$ 62,230
2017-18 to 2021-22	230	53.6%	$ 19,500	$ 29,402	$ 45,392	$ 63,900

More Details on Enrollment History.

More Details on Degree Awards History.