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All Institutions, Biological and Physical Sciences
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$72,406	47%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$72,071	45%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$63,108	52%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$56,276	49%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$47,713	55%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$35,060	55%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$20,044	52%

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

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Biological and Physical Sciences, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Blue Ridge Community College	$16,812	57%	$8,529	32%
J Sargeant Reynolds Community College	$18,044	60%	$11,876	39%
Northern Virginia Community College	$14,615	46%	$10,250	37%
Piedmont Virginia Community College	$15,882	48%	$10,889	39%
Tidewater Community College	$18,459	55%	$11,194	43%
Virginia Peninsula Community College	$15,852	52%	$10,097	42%
Virginia Western Community College	$15,270	62%	$7,500	35%