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All Institutions, English Language and Literature, General
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$68,647	34%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$64,645	33%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$58,662	40%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$55,234	40%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$50,561	46%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$48,181	46%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$33,199	46%

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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English Language and Literature, General, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Bridgewater College	$28,886	61%	$27,000	78%
Christopher Newport University	$27,986	54%	$26,720	57%
George Mason University	$32,448	60%	$24,810	61%
Hampden-Sydney College	$45,092	45%	$26,720	66%
Hollins University	$24,301	40%	$29,750	77%
James Madison University	$26,192	50%	$23,209	52%
Longwood University	$31,022	69%	$27,000	75%
Mary Baldwin University	$22,396	62%	$31,750	76%
Norfolk State University	$31,888	59%	$31,644	98%
Old Dominion University	$33,172	62%	$24,754	76%
Radford University	$26,781	63%	$26,637	73%
Randolph-Macon College	$33,196	59%	$27,233	71%
Roanoke College	$24,472	44%	$27,000	76%
Shenandoah University	$28,249	64%	$35,822	71%
University of Lynchburg	$25,292	52%	$32,375	77%
University of Mary Washington	$24,856	61%	$25,999	59%
University of Virginia	$33,460	34%	$19,574	38%
University of Virginia's College at Wise	$29,365	65%	$19,299	60%
Virginia Commonwealth University	$25,857	62%	$26,991	65%
Virginia Military Institute	$42,370	34%	$26,298	64%
Virginia State University	$40,132	57%	$37,195	81%
Virginia Tech	$27,659	45%	$27,000	54%
Virginia Wesleyan University	$25,990	48%	$31,142	83%
William & Mary	$27,192	30%	$21,546	38%