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All Institutions, Biology/Biological Sciences, General
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$96,928	32%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$92,496	35%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$79,850	37%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$70,576	38%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$57,082	39%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$42,600	37%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$30,879	47%

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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Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Bridgewater College	$27,283	49%	$27,000	76%
Christopher Newport University	$25,218	56%	$26,720	61%
Eastern Mennonite University	$24,774	40%	$30,825	64%
Emory & Henry College	$20,868	42%	$27,000	85%
George Mason University	$29,541	50%	$22,811	60%
Hampden-Sydney College	$33,064	37%	$26,720	71%
Hollins University	$25,707	46%	$27,000	74%
James Madison University	$27,224	49%	$25,249	54%
Longwood University	$28,976	65%	$27,000	71%
Mary Baldwin University	$22,999	36%	$26,405	74%
Marymount University	$30,371	34%	$30,500	71%
Norfolk State University	$28,748	48%	$30,929	82%
Old Dominion University	$25,743	56%	$23,000	68%
Radford University	$28,753	60%	$26,720	79%
Randolph College	$25,391	41%	$27,000	72%
Randolph-Macon College	$29,217	61%	$27,746	73%
Roanoke College	$31,147	35%	$28,000	78%
Shenandoah University	$25,514	44%	$26,718	75%
University of Lynchburg	$24,549	51%	$28,500	80%
University of Mary Washington	$25,437	53%	$25,268	56%
University of Virginia	$22,297	37%	$21,660	39%
Virginia Commonwealth University	$25,873	53%	$27,000	63%
Virginia State University	$27,799	44%	$30,616	80%
Virginia Tech	$22,874	43%	$25,182	51%
Virginia Union University	$26,331	53%	$30,678	95%
Virginia Wesleyan University	$22,330	49%	$29,250	82%
William & Mary	$20,436	26%	$22,000	37%