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All Institutions, Political Science and Government, General
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$97,395	28%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$90,907	29%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$85,731	32%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$73,514	34%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$62,842	36%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$51,217	35%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$39,186	34%

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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Political Science and Government, General, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Bridgewater College	$33,838	41%	$28,444	84%
Christopher Newport University	$38,719	53%	$26,718	60%
Ferrum College	$28,487	46%	$29,390	77%
Hampden-Sydney College	$39,192	52%	$36,292	74%
James Madison University	$35,980	44%	$22,901	45%
Longwood University	$29,885	59%	$26,424	69%
Mary Baldwin University	$21,261	44%	$32,667	84%
Marymount University	$46,482	32%	$29,656	68%
Norfolk State University	$26,258	46%	$32,201	88%
Old Dominion University	$34,689	46%	$24,000	72%
Radford University	$29,906	56%	$27,244	64%
Randolph-Macon College	$33,522	53%	$28,081	73%
University of Lynchburg	$34,045	54%	$30,750	84%
University of Mary Washington	$34,290	49%	$26,720	54%
University of Virginia	$42,668	31%	$22,021	38%
Virginia Commonwealth University	$34,140	53%	$26,742	67%
Virginia State University	$26,846	48%	$30,923	93%
Virginia Tech	$36,630	36%	$27,000	58%
Virginia Wesleyan University	$21,206	40%	$27,875	74%
William & Mary	$40,589	28%	$22,552	42%