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All Institutions, Dentistry
Earnings in 2023	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$181,153	51%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$166,153	32%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$202,940	38%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$167,629	41%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$237,871	36%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$184,250	39%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$129,587	28%

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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Dentistry, Graduates from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Institution	Median Wage	Percentage Students w/ Reported Wage	Median Debt	Percentage Students with Debt
Virginia Commonwealth University	$115,049	27%	$268,058	79%