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Program Details
Northern Virginia Community College
Dental Assisting/Assistant (51.0601)
Longer-Term Undergraduate Certificate

Enrollment, Awards, Wages, Debt, and Other Outcomes

Dental Assisting

Program Status: Active/Approved to Enroll Students and Confer Degrees

Degree Title: CERT

2010 CIP Code: XXXXXX

	Credit Hours	Program Offered
On-Campus:	Yes	Yes
Off-Campus:	Yes	No

Date Progam Approved to Confer Degrees: 09/2014

Date of Last Council Action (mm/yyyy) 09/2014

Date Program Placed on Probation: BCHE

Date Program Closed:

BCHE - Before Council of Higher Education

Enrollments and Awards
Academic Year	Fall Headcount	Annual FTE	Degrees
2020-21	19	17	11
2021-22	17	17	10
2022-23	17	15	13
2023-24	22	20	14
2024-25	15	14	15

Average time-to-completion in years	Average credits-to-completion	Average monthly earnings six months after graduation

The table to the right provides the degree award history of each the last five years, disaggregated by state residency. This breakout may may help explain why a relatively low percentage of program completers may appear to be working in Virginia.

Program Graduates by Domicile
Year	In-State	Out-of-State	Total
2020-21	11	0	11
2021-22	10	0	10
2022-23	13	0	13
2023-24	13	1	14
2024-25	15	0	15
Five Year Summary	62	1	63

Distribution by Gender and Race/Ethnicity within Five-year Totals,

Year	Foreign/ International	African Am. or Black (NH)	Am. Indian/ Native Am. (NH)	Asian/ Pacific Islander (NH)	Hispanic	White, Caucasian Am. (NH)	Multi-Race (NH)	Unknown/ Unreported (NH)	Total
Sum of the Last 5 Years	3	10	0	9	63	23	10	4	63

Wages Earned in 2020

The table below shows the wage data for the select program and places it in the context of all wages at the same degree level of this institution by graduates with at least three (3) quarters of employment.

Post-Completion Wage Outcomes, Earnings in
Graduation Year	Grads (n)	Grads w/Wages (n)
2012-13 (10 years)		NaN
2014-15 (8 years)		NaN
2017-18 (5 years)	34	0%
2019-20 (3 years)	108	0%

Student Debt of Graduates

Number of Borrowers and Known Debt at Graduation
	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2015-16 to 2019-20	34	31.5%	$ 4,452	$ 9,159	$ 11,501	$ 16,820
2016-17 to 2020-21	36	32.1%	$ 5,444	$ 11,707	$ 13,356	$ 18,800
2017-18 to 2021-22	28	26.4%	$ 5,444	$ 11,584	$ 13,055	$ 18,800
2018-19 to 2022-23	34	31.5%	$ 5,500	$ 10,884	$ 12,346	$ 17,316
2019-20 to 2023-24	36	31.6%	$ 5,500	$ 10,884	$ 12,485	$ 17,316

Note: Student borrowing at graduation, excludes PLUS loans, in five-year rollups. Includes all known institutionally-processed borrowing occuring at all public and nonprofit institutions in Virginia. Debt accrued outside Virginia in prior postsecondary activity is not available.

Number of Borrowers and Known Debt at Graduation, Including Parent-PLUS and Grad-PLUS
	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2015-16 to 2019-20	34	31.5%	$ 4,452	$ 9,159	$ 11,501	$ 16,820
2016-17 to 2020-21	36	32.1%	$ 5,444	$ 11,707	$ 13,356	$ 18,800
2017-18 to 2021-22	28	26.4%	$ 5,444	$ 11,584	$ 13,055	$ 18,800
2018-19 to 2022-23	34	31.5%	$ 7,141	$ 10,884	$ 13,228	$ 18,264
2019-20 to 2023-24	36	31.6%	$ 7,141	$ 10,885	$ 13,318	$ 18,264

More Details on Enrollment History.

More Details on Degree Awards History.