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Program Details
Virginia Commonwealth University
Illustration (50.0410)
Bachelor's Degree

Enrollment, Awards, Wages, Debt, and Other Outcomes

Communication Arts

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

Degree Title: BFA

2010 CIP Code: 500410

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

Date Progam Approved to Confer Degrees: 05/2007

Date of Last Council Action (mm/yyyy) 05/2006

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
2019-20	338	312	89
2020-21	403	366	111
2021-22	433	405	103
2022-23	483	461	131
2023-24	502	481	139

Average time-to-completion in years	Average credits-to-completion	Average monthly earnings six months after graduation
4.11	119

Average time-to-completion in years (transfer students)	Average credits-to-completion (transfer students)
3.44	89

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
2019-20	62	27	89
2020-21	84	27	111
2021-22	87	16	103
2022-23	107	24	131
2023-24	116	23	139
Five Year Summary	456	117	573

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	15	66	1	72	573	49	314	6	573

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)	265	0%
2014-15 (8 years)	313	0%
2017-18 (5 years)	348	0%
2019-20 (3 years)	776	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	238	61.5%	$ 20,000	$ 27,000	$ 32,200	$ 39,658
2016-17 to 2020-21	268	61.9%	$ 19,500	$ 27,000	$ 32,385	$ 37,751
2017-18 to 2021-22	281	61.0%	$ 19,500	$ 27,000	$ 34,024	$ 39,911
2018-19 to 2022-23	290	55.6%	$ 19,500	$ 27,000	$ 33,408	$ 34,500

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	239	61.8%	$ 21,500	$ 31,000	$ 40,802	$ 52,412
2016-17 to 2020-21	269	62.1%	$ 21,500	$ 31,000	$ 44,030	$ 57,290
2017-18 to 2021-22	282	61.2%	$ 21,500	$ 32,588	$ 47,364	$ 62,343
2018-19 to 2022-23	293	56.1%	$ 20,500	$ 31,000	$ 48,128	$ 63,888

More Details on Enrollment History.

More Details on Degree Awards History.