-47%
Virginia University of Lynchburg · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Virginia University of Lynchburg are 47% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($28.4k vs $53.4k).
State hub · Virginia · vintage 2025-05
Virginia Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Virginia — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Virginia
Top signals rolled up across Virginiainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-28%
Virginia Union University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Virginia Union University are 28% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($38.3k vs $53.4k).
-25%
Hollins University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Hollins University are 25% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($40.1k vs $53.4k).
-16%
Patrick & Henry Community College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Patrick & Henry Community College are 16% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $39.8k).
-14%
Wytheville Community College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Wytheville Community College are 14% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($34.3k vs $39.8k).
+343%
Chester Career College · In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Chester Career College rose 343% between 2002 and 2004 ($5.5k → $24.3k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Virginia Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
119
Title-IV main campuses4,571
with published outcomes$44,813
across institutions50.7%
median across institutions374,482
latest historical vintage$14,640
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Virginia has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+31%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
45.1% → 59.3%
+57%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
237,930 → 374,482
+302%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$3,640 → $14,640
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
52 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 52 of 119 Title-IV institutions · Public 44 · Private 42 · For-profit 33
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 65 Virginia cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Abingdon
- Alberta
- Annandale
- Arlington
- Ashland
- Big Stone Gap
- Blacksburg
- Bluefield
- Bridgewater
- Bristol
- Buena Vista
- Cedar Bluff
- Charlottesville
- Chesapeake
- Chester
- CHESTER
- Clifton Forge
- Colonial Heights
- Culpeper
- Danville
- Dublin
- Emory
- Fairfax
- Falls Church
- Farmville
- Ferrum
- Franklin
- Fredericksburg
- Gainesville
- Glenns
- Great Falls
- Grundy
- Hampden-Sydney
- Hampton
- Harrisonburg
- Lexington
- Locust Grove
- Lynchburg
- Manassas
- Martinsville
- Melfa
- Middletown
- Newport News
- Newport News
- Norfolk
- Oakwood
- Petersburg
- Purcellville
- Radford
- Reston
- Richmond
- Roanoke
- Salem
- South Prince George
- Staunton
- Sterling
- Sweet Briar
- University of Richmond
- Vienna
- Virginia Beach
- Weyers Cave
- Williamsburg
- Winchester
- Wise
- Wytheville
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.