Virginia · Private nonprofit · Predominantly bachelor's

Patrick Henry College

Purcellville, Virginia. 373 undergraduate students. 8 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT

The numbers, vs. Virginia

Each tile compares this institution to the Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
Virginia median $44,813
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
65.5%+15% · '19→'24
Virginia median 50.7%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
373+35% · '19→'24
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
87.9%-3% · '19→'24
first-time, full-time
ADMISSION RATE
82.0%-10% · '19→'24
latest cohort
IN-STATE TUITION
$28,425+2% · '19→'24
out-of-state $28,425
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC

Ten-plus year arc

Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.

UNDERGRAD · 20192024395
39529220192024
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
COMPLETION 150% · 2019202473.9%
74%61%20192024
150%-time completion rate.IPEDS GR
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT · 20192024+35%

Patrick Henry College · undergrad enrollment rose

292 → 395

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome at Patrick Henry College

Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.

Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.

EARNINGS SUPPRESSED

Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations · Bachelor's Degree at Patrick Henry College(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

CAUSAL DISCIPLINE

Patrick Henry College graduates earn $X” — not “Patrick Henry College makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Patrick Henry College caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.

Methodology →