-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Virginia Western Community College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.2% → 0.0%).
Virginia · Public · Predominantly associate's
Virginia Western Community College
Roanoke, Virginia. 3,777 undergraduate students. 66 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Virginia Western Community College
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+10%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at Virginia Western Community College rose 10% between 2006 and 2009 (14.1% → 15.5%).
+10%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Virginia Western Community College rose 10% between 2021 and 2024 (3.5k → 3.9k).
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.
$38,787+15% · 6→10y
Virginia median $44,813$33,847
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry40.6%-9% · '97→'09
Virginia median 50.7%$7,200+319% · '97→'20
At program completion3,777+5% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS64.8%+14% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$5,256+391% · '00→'24
out-of-state $11,259SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
2.5%Median federal debt $7,200 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $38,787 (10y after entry).
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.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+14%
Virginia Western Community College · retention rose
55.0% → 62.7%
+391%
Virginia Western Community College · in-state tuition rose
$1,100 → $5,400
+147%
Virginia Western Community College · out-of-state tuition rose
$4,785 → $11,838
+319%
Virginia Western Community College · median debt rose
$2,625 → $11,000
-100%
Virginia Western Community College · cohort default rate fell
18.9% → 0.0%
+72%
Virginia Western Community College · pell share rose
17.7% → 30.3%
+35%
Virginia Western Community College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$28,800 → $38,787
+32%
Virginia Western Community College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$25,600 → $33,847
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
Engineering, General.$76,297Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$66,295Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$65,927Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$65,360Computer and Information Sciences, General.$50,094Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$48,637Criminal Justice and Corrections.$45,387Business Administration, Management and Operations.$44,613Legal Support Services.$42,609Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$42,436Biological and Physical Sciences.$42,298Social Sciences, General.$35,551Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$35,443Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.$34,934Culinary Arts and Related Services.$33,687Health and Medical Administrative Services.$32,974Design and Applied Arts.$32,086Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$31,871
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
18 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
HOMELAND SECURITY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES · CIP 43
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
Health and Medical Administrative Services.$32,974Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$66,295Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.$65,360Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$31,871Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$65,927Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$48,637Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.$42,436
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Virginia Western Community 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%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$60,641
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $6,893
- HS-only baseline · VA
- $39,800
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 24
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Virginia Western Community College graduates earn $X” — not “Virginia Western Community College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Virginia Western Community 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.