Medicine at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Federal outcomes for first professional degree graduates of West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. 178 completers in the most recent 4-year window (194 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $70,706.
What this program's debt costs its graduates
Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.
This program at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
50.8%Median federal debt $269,399 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $70,706.
Statewide CIP-4 peer median
22.5%Same debt against the West Virginia CIP 5112 peer-median earnings $159,424.
How this program has shifted
Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.
Medicine at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine · debt_median rose
202,335 → 269,399
Estimate the financial outcome of this 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. Selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. This is an outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Medicine · First Professional Degree at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine(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.
Medicine across West Virginia institutions
Same CIP-4 code and credential level, all West Virginia Title-IV institutions where Scorecard publishes outcomes. Cohort floor is 30 students.
What this page tells you, and what it doesn't
Earnings are median annual earnings of federally aided students who completed this program at this institution, drawn from federal tax records. They describe cohorts. They do not predict your earnings, and they do not claim that this program caused those outcomes — selection effects (who enrolls, who finishes, what fields they enter) dominate cross-program differences. Em-dashes mean the federal data was suppressed because the cohort was below the 30-student floor.