First Destination Report: 2023-2024 Undergraduate Degree Recipients: Bonus details for employed graduates
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(Medians are shown when four or more individuals reported salary or bonus; 25th and 75th percentiles are shown when 12 or more individuals reported salary or bonus.)
| College / Major | Graduates | Respondents | % Respondents (% of Graduates) | Employed | % Employed (% of Respondents) | Reported Salary | % Reported Salary (% of Employed) | Reported Bonus | % Reported Bonus (% of Employed) | Median Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole University | 7395 | 4682 | 63% | 2593 | 55% | 1359 | 52% | 518 | 20% | $5000 |
| College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 714 | 399 | 56% | 163 | 41% | 73 | 45% | 11 | 7% | $5000 |
| Agribusiness | 31 | 16 | 52% | 13 | 81% | 10 | 77% | 2 | 15% | |
| Agricultural Sciences | 11 | 8 | 73% | 2 | 25% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Agricultural Technology | 55 | 16 | 29% | 10 | 63% | 2 | 20% | |||
| Animal and Poultry Sciences | 148 | 94 | 64% | 33 | 35% | 16 | 48% | 1 | 3% | |
| Biochemistry | 110 | 70 | 64% | 25 | 36% | 11 | 44% | 1 | 4% | |
| Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences | 14 | 10 | 71% | 7 | 70% | 4 | 57% | 1 | 14% | |
| Dairy Science | 11 | 8 | 73% | 3 | 38% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Ecological Restoration | 13 | 9 | 69% | 2 | 22% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Environmental Economics: Management and Policy | 10 | 5 | 50% | 2 | 40% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| Environmental Horticulture | 23 | 9 | 39% | 6 | 67% | 1 | 17% | |||
| Environmental Science | 34 | 23 | 68% | 13 | 57% | 5 | 38% | 1 | 8% | |
| Exercise and Health Sciences | 25 | 9 | 36% | 2 | 22% | |||||
| Food and Health Systems Economics | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 1 | 100% | |
| Food Science and Technology | 23 | 12 | 52% | 6 | 50% | 4 | 67% | 2 | 33% | |
| Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise | 181 | 98 | 54% | 36 | 37% | 14 | 39% | |||
| International Trade and Development | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |||||
| Landscape Horticulture and Design | 8 | 2 | 25% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 1 | 100% | |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 9 | 6 | 67% | 0% | ||||||
| College of Architecture, Arts, and Design | 325 | 180 | 55% | 88 | 49% | 44 | 50% | 12 | 14% | $2000 |
| Architecture | 135 | 72 | 53% | 45 | 63% | 26 | 58% | 6 | 13% | $2000 |
| Art | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |||||
| Cinema | 13 | 5 | 38% | 2 | 40% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Creative Technologies | 32 | 21 | 66% | 7 | 33% | 1 | 14% | |||
| Graphic Design | 13 | 7 | 54% | 3 | 43% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Industrial Design | 36 | 23 | 64% | 7 | 30% | 5 | 71% | |||
| Interior Design | 38 | 21 | 55% | 8 | 38% | 2 | 25% | 2 | 25% | |
| Landscape Architecture | 19 | 11 | 58% | 8 | 73% | 5 | 63% | 4 | 50% | $2000 |
| Music | 14 | 7 | 50% | 2 | 29% | |||||
| Studio Art | 11 | 4 | 36% | 1 | 25% | 1 | 100% | |||
| Theatre Arts | 10 | 7 | 70% | 4 | 57% | 2 | 50% | |||
| College of Engineering | 2201 | 1435 | 65% | 875 | 61% | 541 | 62% | 244 | 28% | $5000 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 174 | 123 | 71% | 64 | 52% | 36 | 56% | 14 | 22% | $3000 |
| Automotive Engineering | 9 | 6 | 67% | 3 | 50% | 3 | 100% | |||
| Biological Systems Engineering | 31 | 15 | 48% | 1 | 7% | |||||
| Biomedical Engineering | 66 | 42 | 64% | 15 | 36% | 6 | 40% | 3 | 20% | |
| Building Construction | 105 | 59 | 56% | 55 | 93% | 29 | 53% | 12 | 22% | $2500 |
| Chemical Engineering | 79 | 57 | 72% | 38 | 67% | 28 | 74% | 13 | 34% | $5000 |
| Chip-Scale Integration | 8 | 5 | 63% | 1 | 20% | 1 | 100% | 1 | 100% | |
| Civil Engineering | 217 | 147 | 68% | 109 | 74% | 79 | 72% | 40 | 37% | $3000 |
| Communications & Networking | 7 | 3 | 43% | 2 | 67% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |
| Computer Engineering | 72 | 47 | 65% | 25 | 53% | 16 | 64% | 6 | 24% | $7999 |
| Computer Science | 493 | 307 | 62% | 139 | 45% | 76 | 55% | 43 | 31% | $10000 |
| Construction Engineering and Management | 79 | 66 | 84% | 58 | 88% | 48 | 83% | 21 | 36% | $3000 |
| Controls, Robotics & Autonomy | 38 | 26 | 68% | 11 | 42% | 8 | 73% | 3 | 27% | |
| Data-Centric Computing | 11 | 8 | 73% | 4 | 50% | 3 | 75% | 1 | 25% | |
| Electrical Engineering | 38 | 23 | 61% | 15 | 65% | 7 | 47% | 3 | 20% | |
| Energy & Power Electronics Systems | 12 | 9 | 75% | 7 | 78% | 5 | 71% | 2 | 29% | |
| Industrial and Systems Engineering | 210 | 142 | 68% | 107 | 75% | 65 | 61% | 28 | 26% | $5000 |
| Machine Learning | 30 | 24 | 80% | 13 | 54% | 7 | 54% | 3 | 23% | |
| Materials Science and Engineering | 37 | 21 | 57% | 13 | 62% | 9 | 69% | 6 | 46% | $5000 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 323 | 199 | 62% | 139 | 70% | 81 | 58% | 36 | 26% | $6000 |
| Micro/Nano Systems | 13 | 9 | 69% | 4 | 44% | 3 | 75% | 2 | 50% | |
| Mining Engineering | 12 | 7 | 58% | 6 | 86% | 3 | 50% | |||
| Networking & Cybersecurity | 31 | 21 | 68% | 11 | 52% | 6 | 55% | 2 | 18% | |
| Ocean Engineering | 25 | 14 | 56% | 10 | 71% | 7 | 70% | 1 | 10% | |
| Photonics | 1 | 0 | 0% | |||||||
| Radio Frequency & Microwave | 7 | 5 | 71% | 1 | 20% | 1 | 100% | |||
| Robotics and Mechatronics | 27 | 15 | 56% | 7 | 47% | 2 | 29% | |||
| Secure computing | 16 | 12 | 75% | 8 | 67% | 5 | 63% | 1 | 13% | |
| Software Systems | 24 | 18 | 75% | 9 | 50% | 6 | 67% | 2 | 22% | |
| Space Systems | 6 | 5 | 83% | 0% | ||||||
| College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | 1092 | 627 | 57% | 254 | 41% | 109 | 43% | 9 | 4% | $5000 |
| Advertising | 5 | 2 | 40% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||
| Childhood Pre-Education | 27 | 19 | 70% | 2 | 11% | |||||
| Classical Studies | 8 | 5 | 63% | 2 | 40% | 2 | 100% | |||
| Communication | 66 | 34 | 52% | 16 | 47% | 9 | 56% | |||
| Communication Science and Social Inquiry | 6 | 4 | 67% | 3 | 75% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Consumer Studies | 15 | 9 | 60% | 4 | 44% | |||||
| Creative Writing | 21 | 15 | 71% | 7 | 47% | 3 | 43% | |||
| Criminology | 101 | 68 | 67% | 25 | 37% | 6 | 24% | |||
| English | 32 | 19 | 59% | 3 | 16% | 1 | 33% | |||
| English Language Arts Education | 2 | 2 | 100% | 1 | 50% | |||||
| Environmental Policy and Planning | 28 | 17 | 61% | 6 | 35% | 4 | 67% | 1 | 17% | |
| Family and Consumer Science | 4 | 3 | 75% | 1 | 33% | 1 | 100% | |||
| Fashion Merchandising and Design | 16 | 6 | 38% | 1 | 17% | |||||
| French | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0% | ||||||
| German | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% | ||||||
| History | 36 | 18 | 50% | 8 | 44% | 3 | 38% | |||
| History and Social Sciences Education | 5 | 3 | 60% | 1 | 33% | |||||
| Human Development | 139 | 76 | 55% | 20 | 26% | 5 | 25% | 1 | 5% | |
| Humanities for Public Service | 10 | 6 | 60% | 4 | 67% | 2 | 50% | 1 | 25% | |
| International Public Policy | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||
| International Relations | 28 | 11 | 39% | 4 | 36% | 2 | 50% | 1 | 25% | |
| International Studies | 14 | 9 | 64% | 4 | 44% | 2 | 50% | |||
| Multimedia Journalism | 40 | 23 | 57% | 10 | 43% | 6 | 60% | |||
| National Security & Foreign Affairs | 65 | 43 | 66% | 20 | 47% | 8 | 40% | |||
| Philosophy | 11 | 7 | 64% | 1 | 14% | |||||
| Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | 33 | 14 | 42% | 6 | 43% | 5 | 83% | 1 | 17% | |
| Political Science | 158 | 95 | 60% | 47 | 49% | 19 | 40% | 1 | 2% | |
| Professional and Technical writing | 13 | 8 | 62% | 3 | 38% | 2 | 67% | 1 | 33% | |
| Property Management | 16 | 10 | 63% | 7 | 70% | 4 | 57% | |||
| Public Relations | 58 | 35 | 60% | 18 | 51% | 9 | 50% | 2 | 11% | |
| Religion and Culture | 4 | 2 | 50% | 2 | 100% | |||||
| Residential Environments and Design | 11 | 5 | 45% | 5 | 100% | 2 | 40% | |||
| Russian | 4 | 0 | 0% | |||||||
| Smart and Sustainable Cities | 18 | 14 | 78% | 6 | 43% | 4 | 67% | |||
| Sociology | 29 | 11 | 38% | 3 | 27% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Spanish | 2 | 2 | 100% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||
| Sports Media and Analytics | 60 | 28 | 47% | 11 | 39% | 5 | 45% | |||
| College of Natural Resources and Environment | 257 | 174 | 68% | 89 | 51% | 46 | 52% | 8 | 9% | $5000 |
| Environmental Conservation & Society | 36 | 23 | 64% | 10 | 43% | 6 | 60% | |||
| Environmental Data Science | 6 | 2 | 33% | 1 | 50% | |||||
| Environmental Resources Management | 27 | 17 | 63% | 7 | 41% | 4 | 57% | 2 | 29% | |
| Fish Conservation | 10 | 8 | 80% | 2 | 25% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Forestry | 19 | 14 | 74% | 8 | 57% | 5 | 63% | |||
| Geography | 28 | 21 | 75% | 9 | 43% | 3 | 33% | |||
| Meteorology | 39 | 29 | 74% | 17 | 59% | 9 | 53% | 1 | 6% | |
| Packaging Systems and Design | 19 | 12 | 63% | 7 | 58% | 7 | 100% | 4 | 57% | $3000 |
| Sustainable Biomaterials | 10 | 8 | 80% | 5 | 63% | 1 | 20% | |||
| Water: Resources, Policy, and Management | 7 | 4 | 57% | 2 | 50% | |||||
| Wildlife Conservation | 56 | 36 | 64% | 21 | 58% | 10 | 48% | 1 | 5% | |
| College of Science | 1161 | 681 | 59% | 244 | 36% | 122 | 50% | 28 | 11% | $5000 |
| Biological Sciences | 277 | 156 | 56% | 51 | 33% | 16 | 31% | 1 | 2% | |
| Chemistry | 32 | 19 | 59% | 3 | 16% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Clinical Neuroscience | 107 | 65 | 61% | 24 | 37% | 10 | 42% | 1 | 4% | |
| Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience | 73 | 44 | 60% | 23 | 52% | 7 | 30% | 1 | 4% | |
| Computational and Systems Neuroscience | 10 | 6 | 60% | 2 | 33% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Computational Modeling and Data Analytics | 143 | 87 | 61% | 42 | 48% | 30 | 71% | 10 | 24% | $5000 |
| Economics | 86 | 44 | 51% | 18 | 41% | 10 | 56% | 5 | 28% | $5000 |
| Experimental Neuroscience | 10 | 9 | 90% | 2 | 22% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Geosciences | 25 | 21 | 84% | 6 | 29% | 4 | 67% | |||
| Mathematics | 54 | 34 | 63% | 9 | 26% | 6 | 67% | 4 | 44% | $10000 |
| Medicinal Chemistry | 18 | 11 | 61% | 4 | 36% | 2 | 50% | |||
| Microbiology | 25 | 16 | 64% | 2 | 13% | 1 | 50% | |||
| Nanomedicine | 6 | 2 | 33% | 0% | ||||||
| Nanoscience | 4 | 2 | 50% | 0% | ||||||
| Physics | 47 | 22 | 47% | 2 | 9% | 2 | 100% | |||
| Polymer Chemistry | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||||
| Psychology | 218 | 127 | 58% | 49 | 39% | 29 | 59% | 6 | 12% | $5000 |
| Statistics | 17 | 11 | 65% | 3 | 27% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Systems Biology | 7 | 4 | 57% | 3 | 75% | 1 | 33% | |||
| Pamplin College of Business | 1541 | 1128 | 73% | 871 | 77% | 420 | 48% | 204 | 23% | $5000 |
| Accounting and Information Systems | 128 | 107 | 84% | 68 | 64% | 40 | 59% | 26 | 38% | $2000 |
| Business Information Technology | 387 | 256 | 66% | 203 | 79% | 107 | 53% | 77 | 38% | $5000 |
| Commercial Development and Investment | 4 | 3 | 75% | 3 | 100% | |||||
| Cybersecurity Management and Analytics | 150 | 98 | 65% | 61 | 62% | 22 | 36% | 10 | 16% | $7500 |
| Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology Management | 27 | 21 | 78% | 18 | 86% | 10 | 56% | 3 | 17% | |
| Finance | 265 | 206 | 78% | 177 | 86% | 92 | 52% | 45 | 25% | $7000 |
| Financial Planning and Wealth Management | 20 | 18 | 90% | 18 | 100% | 10 | 56% | 1 | 6% | |
| FinTech and Big Data Analytics | 19 | 15 | 79% | 12 | 80% | 8 | 67% | 4 | 33% | $5000 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Management | 44 | 35 | 80% | 31 | 89% | 15 | 48% | 2 | 6% | |
| Human Resources Management | 14 | 11 | 79% | 9 | 82% | 5 | 56% | 2 | 22% | |
| Management | 108 | 81 | 75% | 57 | 70% | 30 | 53% | 8 | 14% | $5000 |
| Management Consulting and Analytics | 42 | 32 | 76% | 25 | 78% | 12 | 48% | 7 | 28% | $7000 |
| Marketing Management | 272 | 202 | 74% | 154 | 76% | 61 | 40% | 19 | 12% | $3000 |
| Real Estate | 53 | 38 | 72% | 30 | 79% | 8 | 27% | |||
| Real Estate Finance | 3 | 1 | 33% | 1 | 100% | |||||
| Residential Development and Investment | 5 | 4 | 80% | 4 | 100% | |||||
| Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine | 104 | 58 | 56% | 9 | 16% | 4 | 44% | 2 | 22% | |
| Public Health | 104 | 58 | 56% | 9 | 16% | 4 | 44% | 2 | 22% |