First Destination Report: 2022-2023 Undergraduate Degree Recipients: Salary details for employed graduates
Whole University
Skip to main contentCollege / Major | Graduates | Respondents | % Respondents (% of Graduates) |
Employed | % Employed (% of Respondents) |
Reported Salary |
% Reported Salary (% of Employed) |
25th Percentile |
Median | 75th Percentile |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whole University | 7991 | 5110 | 64% | 2997 | 59% | 1976 | 66% | $51000 | $70000 | $80000 |
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 725 | 427 | 59% | 177 | 41% | 86 | 49% | $33280 | $39520 | $50000 |
Agribusiness | 28 | 18 | 64% | 13 | 72% | 6 | 46% | $55000 | ||
Agricultural Sciences | 12 | 9 | 75% | 5 | 56% | 3 | 60% | |||
Agricultural Technology | 42 | 8 | 19% | 3 | 38% | 2 | 67% | |||
Animal and Poultry Sciences | 137 | 94 | 69% | 46 | 49% | 16 | 35% | $31200 | $33280 | $38688 |
Applied Economic Management | 9 | 6 | 67% | 2 | 33% | 2 | 100% | |||
Biochemistry | 95 | 48 | 51% | 16 | 33% | 10 | 63% | $35651 | ||
Community Economic Development | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 100% | 1 | 100% | |||
Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences | 12 | 9 | 75% | 3 | 33% | 1 | 33% | |||
Dairy Science | 17 | 13 | 76% | 7 | 54% | 4 | 57% | $33280 | ||
Ecological Restoration | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% | ||||||
Environmental Economics: Management and Policy | 7 | 5 | 71% | 3 | 60% | 2 | 67% | |||
Environmental Horticulture | 28 | 12 | 43% | 8 | 67% | 6 | 75% | $37696 | ||
Environmental Science | 35 | 19 | 54% | 6 | 32% | 6 | 100% | $49920 | ||
Food and Health Systems Economics | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% | ||||||
Food Science and Technology | 18 | 12 | 67% | 6 | 50% | 4 | 67% | $41600 | ||
Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise | 276 | 170 | 62% | 58 | 34% | 23 | 40% | $35000 | $37440 | $43680 |
International Trade and Development | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0% | ||||||
Landscape Horticulture and Design | 4 | 0 | 0% | |||||||
College of Architecture, Arts, and Design | 336 | 223 | 66% | 130 | 58% | 82 | 63% | $50000 | $56000 | $62000 |
Architecture | 135 | 94 | 70% | 69 | 73% | 47 | 68% | $52000 | $58000 | $62500 |
Art | 5 | 4 | 80% | 1 | 25% | 1 | 100% | |||
Building Construction | 2 | 2 | 100% | 2 | 100% | 2 | 100% | |||
Cinema | 18 | 12 | 67% | 3 | 25% | 2 | 67% | |||
Creative Technologies | 28 | 20 | 71% | 8 | 40% | 6 | 75% | $36000 | ||
Graphic Design | 23 | 17 | 74% | 9 | 53% | 5 | 56% | $47000 | ||
Industrial Design | 37 | 23 | 62% | 8 | 35% | 4 | 50% | $45000 | ||
Interior Design | 34 | 21 | 62% | 19 | 90% | 12 | 63% | $50000 | $56000 | $57000 |
Landscape Architecture | 14 | 8 | 57% | 6 | 75% | 1 | 17% | |||
Music | 21 | 12 | 57% | 2 | 17% | |||||
Studio Art | 5 | 2 | 40% | 0% | ||||||
Theatre Arts | 14 | 8 | 57% | 3 | 38% | 2 | 67% | |||
College of Engineering | 2506 | 1671 | 67% | 1103 | 66% | 816 | 74% | $70000 | $77000 | $85000 |
Aerospace Engineering | 234 | 163 | 70% | 104 | 64% | 81 | 78% | $73000 | $80000 | $84000 |
Automotive Engineering | 8 | 6 | 75% | 2 | 33% | 1 | 50% | |||
Biological Systems Engineering | 51 | 32 | 63% | 16 | 50% | 12 | 75% | $56160 | $65000 | $75000 |
Biomedical Engineering | 62 | 38 | 61% | 17 | 45% | 16 | 94% | $70000 | $70000 | $79000 |
Building Construction | 112 | 64 | 57% | 61 | 95% | 44 | 72% | $65000 | $70000 | $73000 |
Chemical Engineering | 92 | 63 | 68% | 46 | 73% | 32 | 70% | $70000 | $80000 | $82000 |
Chip-Scale Integration | 19 | 14 | 74% | 9 | 64% | 8 | 89% | $80000 | ||
Civil Engineering | 250 | 181 | 72% | 140 | 77% | 104 | 74% | $67000 | $70000 | $72500 |
Communications & Networking | 9 | 8 | 89% | 5 | 63% | 3 | 60% | |||
Computer Engineering | 75 | 52 | 69% | 23 | 44% | 18 | 78% | $75000 | $81300 | $95000 |
Computer Science | 523 | 331 | 63% | 191 | 58% | 138 | 72% | $80000 | $90000 | $110000 |
Construction Engineering and Management | 84 | 46 | 55% | 38 | 83% | 29 | 76% | $67500 | $73000 | $75000 |
Controls, Robotics & Autonomy | 58 | 45 | 78% | 26 | 58% | 15 | 58% | $75000 | $82160 | $90000 |
Data-Centric Computing | 20 | 12 | 60% | 8 | 67% | 6 | 75% | $77000 | ||
Electrical Engineering | 29 | 21 | 72% | 15 | 71% | 10 | 67% | $80000 | ||
Energy & Power Electronics Systems | 20 | 14 | 70% | 11 | 79% | 8 | 73% | $77000 | ||
Engineering Science and Mechanics | 10 | 5 | 50% | 3 | 60% | 2 | 67% | |||
Industrial and Systems Engineering | 243 | 161 | 66% | 126 | 78% | 93 | 74% | $70000 | $77000 | $87500 |
Machine Learning | 48 | 34 | 71% | 15 | 44% | 11 | 73% | $86000 | ||
Materials Science and Engineering | 56 | 34 | 61% | 12 | 35% | 11 | 92% | $76000 | ||
Mechanical Engineering | 293 | 194 | 66% | 143 | 74% | 107 | 75% | $70000 | $76000 | $81000 |
Micro/Nano Systems | 6 | 3 | 50% | 1 | 33% | 1 | 100% | |||
Mining Engineering | 38 | 29 | 76% | 25 | 86% | 20 | 80% | $65000 | $67000 | $75000 |
Networking & Cybersecurity | 37 | 29 | 78% | 19 | 66% | 16 | 84% | $73000 | $86400 | $90000 |
Ocean Engineering | 22 | 15 | 68% | 13 | 87% | 7 | 54% | $76000 | ||
Photonics | 4 | 2 | 50% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||
Radio Frequency & Microwave | 5 | 5 | 100% | 3 | 60% | 2 | 67% | |||
Robotics and Mechatronics | 40 | 28 | 70% | 8 | 29% | 6 | 75% | $74500 | ||
Secure computing | 22 | 15 | 68% | 8 | 53% | 6 | 75% | $87000 | ||
Software Systems | 32 | 24 | 75% | 11 | 46% | 5 | 45% | $96000 | ||
Space Systems | 4 | 3 | 75% | 3 | 100% | 3 | 100% | |||
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | 1245 | 743 | 60% | 299 | 40% | 164 | 55% | $39520 | $45000 | $55000 |
Childhood Pre-Education | 30 | 20 | 67% | 6 | 30% | 4 | 67% | $27560 | ||
Classical Studies | 1 | 0 | 0% | |||||||
Communication | 7 | 4 | 57% | 2 | 50% | 1 | 50% | |||
Communication Science and Social Inquiry | 52 | 33 | 63% | 15 | 45% | 7 | 47% | $50000 | ||
Consumer Studies | 18 | 9 | 50% | 1 | 11% | 1 | 100% | |||
Creative Writing | 19 | 16 | 84% | 4 | 25% | 2 | 50% | |||
Criminology | 125 | 66 | 53% | 30 | 45% | 18 | 60% | $38000 | $43646 | $58000 |
English | 30 | 15 | 50% | 4 | 27% | 1 | 25% | |||
Environmental Policy and Planning | 26 | 16 | 62% | 3 | 19% | |||||
Family and Consumer Science | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% | ||||||
Fashion Merchandising and Design | 34 | 21 | 62% | 12 | 57% | 6 | 50% | $45000 | ||
History | 35 | 18 | 51% | 2 | 11% | |||||
Human Development | 178 | 109 | 61% | 32 | 29% | 18 | 56% | $35360 | $39000 | $46987 |
Humanities for Public Service | 10 | 7 | 70% | 0% | ||||||
International Public Policy | 5 | 4 | 80% | 3 | 75% | |||||
International Relations | 53 | 34 | 64% | 11 | 32% | 6 | 55% | $55000 | ||
International Studies | 22 | 10 | 45% | 4 | 40% | 2 | 50% | |||
Multimedia Journalism | 41 | 24 | 59% | 6 | 25% | 4 | 67% | $40000 | ||
National Security & Foreign Affairs | 63 | 42 | 67% | 26 | 62% | 16 | 62% | $42000 | $43646 | $50000 |
Philosophy | 5 | 0 | 0% | |||||||
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | 29 | 17 | 59% | 6 | 35% | 4 | 67% | $49920 | ||
Political Science | 209 | 123 | 59% | 54 | 44% | 34 | 63% | $41000 | $45000 | $60000 |
Professional and Technical writing | 13 | 8 | 62% | 5 | 63% | 5 | 100% | $58000 | ||
Property Management | 19 | 7 | 37% | 6 | 86% | 4 | 67% | $60000 | ||
Public Relations | 76 | 52 | 68% | 23 | 44% | 15 | 65% | $42000 | $50000 | $55000 |
Religion and Culture | 3 | 1 | 33% | 0% | ||||||
Residential Environments and Design | 17 | 13 | 76% | 9 | 69% | 3 | 33% | |||
Russian | 6 | 5 | 83% | 1 | 20% | |||||
Smart and Sustainable Cities | 32 | 19 | 59% | 7 | 37% | 3 | 43% | |||
Sociology | 37 | 16 | 43% | 7 | 44% | 3 | 43% | |||
Spanish | 3 | 1 | 33% | 1 | 100% | |||||
Sports Media and Analytics | 46 | 32 | 70% | 19 | 59% | 7 | 37% | $45000 | ||
College of Natural Resources and Environment | 274 | 182 | 66% | 101 | 55% | 61 | 60% | $35360 | $44500 | $60000 |
Environmental Conservation & Society | 15 | 14 | 93% | 6 | 43% | 4 | 67% | $46384 | ||
Environmental Data Science | 14 | 10 | 71% | 5 | 50% | 4 | 80% | $52000 | ||
Environmental Informatics | 6 | 3 | 50% | 2 | 67% | 1 | 50% | |||
Environmental Resources Management | 14 | 8 | 57% | 5 | 63% | 3 | 60% | |||
Fish Conservation | 9 | 7 | 78% | 3 | 43% | 1 | 33% | |||
Forestry | 12 | 6 | 50% | 4 | 67% | 1 | 25% | |||
Geography | 34 | 26 | 76% | 13 | 50% | 8 | 62% | $54600 | ||
Meteorology | 44 | 29 | 66% | 17 | 59% | 10 | 59% | $43646 | ||
Natural Resources Conservation | 7 | 2 | 29% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||
Packaging Systems and Design | 18 | 12 | 67% | 8 | 67% | 4 | 50% | $65000 | ||
Sustainable Biomaterials | 19 | 10 | 53% | 5 | 50% | 2 | 40% | |||
Water: Resources, Policy, and Management | 14 | 10 | 71% | 4 | 40% | 2 | 50% | |||
Wildlife Conservation | 68 | 45 | 66% | 28 | 62% | 20 | 71% | $31200 | $34840 | $41600 |
College of Science | 1268 | 738 | 58% | 322 | 44% | 179 | 56% | $37440 | $50000 | $80000 |
Biological Sciences | 352 | 207 | 59% | 90 | 43% | 42 | 47% | $34320 | $39104 | $46800 |
Chemistry | 32 | 21 | 66% | 5 | 24% | 5 | 100% | $70000 | ||
Clinical Neuroscience | 118 | 68 | 58% | 34 | 50% | 14 | 41% | $33946 | $37440 | $45760 |
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience | 66 | 36 | 55% | 19 | 53% | 8 | 42% | $45000 | ||
Computational and Systems Neuroscience | 15 | 9 | 60% | 4 | 44% | 2 | 50% | |||
Computational Modeling and Data Analytics | 192 | 114 | 59% | 67 | 59% | 50 | 75% | $75000 | $85000 | $98100 |
Economics | 67 | 39 | 58% | 13 | 33% | 9 | 69% | $55000 | ||
Experimental Neuroscience | 10 | 8 | 80% | 3 | 38% | |||||
Geosciences | 23 | 10 | 43% | 2 | 20% | 1 | 50% | |||
Mathematics | 61 | 37 | 61% | 13 | 35% | 8 | 62% | $60000 | ||
Medicinal Chemistry | 15 | 5 | 33% | 1 | 20% | |||||
Microbiology | 22 | 12 | 55% | 4 | 33% | 1 | 25% | |||
Nanomedicine | 10 | 6 | 60% | 3 | 50% | 2 | 67% | |||
Nanoscience | 3 | 2 | 67% | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | |||
Physics | 44 | 23 | 52% | 6 | 26% | 5 | 83% | $76459 | ||
Polymer Chemistry | 3 | 2 | 67% | 2 | 100% | |||||
Psychology | 210 | 123 | 59% | 45 | 37% | 23 | 51% | $35360 | $40000 | $43680 |
Statistics | 20 | 12 | 60% | 9 | 75% | 8 | 89% | $67000 | ||
Systems Biology | 5 | 4 | 80% | 1 | 25% | |||||
Pamplin College of Business | 1533 | 1070 | 70% | 850 | 79% | 583 | 69% | $54000 | $68000 | $80000 |
Accounting and Information Systems | 127 | 95 | 75% | 55 | 58% | 39 | 71% | $65000 | $72000 | $75000 |
Business Information Technology | 475 | 328 | 69% | 266 | 81% | 180 | 68% | $67320 | $80000 | $86000 |
Cybersecurity Management and Analytics | 31 | 23 | 74% | 18 | 78% | 17 | 94% | $70000 | $80000 | $85000 |
Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology Management | 5 | 5 | 100% | 5 | 100% | 2 | 40% | |||
Finance | 313 | 213 | 68% | 177 | 83% | 134 | 76% | $58000 | $68000 | $75000 |
Financial Planning and Wealth Management | 11 | 8 | 73% | 8 | 100% | 4 | 50% | $55000 | ||
FinTech and Big Data Analytics | 4 | 4 | 100% | 4 | 100% | 3 | 75% | |||
Hospitality and Tourism Management | 56 | 39 | 70% | 33 | 85% | 16 | 48% | $50000 | $52250 | $55120 |
Human Resources Management | 3 | 3 | 100% | 2 | 67% | 1 | 50% | |||
Management | 184 | 133 | 72% | 97 | 73% | 64 | 66% | $46800 | $58000 | $73500 |
Management Consulting and Analytics | 15 | 9 | 60% | 9 | 100% | 6 | 67% | $64000 | ||
Marketing Management | 238 | 161 | 68% | 136 | 84% | 88 | 65% | $47000 | $53000 | $65000 |
Real Estate | 71 | 49 | 69% | 40 | 82% | 29 | 73% | $48000 | $60000 | $70000 |
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine | 104 | 56 | 54% | 15 | 27% | 5 | 33% | $43680 | ||
Public Health | 104 | 56 | 54% | 15 | 27% | 5 | 33% | $43680 |