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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The NPVs are from the Center on Education and the Workforce. Their NPV work makes a ton of assumptions. However, if you don’t want to deal with that, they also offer first-year salaries for a variety of majors from various colleges. Keep in mind, comparing these salaries still have their challenges. For example, more graduates from some colleges work in big cities where salaries are higher. Here are the monthly salary stats for business and economic programs at VA not-for-profit schools:

[b]1)	UVA McIntire – Business/Commerce $6,300[/b]
2)	University of Richmond – Economics $5,458
[b]3)	UVA – Economics $4,975[/b]
4)	Washington and Lee – Economics $4,500
5)	College of William and Mary – Economics $4,133
6)	George Mason – Economics $4,133
7)	James Madison – Economics $4,025
8)	Virginia Tech – Economics $3,750
9)	VCU – Business/Commerce $3,467
10)	Christopher Newport – Economics $3,383
11)	Randolph Macon – Economics $3,317
12)	Hampden-Sydney – Economics $3,275
13)	VMI – Economics $3,175
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Now I understand why so many want to attend UVA. It provides great value - high salary, low cost - at least for these programs.[/quote]

Well except that if you like economics you should attend Richmond instead [/quote]

Most of these schools have business, but only UVA and VCU had lines included for business.  The overall analysis where they factored mix of majors looks quite different:

Institution	  Median Earnings	Expected Earnings	Over/Under
Washington and Lee 	        $77,600	$60,400	$17,200
University of Richmond	$60,800	$56,300	$4,500
James Madison University	$53,400	$49,800	$3,600
William and Mary	        $56,400	$55,100	$1,300
George Mason University	$57,000	$55,800	$1,200
Virginia Tech	                $57,900	$56,900	$1,000
Mary Washington   	        $47,400	$47,900	-$500
Randolph-Macon College	$45,700	$48,000	-$2,300
University of Virginia	        $58,600	$61,000	-$2,400
Virginia Military Institute	$56,600	$60,000	-$3,400
Hampden-Sydney College	$50,200	$54,500	-$4,300[/quote]

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