{"admissions":{"act_25":22,"act_75":30,"admit_rate":93.1,"applicants":19052,"sat_25":1030,"sat_75":1270,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"act_pct":4,"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":35,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Virginia Commonwealth University is a public four-year college in VA. It admitted 93% of applicants (19,052 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1030\u20131270, ACT 22\u201330. 35% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 4% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $23,433 a year on average with aid, $38,954 a year at full price for in-state students.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $58,128 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $487,548 ahead with aid, $425,464 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer and Information Sciences, General ($118,521); Computer Engineering ($118,273); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($107,487).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 7% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 27% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Virginia Commonwealth University: 12, 22 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Collegiate School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 College Enrollments / 2023-26 4-Year College Enrollments, counted column \"Class of 2026 College Enrollments\"); Wakefield School (1.2 per class year, 6 over 5 class years, 2022 - 2026); St. Christopher's School (1.0 per class year, 5 over 5 class years, 2022-2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/virginia-commonwealth-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Virginia Commonwealth University: 6, 23 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Key School (2.0 per class year, 12 over 6 class years, 2021 - 2026, counted column \"Acceptances 2021\u20132026\"); Oratory Preparatory School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); National Cathedral School (1.7 per class year, 5 over 3 class years, 2023-2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/virginia-commonwealth-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/virginia-commonwealth-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Public","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":17512},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":17777},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":20925},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":24691}],"full_price":38954,"in_state_basis":true,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":23433,"npc_url":"https://sfs.vcu.edu/tuition-and-fees/estimate-your-tuition-and-fees/","tuition_in_state":16945,"tuition_out_of_state":40109},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":58128,"median_6yr_after_entry":47161},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":23,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, so this counts admissions rather than students, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times. 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