Bachelor's · Beckley, West Virginia
Is Business/Commerce, General at West Virginia University Institute of Technology worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,285
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,217
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,580
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $63k (likely $63k – $86k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $34k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WV
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.7 years (likely 3.2–4.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $86k (likely $9k – $157k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $500k (likely $353k – $672k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 30%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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📈 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Business/Commerce, General at other schools in West Virginia
- University of Charleston$70,084
- West Virginia University$65,372
- Strayer University-West Virginia$64,016
- West Virginia Wesleyan College$60,815
- American Public University System$57,104
- Marshall University$44,431