10.6%
Huntington Junior College · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 10.6% at Huntington Junior College exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($17.3k debt amortized over 10 years vs $21.8k earnings).
State hub · West Virginia · vintage 2025-05
West Virginia Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in West Virginia — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across West Virginia
Top signals rolled up across West Virginiainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
+140%
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine rose 140% between 2013 and 2016 ($2.0k → $4.8k).
+126%
Monongalia County Technical Education Center · In-state tuition
In-state tuition at Monongalia County Technical Education Center rose 126% between 2009 and 2012 ($1.1k → $2.4k).
+126%
Monongalia County Technical Education Center · Out-of-state tuition
Out-of-state tuition at Monongalia County Technical Education Center rose 126% between 2009 and 2012 ($1.1k → $2.4k).
-100%
West Virginia University at Parkersburg · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at West Virginia University at Parkersburg fell 100% between 2016 and 2019 (11.1% → 0.0%).
-89%
Boone Career and Technical Center · First-year retention
First-year retention at Boone Career and Technical Center fell 89% between 2022 and 2024 (94.7% → 10.3%).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across West Virginia Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
62
Title-IV main campuses1,725
with published outcomes$37,714
across institutions61.2%
median across institutions99,224
latest historical vintage$9,574
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How West Virginia has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+49%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
66,542 → 99,224
+283%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$2,500 → $9,574
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
17 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 17 of 62 Title-IV institutions · Public 38 · Private 11 · For-profit 13
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
BY CITY
All 39 West Virginia cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Athens
- Beaver
- Beckley
- Bethany
- Bluefield
- Buckhannon
- Charles Town
- Charleston
- Clarksburg
- Cross Lanes
- Delbarton
- Dunbar
- Eleanor
- Elkins
- Fairmont
- Foster
- Franklin
- Glen Dale
- Glenville
- Huntington
- Institute
- Keyser
- Leroy
- Lewisburg
- Logan
- Martinsburg
- Moorefield
- Morgantown
- Mount Hope
- New Cumberland
- Oak Hill
- Parkersburg
- Princeton
- Salem
- Shepherdstown
- South Charleston
- Stollings
- West Liberty
- Wheeling
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.