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Virginia Tech co-op salaries

• Virginia Tech Undergraduate Cooperative Education & Internship Program, first work-term salaries:
  Virginia Tech co-ops' 1st term salaries
• Students who enroll with the Virginia Tech Undergraduate Cooperative Education & Internship Program are asked to provide salary data for their first work terms.
  • Engineering majors account for over 90% of enrollees in the co-op program.
  • Business majors account for around 5% of enrollees.

Virginia Tech bachelor's graduate salaries and bonuses

• Salaries reported by bachelor's degree graduates:
  Virginia Tech Post-Graduation Report: Bachelor's degree graduates' salaries by university, college and major.
  • Data from our annual survey of Virginia Tech graduates' about their first jobs, employers, salaries, and more.
  • The survey closes six months following commencement, and the report is published the winter following commencement. Data is not released preliminary to the report's publication.
  • To see changes year to year, you can view 5-year salary data medians by college (PDF).
  • In cases where insufficient data exists for a major, you may wish to contact the department head for that major to see what information is known to the academic department.
• Bonuses reported by bachelor's degree graduates:
  Virginia Tech Post-Graduation Report: Bonuses reported, by college and major.
  • Of the latest cohort of employed respondents:
    • 31% of employed grads reported receiving a bonus with employment offer
    • 27% reported the actual dollar amount of the bonus
    • Median bonus reported $3,000
    • These statistics variable, of course, by college and major
    • Details in P-G Report cited

National data on new graduate salaries

• NACE, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, collects salary data on new college graduates. As a NACE member, we receive: NACE Salary Snapshot information.
  This NACE data is shown with permission, and is one of the resources to which we direct students for salary research.
• As a NACE member we also receive a more detailed print report with salary data breakdowns by curriculum and employer industry. Contact us and we can share information from that report with you.
• NACE also provides more detailed salary information online to subscribers. Data based on the NACE (National Association of Colleges & Employers) quarterly Salary Survey reports. Learn more about NACE salary reports and how to receive them.

Comprehensive salary information available to all

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