Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion posts earnings that exceed both the model’s expectation and the median for comparable institutions. Graduates earn about $18,916 more than the model expects for similar students.
Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, is in the 95th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $4,061.
The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain adds $14,855. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 87th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $68,838 four years after completion, in the 74th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $55,915, with the university $12,923 above it. Above-expected earnings and an above-peer median point in the same direction.
Among federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled, Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion reports a median of $68,838 four years after completion. That median is $12,923 above the $55,915 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The university sits at the 74th percentile for earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions, from a cohort of 3,058 completers. Graduates earn about $18,916 more than the model expects for similar students.
That outcome is at the 95th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix run from $47,005 on the downside to $84,157 on the upside, with $68,838 as the typical outcome.
An estimated 29.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.
Return is the strongest Azimuth pillar for Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, where federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $68,838 four years after completion. Azimuth places that earnings figure in the 74th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $55,915; the university stands $12,923 above it. Graduates earn about $18,916 more than the model expects for similar students.
Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, sits in the 95th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $4,061.
The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain adds $14,855. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $325.
Earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix run from $47,005 in the downside scenario to an upside scenario that coincides with Nursing’s program median. Azimuth ranks the university #194 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The peer comparison and modeled gap both point upward. Nursing is both the largest named field and the highest-earning listed field, with 133 degrees awarded in an academic year and median earnings of $84,157 four years after completion.
Business Administration and Management recorded 47 degrees awarded and $75,533 in median earnings, while Teacher Education recorded 52 degrees awarded and $47,578. Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries adds 49 degrees awarded with median earnings of $45,693 four years after completion.
These large fields show that the school-level earnings figure sits alongside materially different outcomes across programs.
Program mix leaves a wide modeled range around the school-level earnings picture. The downside earnings scenario is $47,005, and the upside scenario is $84,157; these scenarios describe modeled outcomes rather than observed groups of graduates.
Among higher-earning fields, median earnings four years after completion are $75,533 in Business Administration and Management, $71,669 in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, and $70,907 in Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences. Those published field medians sit toward the upper part of the modeled range.
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion pairs debt below its peer median with earnings beyond the model’s expectation. Among borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $24,250.
The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $25,000, and the university’s figure is below it by $750. That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $276 a month if repaid over ten years.
Graduates earn about $18,916 more than the model expects for similar students. Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, is a modeled comparison.
Average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $22,866. Across family-income bands, average net prices are $19,793 in the lowest band, $14,896 in the next band, $18,313 in the middle band, $22,336 in the upper-middle band, and $27,265 in the highest band.
Aid covers about 49% of the published cost for the average aid recipient. Debt below peers and higher-than-expected earnings point in the same direction.