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Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion Career Outcomes & Earnings

Updated September 30, 2026

How much do Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion graduates earn?

The reported median is $68,838 four years after completion. The peer comparison uses $55,915 as its benchmark; the difference is $12,923 per year.

Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion posts earnings that exceed both 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 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.

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.

Graduate study changes how the four-year earnings figure should be read. An estimated 29.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.

Because the earnings measure includes people working and not enrolled, it does not cover those continuing their education.

Median earnings · four years after completion: $68,838
Rank for difference from expectations: 95th percentile

Four-year median earnings against two benchmarks

Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion reported median: $68,838
Peer schools comparable schools · $12,923 below Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion: $55,915
Model expectation what similar students would be expected to earn · $18,916 below Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion: $49,922

School and program earnings use pooled 2017–18 and 2018–19 completion cohorts, measured in 2022 and 2023 and expressed in 2024 dollars. How the model works.

How could earnings differ from the median?

Earnings four years after completion

Planning rangeReported median

Lower estimate: $47,005
Median · reported: $68,838
Higher estimate: $84,157

Downside shows a lower-earning scenario based on the college’s mix of programs; upside shows a higher-earning scenario. Typical is the school’s reported median four years after completion. These are planning scenarios, not a forecast of your salary or percentiles of individual graduates.

Why the downside matters explores the risk hidden by medians, using older ten-year entrant data. Read about the move to four-year earnings.

Do Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion graduates earn more than expected?

Azimuth models what we would expect graduates to earn based on who the college enrolls, how selective it is and its local economy. The difference between that expectation and reported earnings is what Azimuth calls value added.

Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion graduates’ reported earnings are $18,916 above that expectation, the 95th percentile for this measure. Unlike a peer comparison, it adjusts for who enrolls.

The breakdown separates the contribution attributed to observed factors from the remaining difference. Neither component establishes how much attending Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion caused a student to earn. Read how expected earnings are estimated.

Which fields at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion report the highest earnings?

At Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, the program picture separates higher-earning nursing and business fields from more moderate teacher education and psychology fields four years after completion. Nursing had median earnings of $84,157 and 133 degrees awarded, making it the largest of these programs.

Business Administration and Management recorded $75,533 with 47 degrees awarded. At the more moderate end, Teacher Education posted $47,578 across 52 degrees awarded, while Psychology had $43,781 and 39 degrees awarded.

The spread shows that four-year earnings vary substantially by field at the university.

Program earnings vary widely at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, with 16 bachelor’s fields carrying published earnings data. Nursing is the largest listed field, with 133 degrees awarded and median earnings of $84,157 four years after completion.

Business Administration and Management awarded 47 degrees and shows $75,533 at the same point. Teacher Education awarded 52 degrees, with median earnings of $47,578 four years after completion; Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries awarded 49 degrees and shows $45,693. Those differences make field choice central to the earnings picture here.

Highest reported four-year program earnings

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing: $84,157
Business Administration, Management and Operations: $75,533
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication: $71,669
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences: $70,907
Finance and Financial Management Services: $70,007
Accounting and Related Services: $67,767
Marketing: $64,077
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities: $52,784

Explore Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion program cohorts and field ranks for more context.

Further analysis

Field choice shapes the modeled earnings range at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion: program-mix scenarios put the downside at $47,005, the typical scenario at $68,838, and the upside at $84,157. Nursing anchors the upper end at $84,157 four years after completion, whereas Psychology, the lowest-earning of the largest programs, is at $43,781.

That spread shows how modeled outcomes vary by field rather than describing observed groups.

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.

Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: methodology.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.