Randolph-Macon College English (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in English Language and Literature, General
- Private nonprofit college
- Ashland, VA
- About 7 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Randolph-Macon College English graduates earn about what English graduates earn nationally, $27,110 in their first year. Debt is high. The typical graduate leaves with $26,922 in federal loans, more than at 78% of English programs in the country. Several Virginia programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Virginia and national columns are the medians across all English bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Randolph-Macon College graduates earn about the national figure but about $4,140 less than the Virginia median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Virginia English program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Virginia medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 74% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $285 a month, or 12.6% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
Prices in the Richmond area are about 2% below the national average, so a $27,110 salary here buys what about $27,703 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to English, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
$72,170Median pay in Virginia. 31,100 people work in this job in Virginia. Nationally, jobs are projected to stay about the same in number from 2025 to 2035, with about 63,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Proofreaders and Copy Markers
$48,090Median pay in Virginia. 90 people work in this job in Virginia. Nationally, jobs are projected to shrink 1% from 2025 to 2035, with about 1,100 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About Randolph-Macon College
English ranks 9th of 9 bachelor's programs at Randolph-Macon College by first-year earnings. The top three are Business ($51,366), Accounting ($49,557), and Computer and Information Science ($43,825).
Other English bachelor's programs near Ashland
Common questions
The median graduate earns $27,110 one year after graduating and $47,262 five years after. The median across English bachelor's programs in Virginia is $31,715.
The median federal loan balance is $26,922, which ranks 12th lowest of 16 English bachelor's programs in Virginia. That works out to about $285 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 99% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 77%. Compare the cost with other Virginia programs before deciding.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Virginia comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the English program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024