Program Payoff

Salem University

Salem, West Virginia. 8 certificate and associate programs, private, for-profit. 8 of them report what graduates earn; for the rest, the figure below is what the occupation pays in West Virginia.

ProgramCredentialMedian debtGraduates earnThe occupation pays
Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants Undergraduate certificate $31,848 (12) $36,720
Nursing Assistants
Business Administration, Management and Operations Associate's degree $23,649 (25) $82,500
General and Operations Managers
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing Associate's degree $22,030 not published $80,130
Registered Nurses
Biology, General Associate's degree not published $56,610
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Computer and Information Sciences, General Associate's degree not published $107,140
Computer Occupations, All Other
Criminal Justice and Corrections Associate's degree not published $28,800
Security Guards
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities Associate's degree not published $65,260
Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods Associate's degree not published $55,630
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

"Graduates earn" is the median two years after completing, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10; the number in brackets is how many graduates it covers. A dash means the Department has not published a figure — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates — and never that the figure is zero. "The occupation pays" is the state median for the occupation the program leads to, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, and describes everyone in that job rather than graduates of this school.