Virginia Western: The Value of a Good Education
Virginia Western provides quality educational opportunities that empower students for success and strengthen communities and is a forward-thinking Community College inspiring individual, community and economic transformation. Students enjoy better employment opportunities as a result
of their education at Virginia Western.
Students earn more because of the skills and qualifications
they acquire at VWCC. Further, employers earn
more because the added skills of the students they hire make
their businesses more productive.
Together, increases in earnings and business output stimulate
corresponding increases in income and employment
throughout the state. Over their working lives, Virginia
Western’s 2012-13 student population will generate a present
value of $737.4 million in added income in the state of
Virginia.
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