1, 2 In addition, 40% of veterinary students matriculating in the US with a projected graduation date of 2024 had already accrued debt from their undergraduate coursework, 2 and mean educational indebtedness acquired during the veterinary degree program by the 82% of graduates who left with debt at the end of the 2020 academic year was $178,585. In 2020, the cost of a 4-year veterinary education at accredited institutions in the US ranged from $170,742 to $289,597 for in-state residents and from $222,612 to $481,514 for nonresidents these numbers are anticipated to grow along with the overall rising costs of education. There is a price for higher education in the US, and veterinary medicine is no exception. In each graph, the solid line represents the Spearman correlation. Scatterplots of program annual salary versus annual living wage for clinical residency programs in small animal surgery, large animal surgery, small animal internal medicine, and emergency and critical care (left) and for small animal rotating internship programs (right). Scatterplots of annual salary and pretax income surplus for small animal rotating internship programs in academia (n = 21) versus private practice (120). *Values were significantly ( P < 0.05) different. Pretax income was calculated as annual program salary minus the required annual income, prior to taxes, for a living wage in the region where each program was located. In each graph, the long horizontal bar represents the median and the whiskers represent the interquartile (25th to 75th percentile) range. Scatterplots of annual salary and pretax income surplus for clinical residency programs in small animal surgery, large animal surgery, small animal internal medicine, and emergency and critical care in academia (n = 26) versus private practice (28).
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