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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

Earnings across the first decade (P25 / median / P75)

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (6,927 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$44,372
Cost-adjusted: $43,059
Median debt (completers)
$19,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.44
3-yr default rate
0.0%
Borrowers who entered repayment in the published cohort year, not current students

College Scorecard. Earnings are measured ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike — not ten years after graduation.

Ten-year median earnings of $44,372 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. The middle half of the students measured earn between $28,262 and $64,019 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. Students who finish carry a median of $19,500 in debt. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.44, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin. Default tells the same story: 0.0% of borrowers default within three years, well under the national rate.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.9%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
12.9%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
14.6%
Q1 students reaching Q5

Opportunity Insights, students born 1980–1991 — a track record, not a forecast for today's entering class. The mobility rate is a share of all students (bottom-quintile origin and top-quintile outcome); the success rate is the share of bottom-quintile students alone who reach the top. They answer different questions and the second is always the larger number.

Earnings percentiles by field (Census PSEO)

One row per field and graduating cohort. Rows that share a field are different graduating classes, not repeats.

Field Graduating cohort Years after grad P25 Median P75
Education (13) 0000 1 $33,617 $41,019 $45,413
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (13.12) 0000 1 $33,617 $41,019 $45,413
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16) 0000 1 $26,493 $37,041 $44,249
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16) 0000 5 $36,215 $46,207 $55,778
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16) 0000 10 $47,574 $65,986 $79,787
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16.09) 0000 1 $26,493 $37,041 $44,249
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16.09) 0000 5 $36,215 $46,207 $55,778
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16.09) 0000 10 $47,574 $65,986 $79,787
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2016 1 $24,717 $31,905 $40,748
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 0000 1 $24,859 $32,188 $40,613
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2016 5 $38,509 $48,182 $62,818
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2004 5 $41,695 $51,929 $58,858

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients — earnings measured 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation, unlike the Scorecard figures above. The all-fields institution total is published separately and is not one of the rows above. A cohort label covers a pooling window of three or five graduating years, which PSEO does not publish per cell.

Independent ROI ranking

Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #2,520 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$85,000
20-year NPV
$369,000
40-year NPV
$792,000

Georgetown University CEW, Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)