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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (1,284 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$30,497
Cost-adjusted: $32,530
Median debt (completers)
$34,290
Debt/earnings ratio: 1.12
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.

Median earnings ten years after entry are $30,497, below the typical undergraduate outcome. With the 25th percentile at $16,982 and the 75th at $43,521, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $32,530 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Debt at completion runs to a median of $34,290. At 1.12, graduates carry more debt than these earnings comfortably support.

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
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 0000 5 $36,903 $42,776 $48,258
English Language and Literature, General (23.01) 0000 5 $36,903 $42,776 $48,258
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (26) 2016 1 $21,518 $28,199 $39,425
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (26) 0000 1 $19,846 $26,274 $34,526
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (26) 2016 5 $26,587 $38,279 $65,194
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (26) 0000 5 $28,211 $38,967 $59,476
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (26) 0000 10 $32,639 $56,877 $79,787
Biology, General (26.01) 2016 1 $21,518 $28,199 $39,425
Biology, General (26.01) 0000 1 $19,846 $26,274 $34,526
Biology, General (26.01) 2016 5 $26,587 $38,279 $65,194
Biology, General (26.01) 0000 5 $28,211 $38,967 $59,476
Biology, General (26.01) 0000 10 $32,639 $56,877 $79,787

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 #3,830 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$37,000
20-year NPV
$254,000
40-year NPV
$577,000

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