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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (48,307 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$53,406
Cost-adjusted: $55,928
Median debt (completers)
$13,969
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.26
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.

A decade after entry the median student earns $53,406, near the middle of the national range. That median masks a wide range, from $26,332 at the 25th percentile to $85,303 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $55,928, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,969 — light enough that even modest earnings clear it quickly. The debt-to-income ratio of 0.26 is comfortable — debt is a small fraction of what graduates earn.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
0.8%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
4.1%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
18.2%
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
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2019 1 $28,546 $40,037 $56,700
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 1 $26,909 $40,703 $58,858
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 1 $27,237 $43,798 $55,577
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 1 $25,869 $38,692 $54,051
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 1 $27,360 $40,701 $56,382
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 5 $40,736 $57,075 $78,058
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 5 $44,700 $63,742 $82,785
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 5 $36,903 $56,069 $78,899
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 5 $40,518 $59,982 $80,378
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 10 $53,735 $81,043 $115,806
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 10 $53,735 $81,043 $115,806
Agricultural Business and Management (01.01) 2019 1 $38,509 $50,615 $62,224

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

10-year NPV
$151,000
20-year NPV
$522,000
40-year NPV
$1,075,000

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