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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (2,473 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$39,318
Cost-adjusted: $40,833
Median debt (completers)
$15,039
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.38
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 $39,318, below the typical undergraduate outcome. The quartile range runs $19,732 to $59,937, typical for an undergraduate institution. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $40,833. Median debt among completers is $15,039, roughly the national norm. At 0.38, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.5%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
17.3%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
8.9%
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
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $26,890 $36,063 $43,722
Area Studies (05.01) 0000 1 $26,890 $36,063 $43,722
Education (13) 2019 1 $40,342 $47,283 $52,165
Education (13) 2016 1 $41,206 $45,075 $49,073
Education (13) 2013 1 $36,427 $42,833 $46,973
Education (13) 2010 1 $34,573 $42,505 $48,487
Education (13) 0000 1 $38,623 $44,319 $49,035
Education (13) 2016 5 $48,230 $53,971 $58,796
Education (13) 2013 5 $47,705 $54,342 $59,976
Education (13) 2010 5 $47,802 $53,892 $60,419
Education (13) 0000 5 $47,928 $54,083 $59,600
Education (13) 2010 10 $52,536 $59,535 $71,512

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 #2,807 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$152,000
20-year NPV
$391,000
40-year NPV
$747,000

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