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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (98,898 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$60,543
Cost-adjusted: $58,751
Median debt (completers)
$20,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.33
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 reach $60,543 a decade after entry — strong in absolute terms and strong relative to peers. The spread is wide — $40,471 at the 25th percentile against $88,212 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Median debt among completers is $20,000, roughly the national norm. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.33 means borrowing here is proportionate to the payoff. A three-year default rate of 0.0% confirms borrowers here are managing their loans.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.1%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
3.2%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
35.4%
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 $30,141 $40,055 $54,404
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 1 $26,554 $38,365 $53,677
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 1 $27,446 $39,336 $51,052
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 1 $25,525 $34,996 $47,255
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2007 1 $26,233 $36,336 $52,098
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2004 1 $25,926 $37,685 $50,333
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2001 1 $25,430 $36,553 $49,974
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 1 $26,830 $37,787 $51,572
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 5 $42,822 $57,537 $75,736
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 5 $43,739 $58,568 $78,452
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 5 $38,745 $53,964 $69,644
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2007 5 $37,768 $51,424 $71,948

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

10-year NPV
$128,000
20-year NPV
$542,000
40-year NPV
$1,159,000

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