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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (4,887 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$54,089
Cost-adjusted: $54,111
Median debt (completers)
$23,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.42
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 $54,089, near the middle of the national range. The middle half of the students measured earn between $36,112 and $75,178 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. Median debt among completers is $23,000, roughly the national norm. At 0.42, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest. Default tells the same story: 0.0% of borrowers default within three years, well under the national rate.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
0.8%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
4.7%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
16.3%
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
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 1 $34,351 $43,047 $66,779
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $29,263 $39,058 $46,511
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 5 $35,528 $51,929 $73,157
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 5 $41,217 $51,424 $66,184
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 1 $29,872 $40,342 $48,182
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 2016 5 $33,372 $47,119 $75,158
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 5 $39,884 $49,582 $63,134
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 1 $47,574 $64,930 $75,035
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 5 $55,464 $68,098 $110,564
Computer and Information Sciences, General (11.01) 0000 1 $47,574 $64,930 $75,035
Computer and Information Sciences, General (11.01) 0000 5 $55,464 $68,098 $110,564
Education (13) 2019 1 $37,454 $46,663 $54,580

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 #1,257 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$110,000
20-year NPV
$457,000
40-year NPV
$975,000

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