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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (6,546 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$75,001
Cost-adjusted: $72,388
Median debt (completers)
$23,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.31
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.

The ten-year median of $75,001 is the number that carries this profile. That median masks a wide range, from $46,471 at the 25th percentile to $120,051 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. The cost-adjusted equivalent is $72,388, so the nominal salary overstates real purchasing power here. Completers leave with a median debt of $23,500 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. At 0.31, debt sits well inside the range graduates can service without strain.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.6%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
3.1%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
50.9%
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
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $34,840 $45,751 $55,935
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 5 $61,332 $78,709 $98,792
Architecture and Related Services, Other (04.99) 0000 1 $34,840 $45,751 $55,935
Architecture and Related Services, Other (04.99) 0000 5 $61,332 $78,709 $98,792
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2016 1 $34,840 $48,487 $58,065
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2013 1 $45,903 $50,919 $56,092
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $39,517 $49,445 $56,406
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2016 5 $53,578 $70,298 $96,190
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2013 5 $52,636 $72,585 $89,616
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 5 $35,036 $51,694 $70,184
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 5 $45,525 $64,523 $87,244
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 10 $61,827 $76,015 $99,994

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 #169 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
$645,000
40-year NPV
$1,445,000

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