undergradly.

Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (48,626 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$60,752
Cost-adjusted: $56,294
Median debt (completers)
$11,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.18
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 $60,752 is the number that carries this profile. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $31,888 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $87,936. Regional prices cut into it: cost-adjusted, the median is effectively $56,294. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,000 — light enough that even modest earnings clear it quickly. At 0.18, debt sits well inside the range graduates can service without strain.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
8.1%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
23.2%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
34.7%
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) 2019 1 $28,331 $41,288 $52,958
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2016 1 $26,997 $38,467 $53,225
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2013 1 $26,963 $36,674 $47,802
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 1 $27,622 $39,163 $51,052
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2004 1 $22,905 $33,372 $50,197
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $27,106 $38,904 $52,698
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2016 5 $40,922 $55,640 $73,872
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2013 5 $44,785 $56,720 $72,888
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 5 $36,903 $49,095 $61,147
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2007 5 $38,967 $65,986 $99,192
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 5 $41,019 $55,464 $73,891
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 10 $43,722 $67,570 $87,772

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

10-year NPV
$196,000
20-year NPV
$605,000
40-year NPV
$1,214,000

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