Outcomes
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 settle at $50,630 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. That median masks a wide range, from $28,995 at the 25th percentile to $80,715 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. A three-year default rate of 0.0% confirms borrowers here are managing their loans. That mobility figure comes from access as much as outcomes: 3.2% of students come from the bottom income quintile to begin with. The 40-year net present value from Georgetown CEW is $1,043,000, placing it 944 of 4,419 — worth more than the ten-year snapshot alone.
Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)
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.
Independent ROI ranking
Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #944 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.
Georgetown University CEW, Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)