Outcomes
Earnings across the first decade (P25 / median / P75)
College Scorecard institution medians at 1, 6 and 10 years after entry. The P25/P75 band is scaled from the 10-year percentile spread, not separately published at each horizon.
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.
Ten-year median earnings of $31,399 trail most four-year institutions. The quartile range runs $16,986 to $49,632, typical for an undergraduate institution. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $35,351 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Access drives it — 22.8% of the student body starts in the bottom income quintile. Over a 40-year horizon, Georgetown CEW estimates a net present value of $706,000 (3,090 of 4,419 ranked).
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 #3,090 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)