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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (8,499 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$61,106
Cost-adjusted: $61,961
Median debt (completers)
$23,770
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.39
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.

Median earnings reach $61,106 a decade after entry — strong in absolute terms and strong relative to peers. With the 25th percentile at $43,058 and the 75th at $81,211, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. Median debt among completers is $23,770, roughly the national norm. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.39 sits right at the threshold where borrowing starts to constrain choices. Default tells the same story: 0.0% of borrowers default within three years, well under the national rate.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.5%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
4.7%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
31.9%
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
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $26,764 $37,041 $44,249
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $32,088 $59,452 $67,570
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $26,764 $37,041 $44,249
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $32,088 $59,452 $67,570
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $30,681 $41,695 $47,666
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 5 $41,019 $52,165 $89,880
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 10 $45,413 $72,585 $89,880
Area Studies (05.01) 0000 5 $38,967 $49,659 $108,603
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (05.02) 0000 1 $39,793 $44,478 $64,402
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (05.02) 0000 5 $45,979 $64,402 $78,215
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 1 $30,856 $37,935 $48,761
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2013 1 $34,107 $46,663 $56,272

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

10-year NPV
$118,000
20-year NPV
$523,000
40-year NPV
$1,128,000

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