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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (9,590 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$43,361
Cost-adjusted: $46,460
Median debt (completers)
$21,710
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.50
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.

Ten-year median earnings of $43,361 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. The middle half of the students measured earn between $22,336 and $65,135 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $46,460. Median debt among completers is $21,710, roughly the national norm. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.50 sits right at the threshold where borrowing starts to constrain choices.

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
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2019 1 $23,338 $30,143 $39,655
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $23,978 $32,492 $39,864
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 5 $35,184 $47,392 $60,927
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 10 $37,867 $55,935 $77,587
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 2019 1 $23,338 $30,143 $39,655
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 1 $23,978 $32,492 $39,864
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 5 $35,184 $47,392 $60,927
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 10 $37,867 $55,935 $77,587
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2016 1 $28,276 $41,424 $65,986
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2013 1 $27,929 $47,119 $60,342
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 1 $28,522 $42,336 $61,121
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2016 5 $45,751 $65,986 $86,367

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 #1,624 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$126,000
20-year NPV
$442,000
40-year NPV
$913,000

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