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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (18,920 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$59,986
Cost-adjusted: $64,273
Median debt (completers)
$24,250
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.40
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.

A decade after entry the median student earns $59,986, near the middle of the national range. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $38,195 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $88,091. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $64,273. Median debt among completers is $24,250, roughly the national norm. At 0.40, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

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) 2016 1 $27,814 $34,840 $47,119
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2013 1 $26,852 $31,122 $34,351
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $25,606 $31,171 $36,118
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2013 5 $32,393 $41,019 $50,539
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 5 $34,351 $42,686 $51,086
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 2016 1 $27,929 $34,473 $46,777
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 1 $27,237 $32,743 $38,509
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 5 $36,078 $40,793 $50,767
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 1 $26,804 $39,884 $56,595
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 5 $30,143 $43,047 $55,261
Computer Software and Media Applications (11.08) 0000 1 $24,086 $30,227 $39,998
Computer Software and Media Applications (11.08) 0000 5 $26,989 $36,674 $48,487

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

10-year NPV
$121,000
20-year NPV
$530,000
40-year NPV
$1,141,000

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