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.
The ten-year median of $73,595 is the number that carries this profile. The spread is wide — $48,404 at the 25th percentile against $98,708 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is worth closer to $68,194 — the surrounding area is expensive enough to erode part of the headline figure. Completers leave with a median debt of $25,999 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. At 0.35, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.
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.