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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (29,134 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$49,652
Cost-adjusted: $51,156
Median debt (completers)
$21,250
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.43
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 $49,652 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. The middle half of the students measured earn between $30,901 and $73,800 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $51,156, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Median debt among completers is $21,250, roughly the national norm. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.43, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.9%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
13.6%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
21.4%
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 $40,793 $49,118 $63,170
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $57,075 $76,015 $107,201
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 10 $60,908 $80,729 $113,482
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $40,793 $49,118 $63,170
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $57,075 $76,015 $107,201
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 10 $60,908 $80,729 $113,482
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $24,493 $31,252 $38,355
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 5 $35,920 $47,705 $64,854
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 10 $41,695 $62,818 $79,787
Interior Architecture (04.05) 0000 1 $24,493 $31,252 $38,355
Interior Architecture (04.05) 0000 5 $35,920 $47,705 $64,854
Interior Architecture (04.05) 0000 10 $41,695 $62,818 $79,787

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 #1,417 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
$450,000
40-year NPV
$946,000

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