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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (3,371 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$43,582
Cost-adjusted: $41,208
Median debt (completers)
$25,755
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.59
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 $43,582 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $23,238 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $72,340. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is worth closer to $41,208 — the surrounding area is expensive enough to erode part of the headline figure. Median debt among completers is $25,755, roughly the national norm. At 0.59, graduates carry more debt than these earnings comfortably support.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.3%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
6.7%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
19.8%
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
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $24,204 $35,626 $44,173
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 5 $44,849 $53,107 $77,901
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 5 $54,404 $68,626 $85,137
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 5 $46,373 $64,666 $78,608
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 10 $78,215 $102,715 $123,770
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 10 $78,215 $102,715 $123,770
Environmental Design (04.04) 0000 1 $24,204 $35,626 $44,173
Environmental Design (04.04) 2013 5 $44,849 $53,107 $77,901
Environmental Design (04.04) 2010 5 $54,404 $68,626 $85,137
Environmental Design (04.04) 0000 5 $46,373 $64,666 $78,608
Environmental Design (04.04) 2010 10 $78,215 $102,715 $123,770
Environmental Design (04.04) 0000 10 $78,215 $102,715 $123,770

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 #1,582 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$71,000
20-year NPV
$411,000
40-year NPV
$919,000

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