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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (89,792 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$55,076
Cost-adjusted: $59,368
Median debt (completers)
$23,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.42
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 $55,076, near the middle of the national range. The spread is wide — $34,102 at the 25th percentile against $84,230 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $59,368 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Completers leave with a median debt of $23,000 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. At 0.42, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
0.8%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
2.8%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
28.1%
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) 2019 1 $25,998 $43,588 $60,442
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 1 $21,368 $26,930 $45,751
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 1 $21,101 $27,582 $37,592
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2010 1 $29,913 $39,310 $51,828
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2007 1 $26,371 $36,805 $48,258
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2004 1 $23,193 $39,425 $66,514
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $24,874 $36,124 $54,353
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $42,201 $55,665 $72,341
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 5 $37,592 $58,574 $77,387
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2010 5 $43,347 $63,874 $93,733
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2007 5 $43,047 $55,935 $73,347
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2004 5 $48,682 $64,402 $94,148

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

10-year NPV
$90,000
20-year NPV
$501,000
40-year NPV
$1,114,000

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