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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (12,750 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$42,647
Cost-adjusted: $46,958
Median debt (completers)
$19,968
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.47
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 $42,647 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. With the 25th percentile at $26,153 and the 75th at $62,659, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $46,958, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Students who finish carry a median of $19,968 in debt. At 0.47, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.5%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
10.3%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
14.7%
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) 2016 1 $28,103 $32,972 $42,033
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $23,212 $28,634 $34,535
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $38,050 $46,435 $58,734
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 5 $36,903 $44,592 $52,636
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $36,674 $45,494 $58,363
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management (03.06) 2016 1 $28,103 $32,972 $42,033
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management (03.06) 0000 1 $23,212 $28,634 $34,535
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management (03.06) 2016 5 $38,050 $46,435 $58,734
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management (03.06) 2013 5 $36,903 $44,592 $52,636
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management (03.06) 0000 5 $36,674 $45,494 $58,363
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2019 1 $25,504 $36,412 $49,035
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 1 $24,420 $31,252 $37,394

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 #2,121 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$106,000
20-year NPV
$403,000
40-year NPV
$846,000

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