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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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.

Median earnings · 10yr
$39,115
Cost-adjusted: $37,752
Median debt (completers)
$25,150
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.64
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 $39,115 trail most four-year institutions. The middle half of the students measured earn between $17,742 and $57,365 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is worth closer to $37,752 — the surrounding area is expensive enough to erode part of the headline figure. Students who finish carry a median of $25,150 in debt. At 0.64, graduates carry more debt than these earnings comfortably support.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
0.9%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
8.6%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
10.6%
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
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 5 $25,793 $39,655 $77,430
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 5 $25,793 $39,655 $77,430
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, Fitness, and Kinesiology (31) 0000 1 $20,163 $29,458 $35,940
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, Fitness, and Kinesiology (31) 0000 5 $34,840 $44,398 $61,332
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (31.05) 0000 1 $20,163 $29,458 $35,940
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (31.05) 0000 5 $34,840 $44,398 $61,332
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) 2019 1 $30,437 $41,695 $57,372
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) 2013 1 $27,670 $44,849 $95,590
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) 0000 1 $25,669 $34,840 $52,839
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) 2016 5 $48,144 $61,827 $85,664
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) 0000 5 $45,451 $57,867 $79,157
Criminal Justice and Corrections (43.01) 2019 1 $30,018 $40,883 $54,522

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 #3,175 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$9,000
20-year NPV
$283,000
40-year NPV
$691,000

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