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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
$72,379
Cost-adjusted: $65,371
Median debt (completers)
$25,949
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.36
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.

Median earnings reach $72,379 a decade after entry — strong in absolute terms and strong relative to peers. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $44,640 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $114,343. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is worth closer to $65,371 — the surrounding area is expensive enough to erode part of the headline figure. Median debt among completers is $25,949, roughly the national norm. At 0.36, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
6.4%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
21.2%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
30.1%
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.

Independent ROI ranking

Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #193 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$134,000
20-year NPV
$647,000
40-year NPV
$1,414,000

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