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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (75,839 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$57,808
Cost-adjusted: $57,831
Median debt (completers)
$22,162
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.38
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 settle at $57,808 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. The spread is wide — $37,890 at the 25th percentile against $83,290 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Students who finish carry a median of $22,162 in debt. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.38, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin. Default tells the same story: 0.0% of borrowers default within three years, well under the national rate.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.6%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
5.4%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
30.3%
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 $19,425 $28,170 $39,752
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 1 $29,067 $38,416 $49,855
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 1 $22,385 $30,926 $43,497
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $23,177 $33,372 $46,808
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $44,398 $55,746 $72,585
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 5 $41,424 $52,354 $73,728
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $43,798 $55,604 $73,920
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2019 1 $19,425 $28,170 $39,752
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 1 $29,067 $38,416 $49,855
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2013 1 $22,385 $30,926 $43,497
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $23,177 $33,372 $46,808
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 5 $44,398 $55,746 $72,585

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

10-year NPV
$122,000
20-year NPV
$518,000
40-year NPV
$1,111,000

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