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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (6,859 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$47,618
Cost-adjusted: $53,751
Median debt (completers)
$22,320
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 $47,618 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. The middle half of the students measured earn between $32,556 and $63,985 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $53,751. Completers leave with a median debt of $22,320 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. At 0.47, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

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
Education (13) 2019 1 $36,387 $47,046 $53,022
Education (13) 2016 1 $29,307 $45,273 $50,977
Education (13) 2013 1 $31,219 $42,177 $49,385
Education (13) 2010 1 $28,181 $38,416 $44,849
Education (13) 2007 1 $28,103 $38,315 $45,020
Education (13) 2004 1 $26,371 $35,591 $43,844
Education (13) 2001 1 $25,884 $36,598 $44,108
Education (13) 0000 1 $28,626 $39,855 $47,771
Education (13) 2016 5 $46,402 $50,007 $56,987
Education (13) 2013 5 $46,325 $52,891 $59,203
Education (13) 2010 5 $43,755 $49,688 $57,991
Education (13) 2007 5 $37,062 $45,557 $54,051

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 #1,638 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$97,000
20-year NPV
$424,000
40-year NPV
$911,000

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