Outcomes
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.
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.
A decade after entry, the median student earns $41,307 — low enough that cost and debt deserve extra scrutiny. The middle half of the students measured earn between $20,516 and $63,178 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $47,025, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Graduates leave owing a median of $14,250 — light enough that even modest earnings clear it quickly. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.34 means borrowing here is proportionate to the payoff.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 2016 | 1 | $59,848 | $83,557 | $119,554 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 2013 | 1 | $57,124 | $75,525 | $101,251 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 2010 | 1 | $50,539 | $65,986 | $97,992 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 0000 | 1 | $54,051 | $74,545 | $105,799 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 2016 | 5 | $70,870 | $96,791 | $116,180 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 2013 | 5 | $69,841 | $90,933 | $120,396 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services (43) | 0000 | 5 | $61,545 | $87,447 | $115,402 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other (43.99) | 2016 | 1 | $59,848 | $83,557 | $119,554 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other (43.99) | 2013 | 1 | $57,124 | $75,525 | $101,251 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other (43.99) | 2010 | 1 | $50,539 | $65,986 | $97,992 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other (43.99) | 0000 | 1 | $54,051 | $74,545 | $105,799 |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other (43.99) | 2016 | 5 | $70,870 | $96,791 | $116,180 |
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 #1,632 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.
Georgetown University CEW, Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)