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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (11,446 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$72,273
Cost-adjusted: $69,924
Median debt (completers)
$22,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.31
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.

The ten-year median of $72,273 is the number that carries this profile. The spread is wide — $46,200 at the 25th percentile against $102,021 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is worth closer to $69,924 — the surrounding area is expensive enough to erode part of the headline figure. Median debt among completers is $22,500, roughly the national norm. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.31 means borrowing here is proportionate to the payoff.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
3.5%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
9.8%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
36.1%
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.

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) 2013 1 $43,948 $56,877 $76,015
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $30,731 $44,549 $55,935
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $50,539 $56,676 $66,144
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 10 $54,051 $77,273 $94,046
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2013 1 $43,948 $56,877 $76,015
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $30,731 $44,549 $55,935
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $50,539 $56,676 $66,144
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 10 $54,051 $77,273 $94,046
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $26,122 $37,012 $44,939
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 5 $40,680 $58,363 $72,156
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 10 $49,171 $63,451 $79,787
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 1 $26,122 $37,012 $44,939

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

10-year NPV
$198,000
20-year NPV
$703,000
40-year NPV
$1,457,000

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