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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (12,565 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$87,054
Cost-adjusted: $85,113
Median debt (completers)
$27,000
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 $87,054 is the number that carries this profile. That median masks a wide range, from $63,919 at the 25th percentile to $122,404 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. Median debt among completers is $27,000 — a heavy balance to carry into those earnings. The debt-to-income ratio of 0.31 is comfortable — debt is a small fraction of what graduates earn. A three-year default rate of 0.0% confirms borrowers here are managing their loans.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
0.9%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
2.0%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
45.6%
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
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $31,171 $43,497 $55,868
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 5 $65,081 $76,015 $154,543
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 10 $83,557 $101,595 $143,232
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 10 $83,557 $101,595 $143,232
Area Studies (05.01) 0000 5 $59,253 $67,254 $98,392
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2019 1 $58,363 $80,729 $97,271
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 1 $56,524 $80,918 $94,019
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 5 $85,664 $118,711 $151,716
Computer Science (11.07) 2019 1 $58,363 $80,729 $97,271
Computer Science (11.07) 0000 1 $56,524 $80,918 $94,019
Computer Science (11.07) 0000 5 $85,664 $118,711 $151,716
Education (13) 2019 1 $32,305 $48,809 $59,538

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

10-year NPV
$111,000
20-year NPV
$633,000
40-year NPV
$1,414,000

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