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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (12,650 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$50,296
Cost-adjusted: $50,876
Median debt (completers)
$12,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.25
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 $50,296 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. That median masks a wide range, from $26,717 at the 25th percentile to $74,170 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. Debt at completion is low, a median of $12,500. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.25 means borrowing here is proportionate to the payoff. Default tells the same story: 0.0% of borrowers default within three years, well under the national rate.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.0%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
7.0%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
13.9%
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
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2019 1 $27,670 $38,509 $49,095
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 1 $26,371 $41,019 $51,223
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 1 $26,082 $37,592 $50,311
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 1 $23,771 $33,372 $58,363
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 1 $26,122 $38,875 $50,791
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 5 $46,728 $58,998 $74,301
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 5 $46,777 $63,610 $78,439
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 5 $41,695 $54,051 $76,015
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 5 $45,210 $58,574 $76,015
Agriculture, General (01.00) 2019 1 $27,670 $38,509 $49,095
Agriculture, General (01.00) 2016 1 $26,371 $41,019 $51,223
Agriculture, General (01.00) 2013 1 $26,082 $37,592 $50,311

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 #1,123 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$110,000
20-year NPV
$467,000
40-year NPV
$1,000,000

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