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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (4,520 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$47,860
Cost-adjusted: $44,348
Median debt (completers)
$20,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.42
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 $47,860 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. With the 25th percentile at $28,303 and the 75th at $68,084, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. The cost-adjusted equivalent is $44,348, so the nominal salary overstates real purchasing power here. Completers leave with a median debt of $20,000 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.42 sits right at the threshold where borrowing starts to constrain choices.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.5%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
21.0%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
11.9%
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 $35,130 $42,888 $50,402
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 1 $32,393 $40,342 $50,802
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 1 $31,573 $40,067 $49,440
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 5 $38,092 $51,600 $65,410
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 5 $36,766 $47,939 $64,175
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 10 $43,433 $50,311 $67,570
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs (01.13) 2016 1 $35,355 $42,371 $51,694
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs (01.13) 0000 1 $28,598 $37,744 $46,815
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs (01.13) 2016 5 $39,998 $54,051 $68,203
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs (01.13) 0000 5 $37,179 $48,487 $68,928
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs (01.13) 0000 10 $45,171 $52,920 $71,728
Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians (01.83) 2019 1 $31,905 $38,895 $45,582

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 #2,112 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$98,000
20-year NPV
$398,000
40-year NPV
$847,000

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