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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (115,921 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$63,199
Cost-adjusted: $65,113
Median debt (completers)
$17,527
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.28
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.

Ten years after entry the median student earns $63,199, an outcome that puts this school in the top tier for undergraduate earnings. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $41,572 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $91,958. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $65,113 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Students who finish carry a median of $17,527 in debt. At 0.28, debt sits well inside the range graduates can service without strain.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.6%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
9.3%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
27.9%
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
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $39,655 $59,253 $72,585
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $39,655 $59,253 $72,585
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2019 1 $29,520 $44,624 $55,840
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 1 $34,399 $48,227 $59,353
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 1 $37,274 $45,999 $57,448
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 1 $31,473 $42,100 $53,013
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 1 $41,535 $53,243 $64,314
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2004 1 $43,596 $55,131 $65,753
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2001 1 $40,769 $51,789 $63,927
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $38,072 $49,751 $61,625
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 5 $61,728 $69,061 $78,183
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 5 $55,653 $68,545 $81,671

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

10-year NPV
$158,000
20-year NPV
$568,000
40-year NPV
$1,181,000

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