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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (192,980 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$75,121
Cost-adjusted: $77,396
Median debt (completers)
$20,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.27
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 $75,121, an outcome that puts this school in the top tier for undergraduate earnings. The spread is wide — $50,527 at the 25th percentile against $116,556 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $77,396, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Median debt among completers is $20,500, roughly the national norm. The debt-to-income ratio of 0.27 is comfortable — debt is a small fraction of what graduates earn.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.2%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
5.0%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
44.5%
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
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2019 1 $52,513 $60,377 $67,789
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 1 $49,855 $61,789 $67,917
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 1 $49,171 $58,625 $68,911
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 1 $37,592 $51,223 $64,402
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 1 $43,820 $55,546 $70,584
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2004 1 $47,483 $59,353 $70,441
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2001 1 $50,539 $59,550 $67,570
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $47,552 $59,018 $68,130
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 5 $64,402 $75,689 $91,424
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 5 $63,970 $78,415 $94,204
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 5 $54,757 $72,928 $91,636
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 5 $57,175 $70,679 $86,016

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

10-year NPV
$178,000
20-year NPV
$688,000
40-year NPV
$1,449,000

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