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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (2,794 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$57,165
Cost-adjusted: $61,250
Median debt (completers)
$25,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.44
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-year median earnings of $57,165 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. With the 25th percentile at $38,069 and the 75th at $82,880, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $61,250. Completers leave with a median debt of $25,000 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.44, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.0%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
4.2%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
47.0%
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
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $26,804 $34,840 $45,210
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 5 $41,424 $56,877 $66,338
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 1 $26,804 $34,840 $45,210
Communication and Media Studies (09.01) 0000 5 $41,424 $56,877 $66,338
Computer and Information Sciences, General (11.01) 0000 1 $38,692 $55,464 $64,175
Education (13) 2016 1 $35,298 $43,588 $49,171
Education (13) 2013 1 $30,731 $43,670 $52,508
Education (13) 0000 1 $35,145 $44,502 $52,265
Education (13) 2016 5 $46,692 $50,368 $60,095
Education (13) 2013 5 $46,093 $53,202 $61,332
Education (13) 0000 5 $46,803 $53,485 $62,224
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (13.12) 2013 1 $27,886 $43,047 $52,107

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

10-year NPV
$99,000
20-year NPV
$497,000
40-year NPV
$1,092,000

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