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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

College Scorecard institution medians at 1, 6 and 10 years after entry. The P25/P75 band is scaled from the 10-year percentile spread, not separately published at each horizon.

Median earnings · 10yr
$25,113
Cost-adjusted: $23,270
Median debt (completers)
3-yr default rate
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.

A decade after entry, the median student earns $25,113 — low enough that cost and debt deserve extra scrutiny. With the 25th percentile at $16,502 and the 75th at $49,740, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is worth closer to $23,270 — the surrounding area is expensive enough to erode part of the headline figure. 7.2% of students climb from the bottom income quintile to the top, which is what an engine of mobility actually looks like. Access drives it — 61.0% of the student body starts in the bottom income quintile.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
7.2%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
61.0%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
11.8%
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.

Independent ROI ranking

Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #4,308 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$42,000
20-year NPV
$202,000
40-year NPV
$440,000

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