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Outcomes

Median earnings · 10yr
$34,162
Cost-adjusted: $39,294
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 $34,162 — low enough that cost and debt deserve extra scrutiny. The middle half of the students measured earn between $18,811 and $51,602 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $39,294 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Mobility is a genuine strength — 2.9% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top, a rate few institutions reach. Access drives it — 26.6% of the student body starts in the bottom income quintile.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.9%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
26.6%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
11.0%
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.

Independent ROI ranking

Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #3,295 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$151,000
20-year NPV
$358,000
40-year NPV
$667,000

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