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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (41,765 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$64,270
Cost-adjusted: $62,368
Median debt (completers)
$20,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.32
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 $64,270, an outcome that puts this school in the top tier for undergraduate earnings. The spread is wide — $40,026 at the 25th percentile against $93,795 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Completers leave with a median debt of $20,500 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. At 0.32, debt sits well inside the range graduates can service without strain. Only 0.0% of borrowers default within three years — graduates are repaying.

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 $31,818 $45,273 $55,568
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 1 $35,233 $44,160 $59,848
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $32,797 $44,478 $56,212
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 5 $56,106 $65,986 $77,044
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 5 $56,225 $65,986 $76,285
Architecture (04.02) 2016 1 $36,215 $44,669 $61,036
Architecture (04.02) 0000 1 $35,792 $44,129 $60,144
Architecture (04.02) 2016 5 $55,060 $65,614 $75,265
Architecture (04.02) 0000 5 $55,464 $65,710 $75,072
Architectural Sciences and Technology (04.09) 2019 1 $31,818 $45,273 $55,568
Architectural Sciences and Technology (04.09) 0000 1 $31,497 $44,754 $55,514
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $23,029 $32,883 $41,424

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

10-year NPV
$154,000
20-year NPV
$590,000
40-year NPV
$1,241,000

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