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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (70,382 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$68,740
Cost-adjusted: $68,768
Median debt (completers)
$16,704
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.24
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 $68,740, an outcome that puts this school in the top tier for undergraduate earnings. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $44,790 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $95,794. Completers leave with a median debt of $16,704 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. At 0.24, debt sits well inside the range graduates can service without strain. A three-year default rate of 0.0% confirms borrowers here are managing their loans.

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 $29,704 $39,655 $51,728
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 1 $31,416 $46,116 $53,767
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 1 $29,769 $40,342 $52,508
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 1 $25,157 $36,215 $47,961
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 1 $28,680 $42,912 $54,875
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2004 1 $44,060 $51,071 $62,372
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $30,044 $42,793 $53,624
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 5 $49,855 $64,175 $79,157
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 5 $53,833 $66,619 $78,677
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 5 $56,295 $68,030 $79,861
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 5 $43,240 $58,427 $72,585
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2004 5 $51,576 $61,969 $68,476

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

10-year NPV
$174,000
20-year NPV
$624,000
40-year NPV
$1,295,000

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