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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (3,001 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$40,956
Cost-adjusted: $42,201
Median debt (completers)
$16,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.39
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.

A decade after entry, the median student earns $40,956 — low enough that cost and debt deserve extra scrutiny. With the 25th percentile at $27,152 and the 75th at $65,875, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $42,201, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Median debt among completers is $16,000, roughly the national norm. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.39 sits right at the threshold where borrowing starts to constrain choices.

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
Education (13) 2016 1 $28,276 $34,840 $40,793
Education (13) 2013 1 $27,503 $36,322 $44,398
Education (13) 2010 1 $26,170 $34,211 $44,263
Education (13) 2007 1 $24,962 $31,905 $38,233
Education (13) 2004 1 $23,944 $32,324 $43,539
Education (13) 0000 1 $25,634 $33,476 $42,175
Education (13) 2016 5 $43,170 $46,994 $50,849
Education (13) 2013 5 $38,279 $44,737 $55,464
Education (13) 2010 5 $31,905 $41,244 $50,477
Education (13) 2007 5 $32,455 $40,660 $51,627
Education (13) 2004 5 $33,861 $40,018 $49,979
Education (13) 0000 5 $34,727 $42,751 $51,083

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 #2,759 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$84,000
20-year NPV
$353,000
40-year NPV
$755,000

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