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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (20,341 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$65,865
Cost-adjusted: $62,278
Median debt (completers)
$21,974
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.33
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 $65,865, an outcome that puts this school in the top tier for undergraduate earnings. That median masks a wide range, from $38,650 at the 25th percentile to $101,088 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. The cost-adjusted equivalent is $62,278, so the nominal salary overstates real purchasing power here. Completers leave with a median debt of $21,974 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. The debt-to-income ratio of 0.33 is comfortable — debt is a small fraction of what graduates earn.

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
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 1 $29,520 $39,163 $56,029
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $29,520 $39,163 $56,029
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $44,398 $69,644 $79,157
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $44,398 $69,644 $79,157
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 1 $29,520 $39,163 $56,029
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $29,520 $39,163 $56,029
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 5 $44,398 $69,644 $79,157
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $44,398 $69,644 $79,157
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2016 1 $30,681 $43,047 $80,729
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2013 1 $31,905 $44,849 $58,363
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 1 $29,336 $40,944 $48,487
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $30,356 $42,596 $55,464

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 #455 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
$572,000
40-year NPV
$1,202,000

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