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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (96,404 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$63,403
Cost-adjusted: $69,812
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.

Median earnings reach $63,403 a decade after entry — strong in absolute terms and strong relative to peers. That median masks a wide range, from $42,277 at the 25th percentile to $90,496 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $69,812, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Students who finish carry a median of $20,500 in debt. At 0.32, debt sits well inside the range graduates can service without strain.

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
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2019 1 $32,682 $43,352 $58,273
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 1 $30,918 $46,086 $61,556
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 1 $32,429 $45,184 $60,330
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 1 $29,531 $40,989 $56,731
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2007 1 $28,450 $44,030 $57,248
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2004 1 $28,442 $40,654 $55,898
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 1 $30,746 $43,730 $59,160
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 5 $48,313 $62,681 $89,500
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 5 $47,876 $66,162 $90,082
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 5 $44,502 $62,158 $91,284
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2007 5 $42,263 $59,699 $86,861
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2004 5 $44,864 $58,547 $79,682

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

10-year NPV
$149,000
20-year NPV
$577,000
40-year NPV
$1,216,000

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