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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (29,647 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$59,637
Cost-adjusted: $65,665
Median debt (completers)
$18,750
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.31
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 $59,637, near the middle of the national range. The spread is wide — $38,427 at the 25th percentile against $87,015 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $65,665 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Median debt among completers is $18,750, roughly the national norm. The debt-to-income ratio of 0.31 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) 2019 1 $27,237 $40,342 $58,065
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 1 $26,246 $39,517 $49,855
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 1 $28,969 $40,342 $53,647
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2010 1 $29,410 $38,692 $49,855
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2007 1 $28,969 $36,215 $51,223
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $27,894 $39,242 $52,703
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $36,491 $49,399 $64,402
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 5 $44,145 $56,524 $71,512
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2010 5 $43,216 $55,665 $71,850
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2007 5 $31,905 $51,223 $65,986
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $42,190 $53,597 $68,441
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2010 10 $51,537 $72,585 $95,590

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

10-year NPV
$139,000
20-year NPV
$532,000
40-year NPV
$1,119,000

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