Outcomes
Earnings across the first decade (P25 / median / P75)
Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (28,179 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.
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 $47,872, near the middle of the national range. That median masks a wide range, from $27,393 at the 25th percentile to $72,915 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $54,270 — 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 is 0.39, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.
Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)
Opportunity Insights, students born 1980–1991 — a track record, not a forecast for today's entering class. The mobility rate is a share of all students (bottom-quintile origin and top-quintile outcome); the success rate is the share of bottom-quintile students alone who reach the top. They answer different questions and the second is always the larger number.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2010 | 1 | $20,653 | $28,357 | $39,081 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2007 | 1 | $23,041 | $29,704 | $43,463 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2004 | 1 | $22,797 | $32,743 | $44,230 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2001 | 1 | $22,775 | $29,124 | $41,019 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 0000 | 1 | $22,584 | $30,541 | $42,371 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2010 | 5 | $30,764 | $44,173 | $61,926 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2007 | 5 | $28,584 | $39,119 | $59,391 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2004 | 5 | $32,639 | $49,109 | $67,782 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2001 | 5 | $35,558 | $49,171 | $68,626 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 0000 | 5 | $31,480 | $45,940 | $65,301 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2010 | 10 | $39,655 | $54,453 | $72,585 |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) | 2007 | 10 | $38,771 | $56,877 | $84,610 |
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 #1,148 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.
Georgetown University CEW, Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)