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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (86,984 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$57,289
Cost-adjusted: $60,733
Median debt (completers)
$21,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.38
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 settle at $57,289 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. That median masks a wide range, from $38,026 at the 25th percentile to $83,186 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $60,733. Median debt among completers is $21,500, roughly the national norm. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.38, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.6%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
6.5%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
25.0%
Q1 students reaching Q5

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
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2019 1 $29,990 $35,626 $46,663
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 1 $30,216 $37,958 $56,288
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 1 $27,237 $40,536 $54,436
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 1 $28,474 $40,759 $55,621
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 1 $33,225 $49,171 $62,520
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2004 1 $33,804 $46,924 $62,818
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2001 1 $32,172 $46,967 $56,877
Architecture and Related Services (04) 0000 1 $30,764 $41,787 $56,539
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2016 5 $61,121 $69,808 $80,895
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2013 5 $57,301 $69,154 $79,459
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2010 5 $55,653 $66,461 $81,168
Architecture and Related Services (04) 2007 5 $46,708 $62,181 $74,502

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

10-year NPV
$125,000
20-year NPV
$518,000
40-year NPV
$1,104,000

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