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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (43,902 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$58,561
Cost-adjusted: $62,233
Median debt (completers)
$20,909
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.36
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-year median earnings of $58,561 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. The quartile range runs $43,086 to $79,920, typical for an undergraduate institution. Regional prices work in graduates' favor here: the cost-adjusted equivalent of that median is $62,233. Students who finish carry a median of $20,909 in debt. At 0.36, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest.

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
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 1 $22,936 $30,304 $41,244
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 5 $28,276 $48,487 $57,619
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 5 $39,310 $48,349 $56,492
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 2010 10 $33,005 $51,929 $73,442
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies (05) 0000 10 $44,849 $62,158 $77,587
Area Studies (05.01) 0000 1 $27,237 $41,019 $60,590
Area Studies (05.01) 0000 5 $45,075 $50,311 $59,105
Area Studies (05.01) 0000 10 $51,576 $69,584 $78,608
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (05.02) 0000 1 $19,005 $24,810 $30,099
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (05.02) 0000 5 $37,592 $46,746 $54,453
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (05.02) 0000 10 $37,132 $58,150 $75,158
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2019 1 $28,208 $42,146 $50,355

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

10-year NPV
$135,000
20-year NPV
$525,000
40-year NPV
$1,107,000

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