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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (6,121 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$50,074
Cost-adjusted: $49,529
Median debt (completers)
$27,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.54
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 $50,074 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. With the 25th percentile at $32,037 and the 75th at $72,086, outcomes here are about as varied as anywhere else. Debt at completion runs to a median of $27,000. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.54 sits right at the threshold where borrowing starts to constrain choices. Only 0.0% of borrowers default within three years — graduates are repaying.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.3%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
8.1%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
15.8%
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
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $25,721 $33,372 $42,878
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $25,721 $33,372 $42,878
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2019 1 $33,739 $42,371 $64,402
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 1 $25,504 $36,215 $41,244
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2010 1 $26,921 $35,069 $43,722
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2007 1 $24,971 $32,492 $44,398
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2004 1 $23,929 $33,861 $46,435
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2001 1 $23,524 $36,412 $44,939
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $25,209 $35,445 $45,525
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 5 $44,398 $52,479 $66,619
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2013 5 $43,948 $52,165 $61,332
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2010 5 $35,528 $56,406 $72,776

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 #1,857 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$65,000
20-year NPV
$392,000
40-year NPV
$881,000

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