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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

College Scorecard institution medians at 1, 6 and 10 years after entry. The P25/P75 band is scaled from the 10-year percentile spread, not separately published at each horizon.

Median earnings · 10yr
$69,952
Cost-adjusted: $74,951
Median debt (completers)
$27,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.39
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 years after entry the median student earns $69,952, an outcome that puts this school in the top tier for undergraduate earnings. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $43,277 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $97,893. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $74,951 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Graduates who finish leave owing a median of $27,000, which is a lot to service. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.39, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.7%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
4.4%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
39.6%
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
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16) 2016 5 $42,235 $59,848 $94,989
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (16) 0000 5 $42,273 $62,818 $97,859
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2016 1 $34,473 $45,751 $65,986
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2013 1 $34,473 $52,920 $68,203
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 0000 1 $34,473 $49,627 $67,095
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2016 5 $46,532 $59,848 $89,880
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 2013 5 $48,114 $55,665 $80,258
English Language and Literature/Letters (23) 0000 5 $47,498 $57,124 $86,191
English Language and Literature, General (23.01) 0000 1 $31,252 $40,342 $59,105
English Language and Literature, General (23.01) 2016 5 $41,695 $51,223 $74,301
English Language and Literature, General (23.01) 0000 5 $44,398 $51,223 $62,446
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies (23.13) 0000 1 $46,435 $59,105 $84,259

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

10-year NPV
$147,000
20-year NPV
$624,000
40-year NPV
$1,335,000

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