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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (27,782 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$50,741
Cost-adjusted: $52,278
Median debt (completers)
$19,500
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 $50,741 ten years after entry, close to the typical four-year result. The quartile range runs $34,234 to $71,388, typical for an undergraduate institution. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $52,278, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Completers leave with a median debt of $19,500 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.38, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
2.2%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
10.4%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
20.7%
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
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2019 1 $31,098 $42,146 $54,151
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 1 $28,237 $40,580 $53,578
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 1 $29,726 $42,087 $56,620
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 1 $29,530 $38,692 $52,186
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2007 1 $28,061 $40,748 $49,594
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2004 1 $25,687 $36,412 $54,365
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2001 1 $26,866 $40,093 $54,555
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 0000 1 $29,001 $40,842 $53,754
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2016 5 $42,114 $57,063 $74,178
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2013 5 $43,416 $60,761 $79,284
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2010 5 $47,592 $59,135 $77,712
Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields (01) 2007 5 $45,268 $57,471 $70,012

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 #1,226 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
$469,000
40-year NPV
$982,000

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