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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (3,825 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$35,171
Cost-adjusted: $39,297
Median debt (completers)
$12,570
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 $35,171 trail most four-year institutions. The middle half of the students measured earn between $18,143 and $55,301 ten years after entry — a normal spread, so the median is a fair expectation. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $39,297, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Median debt among completers is only $12,570, which changes the arithmetic considerably. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.36, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

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
Education (13) 2019 1 $32,639 $39,072 $46,497
Education (13) 2016 1 $29,557 $37,041 $42,812
Education (13) 2013 1 $24,926 $33,005 $43,858
Education (13) 2010 1 $27,670 $33,861 $43,892
Education (13) 2007 1 $23,041 $29,886 $39,655
Education (13) 2004 1 $19,898 $26,852 $37,179
Education (13) 2001 1 $18,393 $24,637 $35,298
Education (13) 0000 1 $24,180 $32,538 $42,465
Education (13) 2016 5 $42,146 $46,883 $50,279
Education (13) 2013 5 $46,555 $48,862 $51,170
Education (13) 2010 5 $43,948 $47,802 $50,710
Education (13) 2007 5 $43,047 $48,015 $51,753

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 #2,858 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$152,000
20-year NPV
$388,000
40-year NPV
$740,000

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