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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

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

Median earnings · 10yr
$55,939
Cost-adjusted: $62,502
Median debt (completers)
$22,500
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.40
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 $55,939 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. The spread is wide — $35,542 at the 25th percentile against $84,067 at the 75th — so the median hides very different outcomes depending on major and path. On a cost-of-living-adjusted basis the median is worth $62,502, a meaningful premium over the nominal number. Completers leave with a median debt of $22,500 — unremarkable for a four-year degree. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.40 sits right at the threshold where borrowing starts to constrain choices.

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
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 0000 1 $21,336 $29,458 $38,279
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 0000 5 $40,793 $53,243 $74,729
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 0000 10 $39,104 $51,929 $74,986
Graphic Communications (10.03) 0000 1 $21,336 $29,458 $38,279
Graphic Communications (10.03) 0000 5 $40,793 $53,243 $74,729
Graphic Communications (10.03) 0000 10 $39,104 $51,929 $74,986
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2019 1 $36,903 $59,848 $77,587
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2004 1 $54,051 $65,986 $107,201
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 1 $43,170 $57,434 $73,157
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 2004 5 $49,855 $69,154 $92,787
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 5 $62,322 $80,472 $97,992
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (11) 0000 10 $78,529 $107,824 $134,767

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 #678 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
$541,000
40-year NPV
$1,122,000

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