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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

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

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (12,167 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$63,756
Cost-adjusted: $63,782
Median debt (completers)
$23,250
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.

The ten-year median of $63,756 is the number that carries this profile. That median masks a wide range, from $38,482 at the 25th percentile to $91,183 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. Median debt among completers is $23,250, roughly the national norm. At 0.36, debt is serviceable but leaves graduates less room than the figures above suggest. A three-year default rate of 0.0% confirms borrowers here are managing their loans.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights)

Mobility rate
1.7%
Bottom → top quintile
Access Q1
5.6%
% from bottom quintile
Success rate Q1
30.8%
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 $23,771 $34,840 $50,311
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $39,310 $56,406 $74,301
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $23,771 $34,840 $50,311
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $39,310 $56,406 $74,301
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2019 1 $36,522 $49,855 $80,729
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 1 $33,005 $43,433 $52,920
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2013 1 $28,036 $36,903 $52,989
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2010 1 $28,103 $40,093 $55,464
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2007 1 $27,979 $40,342 $49,659
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 0000 1 $30,151 $42,292 $55,511
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2016 5 $51,929 $72,014 $102,996
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs (09) 2013 5 $46,948 $63,769 $82,614

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

10-year NPV
$98,000
20-year NPV
$500,000
40-year NPV
$1,100,000

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