Georgetown University — All Rankings Are Wrong

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Basic Information

Type Private

Geographical Reach National

Location Washington, DC

Population 4,500,000

Website http://www.georgetown.edu/

Weather

Comfortable Days 110 (71%)

Sunshine Hours 2,528 (38%)

Days Without Precipitation 252 (60%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 7,330

Men / Women 41% / 59%

From State 2%

From Region 13%

Athletes 11.7%

Racial/Ethnic

White 48%

Asian 16%

International 14%

Mixed 7%

Hispanic 6%

Black 5%

Native American 0%

Men in the Entering Class

Men

Entering Class by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of the full-time first-time degree-seeking cohort. Groups IPEDS reports separately — two or more races, and race unknown — are left out, so the lines don't sum to 100%.

Enrolled Undergraduates by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates, not just the entering class. Same excluded groups as above.

IPEDS Admissions (2011–2024), Graduation Rates (2011–2024) and 12-month Enrollment (2020–2025) surveys. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Schools & Majors

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Georgetown College	775	37% / 63%	6%	$85,588	81	94%
Computer Science	55 +9	47% / 53%	13%	$155,246	100	100%
Chemistry	7 —	57% / 43%	29%	$76,462	67	—
Mathematics	44 +8	64% / 36%	5%	$134,819	99	94%
Physics	14 —	43% / 57%	0%	$96,440	89	—
Biochemistry	8 —	38% / 62%	0%	$91,948	86	94%
Biology	38 —	34% / 66%	8%	$67,513	46	88%
Biophysics	5 —	60% / 40%	0%	$83,850	79	—
Environmental Biology	17 —	24% / 76%	6%	$66,913	44	—
Neurobiology	19 —	37% / 63%	5%	$71,469	56	—
Biology of Global Health	38 —	21% / 79%	0%	$67,513	46	88%
African American Studies	2 +1	0% / 100%	0%	$71,556	57	100%
American Studies	22 —	23% / 77%	5%	$88,566	83	94%
Anthropology	12 +1	33% / 67%	0%	$62,212	30	—
Arabic Language and Literature	— —	—	—	$66,165	42	—
Chinese	2 —	0% / 100%	0%	$66,564	43	—
Classics	8 +5	38% / 62%	0%	$72,448	59	—
Comparative Literature	2 —	0% / 100%	0%	$70,458	54	87%
English	41 +15	15% / 85%	2%	$76,609	67	97%
French	6 +2	33% / 67%	0%	$63,937	35	100%
German	2 —	0% / 100%	0%	$66,817	44	—
Government	153 +40	44% / 56%	5%	$82,877	77	93%
History	20 +8	50% / 50%	0%	$71,055	55	91%
Humanities	7 —	57% / 43%	0%	$114,459	97	96%
Interdisciplinary Studies	38 —	47% / 53%	13%	$81,636	76	—
Italian	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$63,937	35	100%
Japanese	2 —	50% / 50%	0%	$66,693	43	—
Justice and Peace Studies	14 +9	14% / 86%	7%	$69,096	50	95%
Korean	1 +1	0% / 100%	0%	—	—	—
Liberal Studies	33 —	61% / 39%	9%	$114,459	97	96%
Linguistics	20 +1	15% / 85%	15%	$70,458	54	87%
Medieval and Renaissance Studies	— —	—	—	$74,840	64	—
Philosophy	17 +5	53% / 47%	12%	$75,224	65	—
Psychology	69 +18	12% / 88%	3%	$67,624	46	94%
Russian	— +1	—	—	$66,213	42	—
Science, Technology and Society	2 —	0% / 100%	50%	—	—	—
Sociology	23 +2	35% / 65%	9%	$54,818	12	97%
Spanish	8 +7	50% / 50%	0%	$63,937	35	100%
Theology	6 +2	17% / 83%	0%	$66,597	43	—
Women's and Gender Studies	2 +3	0% / 100%	0%	$71,556	57	100%
Art History	10 +2	30% / 70%	10%	$58,176	19	—
Music	1 +1	0% / 100%	100%	$54,781	12	—
Studio Art	3 +4	33% / 67%	33%	$58,432	19	—
Theater and Performance Studies	3 —	33% / 67%	0%	$53,228	10	—

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
McDonough School of Business	328	62% / 38%	11%	$135,659	99	93%
Accounting	11 +37	36% / 64%	9%	$157,368	100	93%
Finance	223 +15	69% / 31%	9%	$145,611	100	91%
Management	26 +19	69% / 31%	0%	$90,765	85	94%
Marketing	31 +34	39% / 61%	16%	$102,750	93	97%
Operations and Analytics	37 +56	46% / 54%	27%	$128,344	99	100%

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
School of Health	90	19% / 81%	2%	$92,298	86	93%
Global Health	16 —	12% / 88%	6%	$69,094	50	100%
Health Care Management and Policy	29 —	14% / 86%	0%	$133,091	99	100%
Human Science	45 —	24% / 76%	2%	$74,260	63	86%

⇅	Trends	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
School of Nursing		25	4% / 96%	0%	$80,095	74	95%
Nursing		25 —	4% / 96%	0%	$80,095	74	95%

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Walsh School of Foreign Service	650	43% / 57%	28%	$89,000	84	91%
Global Business	51 +20	53% / 47%	6%	$108,755	96	93%
International Economics	185 +34	56% / 44%	35%	$111,824	97	88%
Culture and Politics	285 —	34% / 66%	35%	$77,411	69	93%
International Political Economy	57 +1	46% / 54%	11%	$82,877	77	93%
Science, Technology, and International Affairs	72 —	35% / 65%	14%	$67,091	44	—

Financial

Tuition & Fees $77,084

ROI Percentile 89th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 97%

4-Year Graduation Rate 87%

6-Year Graduation Rate 95%

Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Graduated

Students finishing within 150% of normal time. Each year labels the cohort that entered six years earlier — 2024 tracks the class that started in 2018.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Gender

Men Women

IPEDS reports the cohort as men and women only.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Race & Ethnicity

Asian Black Hispanic White International

Each group's completers over its own share of the entering cohort. Groups making up less than 2% of everyone this college graduated over the period are left off — their rates swing on a handful of students and read as noise.

IPEDS Graduation Rates survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

⇅	%	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Humanities & Social Sciences	52.0%	972	35% / 65%	15%	$77,321	69	93%
Business & Economics	31.7%	593	57% / 43%	17%	$125,784	99	92%
Life & Natural Sciences	4.7%	87	34% / 66%	6%	$71,446	56	89%
Health Sciences	4.2%	79	14% / 86%	1%	$71,815	57	92%
Physical Sciences & Math	3.5%	65	58% / 42%	6%	$120,268	98	94%
Computer Science	2.9%	55	47% / 53%	13%	$155,246	100	100%
Arts	0.9%	17	29% / 71%	18%	$57,148	16	—

Research R1

⇅	Research $	Rank	Federal	Industry $	PhDs	Rank	PhD students	Postdocs
Health Sciences	$200M	#44	56%	$18.7M	64	#26	8	7
Humanities & Social Sciences	$96.6M	#11	11%	$0.7M	67	#75	137	62
Computer Science	$21.0M	#49	14%	$0	6	#124	27	3
Life & Natural Sciences	$18.9M	#130	64%	$0.4M	44	#61	206	43
Business & Economics	$18.6M	#27	2%	$0	12	#110	79	—
Physical Sciences & Math	$17.4M	#143	44%	$0.1M	13	#159	103	28
Education	$1.1M	#229	0%	$0	—	—	—	—
Agriculture & Food Science	$0	#318	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Engineering	$0	#449	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Total	$373M	#79	39%	$19.9M	206	#109	560	143

Expenditure and funding source: NSF HERD, FY2024. Degrees: IPEDS completions, 2023–24. Students and postdocs: NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates, fall 2024, which covers science, engineering and selected health fields only. An em dash means the source does not report the figure, which is not the same as zero.

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes

Acceptance Rate 14%

Yield (Unbound) 44%

Restrictive Early Action Nov 1

Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

	In-State	Out-of-State	International
Regular Decision	20%	14%	8%

Early Action and Restrictive Early Action applicants are reported at the regular-decision rate.

Acceptance & Yield

Acceptance Yield

Applicants, Admitted & Enrolled

Applicants Admitted Enrolled

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Standardized Tests

Test Policy required

Submitted Test Scores 100%

SAT Range 1400 – 1530

SAT Math Range 700 – 780

SAT RW Range 710 – 760

SAT Composite

25th 75th

SAT Math

25th 75th

SAT Reading & Writing

25th 75th

Submitting a Test Score

Submitted

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line. Test-score submission adds SAT and ACT submitters, capped at 100% — a student can send both.