Graduate certificate · Baltimore, Maryland

Is Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at Johns Hopkins University worth it?

Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.

The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans

Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.2 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating: Not enough graduates to report; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $97,915; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: $64,375; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published): $68k (likely $68k – $68k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $32k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MD; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 4.2 years (likely 2.5–9.2); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: $125k (likely −$62k – $354k); Today's dollars
20-year net return: $494k (likely $101k – $1000k); Today's dollars

Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.