Good Samaritan
College of Nursing and Health Science
Private College in Cincinnati, OH. Six-year graduation rate 73%. Median 10-year earnings $66,111.
Ten-year median earnings of $66,111 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 73% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $20,625, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.31 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 46%, the acceptance rate makes Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. The applicant pool is small at 223, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. Yield is high — 76% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 73% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Transfer-out runs to 27% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 9:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 457 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 457 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,570 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,891 at $0–30k, $24,269 at $110k+. 61% of students receive grant aid, averaging $7,843 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 74% take federal loans.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 21 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $17,891 |
| $30–48k | $14,532 |
| $48–75k | $13,724 |
| $75–110k | $23,704 |
| $110k+ | $24,269 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 339 of these 457 students, totalling $2,509,739 — an average of $7,403 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hamilton County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)