Sentara College
of Health Sciences
Private College in Chesapeake, VA. Median 10-year earnings $77,821.
Ten-year median earnings of $77,821 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Graduates carry a median of $19,450 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. At 7:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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 — 263 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 228 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
One gap to flag: this institution does not report an average net price, so the figures here describe who receives aid rather than what a year actually costs. Use the school's own net price calculator before comparing it against anywhere else. About 61% get grants averaging $6,644, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 62% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
Federal student loans went to 142 of these 228 students, totalling $1,300,930 — an average of $9,161 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Chesapeake City) — 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)