Southeast Missouri
Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Private College in Cape Girardeau, MO. Six-year graduation rate 75%. Median 10-year earnings $60,918.
A decade after enrolling, the median Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences student earns $60,918 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate of 75% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $11,500.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.19 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 75% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 100% of applicants are accepted. Only 15 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. A 100% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 33% of enrolled first-years submitted an ACT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
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 | 17–19 | 5 (33%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences →Academics
A 75% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Transfer-out runs to 13% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 4:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 146 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 146 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $19,390 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $14,197 at $0–30k, $21,987 at $110k+. 67% of students receive grant aid, averaging $7,054 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 61% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 9 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 | $14,197 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | $26,092 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | $21,987 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 89 of these 146 students, totalling $686,746 — an average of $7,716 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cape Girardeau 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)