Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Cape Girardeau, MO · Private · 200 undergrads · website ↗

Test-optional
$50 application fee

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

12.5%

of students transfer to a four-year institution

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$14,197
$30,000 – $48,000	—
$48,000 – $75,000	—
$75,000 – $110,000	—
Over $110,000	$21,987
All incomes (average)	$19,390

Sticker tuition and fees: $11,064 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$10,336
Books and supplies	$1,656
Other expenses, off campus	$7,656

Outcomes

Completion rate: 75%
Students with Pell grants: 43%
Earnings @ 10yr: $60,918
Median debt: $11,500

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Test-optional
Application fee: $50
Students per faculty member: 4 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 100%
Open admission: No

Middle 50% of test scores, fall 2024

25th to 75th percentile of enrolled first-year students who submitted scores. A quarter scored below the first figure and a quarter above the second. Section ranges can't be added together into a total-score range.

SAT Reading and Writing: —
SAT Math: —
ACT composite: 17–19

What students study

Health & Nursing100%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	44	$68,723	$77,931national $80,813	$20,000

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 9 more programmes at this college have every figure suppressed and are not listed.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in MO

Saint Louis Community CollegeBridgeton25.4%Ozarks Technical Community CollegeSpringfield12.8%Cox CollegeSpringfield0%St Louis College of Health Careers-FentonFenton0%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 2001 William Street, Cape Girardeau, MO 63703-4507
Phone: (573) 334-6825 ext. 2202
Institutional accreditor: Higher Learning Commission

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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