Private nonprofit · Community college
Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Cape Girardeau, Missouri · Small city
- 13%
- Transfer rate
- $19,390
- Avg net price
- 75%
- Grad / completion
- $60,918
- Median earnings
Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences is a private nonprofit associate-granting institution in Cape Girardeau, Missouri (small city setting), enrolling 200 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Cape Girardeau is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The "Cape" in the city name referred to a rock promontory overlooking the Mississippi River; it was later destroyed by railroad construction. As early as 1765, a bend in the Mississippi River, about 60 miles (97 km) south of the French village of Ste. Scenes for the film Gone Girl (2014), which is set in the fictional North Carthage, Missouri, were shot in Cape Girardeau. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Small city
- Highest degree offered
- Bachelor's
- Nearest big city
- 98 miles to St. Louis, MO
- To Great Lakes shore
- 321 miles
- Nearest airport
- 6 miles to Cape Girardeau (CGI)
How Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences compares
More selective than 10% · #11 most selective of 16 in Missouri
Higher than 34%
Higher than 70% · #29 of 70 in Missouri
Higher than 96% · #1 of 62 in Missouri
Cheaper than 35% · #46 cheapest of 68 in Missouri
Lower than 33%
Lower than 98%
Larger than 45%
Percentiles compare Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Missouri.
Student body
Undergraduates by gender
- Women17085%
- Men3015%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White85%
- Black8.0%
- Hispanic3.5%
- Asian1.5%
- Other or multiracial2.0%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 200
- Student–faculty ratio
- 4 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 42%
- First-generation students
- 48%
- Students over 25
- 52%
- Median family income
- $34,079
- Avg faculty salary (academic year)
- $58,788
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Cost
- In-state tuition
- $11,064
- Room & board
- —
- Books & supplies
- $1,704
- Total cost of attendance
- $24,592
- Average net price
- $19,390
Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.
Admissions
- Admission rate
- 100.0%
- Test scores
- Considered but not required
- SAT range (25th–75th %)
- —
- SAT average
- 1020
- SAT reading
- —
- SAT math
- —
- ACT composite
- 17–19
- Average GPA (estimated)
- 2.92
Outcomes
- Graduated (within 6 years)
- 75%
- Graduated on time (4 years)
- 0%
- First-year retention
- —
- Transferred to another college
- 13%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $60,055
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $60,918
- Median debt at graduation
- $11,500
- Students with federal loans
- 61%
- Paying down their loans (1 year in)
- 63%
About 75% of students who finish here need more than four years — each extra year adds roughly another year of tuition and living costs.
Graduating on time
By student background (4 years)
When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $50
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
What you'll actually pay, by family income
Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.
College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.
Four-year (or more) true cost
Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.
$14,197/year × about 5.5 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.
Is it worth it?
A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.
- Median earnings (10 years)
- $60,918
- Typical debt at graduation
- $11,500
- Debt vs. one year's pay
- 19%
- Out-earn a HS grad
- 86%
Typical debt would take roughly 1.9 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.
Graduates here tend to earn well relative to what they borrow — typical debt pays back fast, and most out-earn a high-school graduate.
Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.
The pay gap here
Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.
Men out-earn women by $13,005 (23%) a decade out.
Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 89°F
- Winter low
- 26°F
- Annual rain
- 47.9″
- Annual snow
- 7.5″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Cape Girardeau Muni AP, MO US station (5.5 mi from campus).
What Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences graduates study — and earn
Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.











