Private nonprofit · Community college

Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Cape Girardeau, Missouri · Small city

#1 for grad earnings in Missouri
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.

Private nonprofitSmall · 200 undergradsSmall cityOpen admissionCold winters

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
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

Selectivity100.0%

More selective than 10% · #11 most selective of 16 in Missouri

SAT average1020

Higher than 34%

Graduation rate75%

Higher than 70% · #29 of 70 in Missouri

Earnings, 10 years after entry$60,918

Higher than 96% · #1 of 62 in Missouri

Average net price$19,390

Cheaper than 35% · #46 cheapest of 68 in Missouri

Median debt at graduation$11,500

Lower than 33%

Student–faculty ratio4 : 1

Lower than 98%

Undergraduate enrollment200

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

200undergrads
  • 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)

All students
0%
Low-income (Pell)
66%

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.

< $30k
$14,197
$30–48k
$48–75k
$75–110k
$110k+
$21,987

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.

Est. total to a degree
$78,084

$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.

Strong value

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.

Women
$56,866
Men
$69,871

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

HighLow
20°60°100°JFMAMJJASOND

Average precipitation (inches)

0.02.65.3JFMAMJJASOND

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Cape Girardeau Muni AP, MO US station (5.5 mi from campus).

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.