Bachelor's · Joplin, Missouri
Is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at Missouri Southern State University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $80,066
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $81,617
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,874
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $46k (likely $46k – $63k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $43k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.5 years (likely 1.2–2.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $196k (likely $109k – $284k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $614k (likely $457k – $787k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 39%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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