Bachelor's · Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Is Accounting and Related Services at Southeast Missouri 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $58,229
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $75,047
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,420
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $73k (likely $73k – $97k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $36k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.7 years (likely 2.8–5.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $87k (likely −$17k – $211k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $530k (likely $302k – $793k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 61%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$78,407
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- Political Science and Government (Bachelor's)$66,799
- Agricultural Business and Management (Bachelor's)$63,078
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Bachelor's)$62,781
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$61,570
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- University of Missouri-Columbia$95,415
- Saint Louis University$90,963
- Truman State University$84,515
- Drury University$80,200
- University of Central Missouri$76,930
- University of Missouri-Kansas City$73,096
- Northwest Missouri State University$72,893
- University of Missouri-St Louis$72,635
- Missouri State University-Springfield$70,614
- Maryville University of Saint Louis$70,344