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Morningside University
Private nonprofit, four-year or above, in Sioux City, Iowa.
Students and awards
From NCES’s 2025–26 IPEDS collection.
- 2,654
- Students enrolled during the year
- Everyone enrolled at any point in the 12 months, not fall enrollment.
- 1,238
- Undergraduates
- 1,416
- Graduate students
From NCES’s 2025–26 IPEDS collection.
- 303
- Bachelor's degrees awarded
- 0
- Associate's degrees awarded
- 251
- Master's degrees awarded
Graduation, admissions and price
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
- 50.0%
- Graduation rate
- 50.0%
- Bachelor's within six years
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
- 71.0%
- Applicants admitted
- 16.0%
- Admitted students who enrolled
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
- $39,660
- Tuition and fees
- $55,730
- Price in state, living on campus
- $55,730
- Price out of state, living on campus
Tuition and fees
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
Morningside University published $39,660 in in-state tuition and fees for 2024–25, against $35,270 for 2021–22
Published in-state tuition and fees for full-time, first-time undergraduates, each academic year, as the college reported them to NCES: the price before any grant, in the dollars of each year. All four years are from one IPEDS release, which restates the years before it.
Source: IPEDS
About this chart
The figures
| Academic year | In-district | In-state | Out-of-state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–25 | $39,660 | $39,660 | $39,660 |
| 2023–24 | $38,190 | $38,190 | $38,190 |
| 2022–23 | $36,610 | $36,610 | $36,610 |
| 2021–22 | $35,270 | $35,270 | $35,270 |
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| In-state tuition and fees | $39,660 |
| Books and supplies | $1,200 |
| Food and housing on campus | $11,650 |
| Other expenses on campus | $3,220 |
| Total, as NCES adds it | $55,730 |
The published price, before any grant or scholarship: what a student is charged, not what a student pays. Each NCES release restates the years before it, so all of these are from the one release.
Faculty pay
From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.
| Rank | Full-time staff | Average salary, nine-month basis |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 15 | $78,041 |
| Associate professor | 29 | $65,459 |
| Assistant professor | 19 | $65,400 |
| Instructor | 7 | $65,529 |
| All ranks | 70 | $68,146 |
Full-time, non-medical instructional staff as of November 1. NCES equates 10-, 11- and 12-month contracts to nine months and averages base salary only; supplements and stipends are excluded. Ranks are the college’s own, and the newest collection is provisional.
How this compares
- Students enrolled during the year: 2,654
- Larger than 70% of the 1,543 colleges in its sector (private nonprofit, four-year or above) that report an enrollment. Compared within its sector, because a two-year college and a research university are not the same kind of place.
- Graduation rate: 50%
- Higher than 35% of the 1,233 colleges in its sector (private nonprofit, four-year or above) that report one.
- Average faculty salary, all ranks: $68,146
- Higher than 50% of the 1,464 colleges in its sector (private nonprofit, four-year or above) in NCES's salary survey. Full-time instructional staff, equated to a nine-month contract.
What former students earn and owe
From the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, used under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Earnings are of students who received federal aid.
- $61,955
- Median earnings four years after completing
- $58,902
- Median earnings ten years after entering
- $25,000
- Median federal debt of graduates
- 0.0%
- Three-year default rate
The college’s entry
- Sector
- Private nonprofit, four-year or above
- Control
- Private nonprofit
- Grants degrees
- Yes
- Locale
- City, small
- County
- Woodbury County
- IPEDS ID
- 154004
Programs
47 programs in the College Scorecard’s field-of-study file, 11 with a page: those with a median for graduates’ earnings four years on or their federal debt. The rest are listed with their completions.
| Program | Completions | Median earnings, four years |
|---|---|---|
| Master's Degree in Special Education and Teaching | 99 | $61,726 |
| Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management and Operations | 59 | $61,940 |
| Master's Degree in Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods | 54 | Withheld for privacy |
| Master's Degree in Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | 34 | $99,896 |
| Bachelor's Degree in Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | 33 | $84,033 |
| Bachelor's Degree in Biology, General | 30 | $62,400 |
| Master's Degree in Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas | 24 | $64,996 |
| Bachelor's Degree in Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas | 23 | $56,166 |
| Bachelor's Degree in Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods | 20 | $50,717 |
| Bachelor's Degree in Agricultural and Food Products Processing | 14 | $66,368 |
| Master's Degree in Education, Other | 0 | $64,279 |
| Master's Degree in Education, General | 45 | Withheld for privacy |
| Master's Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision | 22 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice and Corrections | 15 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology | 12 | Withheld for privacy |
| Master's Degree in Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language | 12 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, General | 11 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming | 8 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Marketing | 7 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Related Services | 6 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Biopsychology | 6 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and Teaching | 6 | Withheld for privacy |
| Master's Degree in Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | 6 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry | 5 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Communication and Media Studies | 5 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in History | 5 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Religion/Religious Studies | 5 | Withheld for privacy |
| Doctoral Degree in Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | 5 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Design and Applied Arts | 4 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature, General | 3 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in International Relations and National Security Studies | 3 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Government | 3 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Other | 3 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Film/Video and Photographic Arts | 2 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Research and Experimental Psychology | 2 | Withheld for privacy |
| Graduate/Professional Certificate in Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | 2 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Education, General | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Fine and Studio Arts | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Music | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | 1 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions | 0 | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Information Sciences, General | — | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Physics | — | Withheld for privacy |
| Bachelor's Degree in International/Globalization Studies | — | Not available |
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved October 21, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
- College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data — U.S. Department of Education · retrieved October 15, 2026
U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, used under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).
Compiled automatically from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection and College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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