Stephens College

Stephens College is a private, all female college in Columbia, MO. Admission is not quite selective, as the acceptance rate is 59%. It ranks #766 in America on our best overall colleges list. It is a very small institution with full-time enrollment of 569 undergrads. Stephens' most favored major is a Bachelor's in Medical Records Administration, which is selected by 18% of students. Other common choices include Fashion and Apparel Merchandising, which accounts for 13% of students, and Marketing (7%). It has an extremely high quality health care management program, ranking 12th in the USA. It also has the #1 theater program Missouri. What's more, Stephens College ranks 1st in Missouri on our best women's colleges list. For applicants with residences in Missouri, full price tuition costs $29,402 per year. Out-of-state students, however, must pay $32,497. Before you decide not to apply due to cost constraints, be conscious that the whole Stephens student body is awarded some grant or scholarship funding. 51% of Stephens College undergraduates graduate and enter the next act in their lives: professional life. Two years after school, alumni earn an average annual salary of $30,200. After four additional years in the labor force, the graduate's average annual earnings grows 12.3% to $33,900; however, that is still 15.5% below the national median salary for individuals. Applying students may want to be conscious of the fact that Rolling Admissions is the application deadline. Additionally, about 62% of first-year students continue to pursue their degrees the next year, and the student-faculty ratio is 9:1. On the subject of your savings account, be aware that 69% of undergraduates obtain financial aid through Pell grants. Our higher education experts rated Stephens a 7.98 for its professors and our college experts rated Stephens an 8.5 for its student housing. Lastly, the average Stephens student graduates with $7,850 per year of debt and the lowest-earning fourth of graduates rake in a starting salary of $20,500 or less.