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Morningside College was awarded 8 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is special education.
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Morningside landed the #744 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
Out of the 37 colleges in Iowa, Morningside is ranked at #10.
The acceptance rate at Morningside College is 71%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that Morningside is a good fit for you.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Morningside College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Morningside College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Morningside College is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Morningside for first-time, full-time students is 49%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,281 undergraduates at Morningside with 1,157 being full-time and 124 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,924 | $23,014 | $22,488 | $24,352 | $25,729 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Morningside, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Morningside, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $8,610 a year. That adds up to $34,440 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Morningside are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1501 Morningside Ave, Sioux City, IA 51106-1751 |
| Phone: | 712-274-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.morningside.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Special Education | 133 | NA |
| General Education | 96 | NA |
| Nursing | 75 | $68,397 |
| Business Administration & Management | 64 | $45,637 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 41 | $45,552 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 33 | $48,478 |
| General Biology | 28 | $32,620 |
| Educational Administration | 27 | NA |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 12 | NA |
| Accounting | 11 | $60,752 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 1,103 students took at least one online class at Morningside College. This is a decrease from the 1,140 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,103 | 1,103 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,140 | 1,140 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,236 | 1,236 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,443 | 1,443 |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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