Morningside College Overview

Morningside College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sioux City, Iowa. The city atmosphere of Sioux City makes it a great place for students who enjoy having lots of educational and entertainment options.

What Is Morningside College Known For?

• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at Morningside.
• In 2017-2018, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Morningside makes roughly $43,700 a year. This is 7% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.
• The average Morningside student graduates in 4.1 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Morningside College Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Morningside.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#1	Most Popular Other Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Best Value Other Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#4	Best Value Special Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#7	Best Value Teacher Education Subject Specific Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#9	Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#12	Best Value Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#13	Best Value Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Most Popular Special Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#88	Most Popular Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Morningside has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#1	Best Value Colleges for Education/Teaching of Individuals with Emotional Disturbances	College Factual
#6	Best Value Colleges for Other Education	College Factual
#6	Best Value Colleges for Other Education	College Factual
#15	Best Value Colleges for Special Education	College Factual
#19	Best Value Colleges for General Special Education	College Factual
#26	Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Education	College Factual

Where Is Morningside College?

Contact details for Morningside are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1501 Morningside Ave, Sioux City, IA 51106-1751
Phone:	712-274-5000
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/morningside.edu
Twitter:	http://www.twitter.com/morningsideedu

How Do I Get Into Morningside?

You can apply to Morningside online at: https://www.morningside.edu/admissions/

Admission Requirements for Morningside

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Morningside?

With an acceptance rate of 69%, Morningside does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 44% of accepted students are men and 56% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 70%, and the acceptance rate for women is 68%.

About 0% of students accepted to Morningside submitted their SAT scores.Morningside received ACT scores from 0% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Morningside College?

The overall average net price of Morningside is $28,224. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

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 $8,478 a year. That adds up to $33,912 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Morningside is 6.2%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Morningside College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,281 undergraduate students at Morningside, with 1,157 being full-time and 124 being part-time.

There are also 1,130 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,157 full-time undergraduates at Morningside, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Morningside College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	12
Black or African American	41
Hispanic or Latino	94
White	798
International Students	64
Other Races/Ethnicities	148

Geographic Diversity

Iowa students aren't the only ones who study at Morningside College. At this time, 21 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 22 countries are represented at Morningside. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Germany, Brazil, and Japan.

Online Learning at Morningside College

In 2019-2020, 1,236 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Morningside has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 16th most popular in Iowa for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Morningside

The following table shows how Morningside is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Other Education	#49	#49

Online Growth Rankings of Morningside

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Morningside College was -5.9%. This is the #869 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Morningside regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of Morningside majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Education	13%
Health Professions	21%
Nursing	21%
Other Education	22%
Special Education	24%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Morningside ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Morningside.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Education	#89
Teacher Education Subject Specific	#211
Special Education	#221
Nursing	#347

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Morningside College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
Other Education	0	0	208	208
Special Education	9	0	112	121
Business Administration & Management	75	0	0	75
Nursing	28	2	42	72
General Biology	37	0	0	37
Teacher Education Grade Specific	26	0	0	26
Teacher Education Subject Specific	17	0	2	19
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	17	0	0	17
Other Social Sciences	14	0	0	14
Food Processing	13	0	0	13
Communication & Media Studies	11	0	0	11
Chemistry	11	0	0	11
Accounting	9	0	0	9
History	9	0	0	9
Fine & Studio Arts	8	0	0	8
Mathematics	6	0	0	6
General Psychology	6	0	0	6
Music	6	0	0	6
Computer Programming	5	0	0	5
Engineering Physics	4	0	0	4
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	4	0	0	4
Graphic Communications	3	0	0	3
Biopsychology	3	0	0	3
Child Development & Psychology	3	0	0	3
Political Science & Government	3	0	0	3
Design & Applied Arts	3	0	0	3
Drama & Theater Arts	3	0	0	3
Public Relations & Advertising	2	0	0	2
Romance Languages	2	0	0	2
Physics	2	0	0	2
General English Literature	1	0	0	1
Mathematics & Computer Science	1	0	0	1
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	1	0	0	1
Religious Studies	1	0	0	1
International Relations & National Security	1	0	0	1
Business/Corporate Communications	0	0	0	0
Management Information Systems	0	0	0	0
General Education	0	0	0	0
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	0	0	0	0
International Studies	0	0	0	0
Philosophy	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	344	2	364	710

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.