Master's · Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Is Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Southeast Missouri State University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $56,778
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $77,164
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,286
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $25k (likely $25k – $25k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5 years (likely 2.7–13.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$29k (likely −$168k – $132k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $213k (likely −$84k – $552k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at other schools in Missouri
- Avila University$65,443
- Missouri University of Science and Technology$63,876
- University of Central Missouri$60,825
- Missouri State University-Springfield$58,979
- University of Missouri-St Louis$58,181
- Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences$57,976
- Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies$57,976
- Webster University$54,077
- Evangel University$48,001
- Covenant Theological Seminary$42,610