Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Private nonprofitSpecial Focus: Medical Schools/CentersSmall

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 95 peers in its group

Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences is a private nonprofit institution in Quincy, IL, classified by Carnegie as “Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers.”

It enrolls about 176 undergraduates and is benchmarked here against 95 peer institutions (Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private nonprofit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 70 out of 100 within that peer group, a transparent composite of endowment per undergraduate, net tuition revenue per student, and instructional spend per student.

Its strongest standing relative to peers is instructional spend / fte ($26,577, 94th percentile).

Its weakest is avg monthly faculty salary ($6,715).

Ibex's cross-metric scan flags: Undergrad enrollment down 31% since 2016.

Peer group

Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private nonprofit

95 institutions

Undergrad enrollment down 31% since 2016

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences is to the structural shifts reshaping higher ed: a composite structural-risk index plus the 2025 federal budget law’s endowment excise tax and Grad PLUS elimination and the demographic enrollment cliff. Only signals that apply to this institution are shown.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

-31.5%

Severe decline

Indicative signals, not forecasts — see each metric’s definition and the methodology. Endowment-tax and Grad PLUS figures appear only where the institution is actually exposed; “nationally” compares against all schools that report each signal.

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Revenue composition

Where the money comes from $9.1M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Hospital is the largest single source at 69% of revenue.

Hospital69.0%

Tuition & fees31.0%

Auxiliary enterprises0.0%

Where each dollar of revenue comes from, as a share of total positive revenue. Sources are standardized across public (GASB) and private (FASB) reporting; a net investment loss in a down market is shown as 0% and excluded from the mix.

Financial Health

Net tuition revenue / FTE

Average

$19,618

46th percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,254

Instructional spend / FTE

Strong

$26,577

94th percentile in peer grouppeer median $12,170

Avg monthly faculty salary

Below peers

$6,715

22nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $8,016

Average monthly salary of full-time faculty, as reported to IPEDS.

Tuition discount rate

Moderate

44.2%

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 2.4%

Institutional grant aid as a share of gross tuition & fee revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23, FASB): allowances applied to tuition ÷ (net tuition revenue + those allowances) — the tuition-discount rate enrollment leaders track, i.e. the share of sticker tuition handed back as institutional aid. Private nonprofit institutions only; public (GASB) institutions report tuition differently and are not shown. The national private-college average is roughly 56% (NACUBO); above ~60% signals heavy price competition.

Administrative cost share

38%

92nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 22.7%

Institutional support — central administration, executive management, governance, general administration, fundraising and (under FASB rules) operation & maintenance of plant — as a share of total expenses (IPEDS FY2022-23, FASB). Private nonprofit institutions only: public (GASB) institutions report functional expenses on a different basis and frequently consolidate large hospital and auxiliary operations, which makes a comparable ratio unreliable, so they are not shown. Because FASB folds plant operations into institutional support, this runs higher than a narrow 'central-office' figure, and schools with sizable hospital or auxiliary operations show a lower ratio as those costs enlarge total expenses. An informational benchmark of administrative intensity, compared within the peer group — not a measure of waste or quality.

Graduation & completion

Graduation rate · first-time, full-time

—

Not reported — this institution has no first-time, full-time bachelor's-degree cohort, so the graduation rate does not apply. See the all-students completion rate.

Completion rate · all students

71.8%

71.8% earned a degree or certificate within 8 years (IPEDS Outcome Measures)
The broader cohort — also counts part-time entrants and transfer-ins, and any credential. More inclusive, so it can run higher than the graduation rate.

Why two numbers? They measure different students over different windows, so they are not directly comparable. The graduation rate is the standard federal headline but tracks only first-time, full-time students through a bachelor's; the all-students completion rate adds the part-time and transfer students it leaves out, over a longer window. Read each for what it covers. Source: U.S. Department of Education — IPEDS Graduation Rates & Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard.

Enrollment & Pipeline

Undergraduate enrollment

176

34th percentile in peer grouppeer median 282

Pell recipient share

36.2%

54th percentile in peer grouppeer median 35.4%

12-month FTE enrollment

142

17th percentile in peer grouppeer median 492

Full-time-equivalent enrollment over the full 12-month year (IPEDS 12-month enrollment, 2022-23). Counts part-time students at their fractional load, so it runs above fall full-time headcount and is the denominator used for per-student finance measures.

Student-faculty ratio

10:1

80th percentile in peer grouppeer median 8:1

Students per instructional faculty member (IPEDS, fall 2023). Lower generally means smaller classes and more faculty contact, though the measure mixes undergraduate and graduate teaching and is institution-reported.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

Severe decline

-31.5%

— percentile in peer group

Projected change in the number of high-school graduates in the institution's HOME STATE from the class of 2025 (the national peak) to 2041, per WICHE's Knocking at the College Door, 11th Edition (Dec 2024). The 'enrollment cliff' is the post-2008 birth decline reaching college age; the U.S. total is projected to fall about 13% over this window. A college recruits from many states, so its home-state projection is an indicative directional signal of feeder-market pressure, not a forecast of that institution's own enrollment.

Completion rate (all students · 8-yr)

Average

71.8%

42nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 76.1%

Share of ALL entering degree-seeking undergraduates — full- and part-time, first-time and transfer-in — who earned a degree or certificate at this institution within eight years (IPEDS Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard). Broader and more inclusive than the graduation-rate figures, which count only first-time, full-time students entering a bachelor's program — so the two are measured on different groups of students and are not directly comparable.

Student body

Undergraduate race & ethnicity IPEDS 2024-25

White88.6%

Unknown4.5%

Black2.3%

Two or more races2.3%

Asian1.1%

Hispanic/Latino0.6%

American Indian/Alaska Native0.6%

Undergraduate enrollment by race and ethnicity, as reported to IPEDS (College Scorecard). “International” denotes nonresident students; “Unknown” means race/ethnicity was not reported.

Student Outcomes & Risk

Median earnings (10 yr)

Average

$72,430

61st percentile in peer grouppeer median $68,303

Median debt at graduation

Strong

$13,000

12th percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,000

3-yr cohort default rate

Average

2.8%

57th percentile in peer grouppeer median 2.5%

Share of borrowers who defaulted within three years of entering repayment (U.S. Dept. of Education official cohort default rate). Shown for the FY2017 borrower cohort — the most recent cohort whose full three-year default window closed before the 2020-23 federal student-loan payment pause. More recent cohorts are reported by the College Scorecard at essentially 0%, but that reflects the payment pause (no payments were due, so almost no one could default), not borrower health, so the pre-pause cohort is the last meaningful reading. Lower is better.

Share taking federal loans

35.1%

12th percentile in peer grouppeer median 64.2%

Full-time faculty share

Strong

94.4%

78th percentile in peer grouppeer median 62.7%

Debt-to-earnings ratio

Strong

0.18×

10th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.29×

Loan repayment rate (3-yr)

69.7%

53rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 67.6%

Share of student-loan borrowers who had repaid at least $1 of their loan principal within three years of entering repayment (College Scorecard, FY2024-25). Read it as context, not a simple good/bad score: a low rate can mean borrowers are struggling, but it can also mean many graduates have postponed payments while enrolled in graduate or professional school, which is common at selective schools and pushes their rate down. Unlike the cohort default rate, it is not distorted by the 2020-23 federal payment pause. Reported only where enough borrowers exist.

Top fields of study (bachelor's)

Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences’s largest fields by completions, with graduate earnings (4 years out) and debt benchmarked against the same field at its peer group. Sparklines show the 8-year completions trend.

Field	Completions / yr	Median earnings, 4 yrs out	Median debt	Earnings premium	Risk score
Health Professions & Clinical Sciences	53	$79,303 40th pct · 35 peers	—	Above benchmark +110%	Low · 30

All 1 top fields shown clear the IL state earnings-premium benchmark (indicative).

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the IL state median earnings of a high-school graduate (undergraduate credentials) or a bachelor’s-degree holder (graduate credentials) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2022 ACS 5-year). The official U.S. Department of Education determination uses its own cohort definition and may differ.

The risk score (0–100) is an indicative blend of earnings-premium margin and the five-year completions trend—higher means a field pays closer to (or below) the benchmark and is shrinking. A directional screen, not an official determination.

See the interactive dashboard for all fields and credential levels (associate through doctoral). Source: College Scorecard Field of Study.

Frequently asked

What is Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences's student-faculty ratio?

Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences reports a student-faculty ratio of 10:1 (IPEDS, fall 2023) — that is, about 10 students for every instructional faculty member.

How much do Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences graduates earn?

Median earnings ten years after entry are $72,430 (College Scorecard), measured across students who received federal aid.

Are Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences's programs at risk under the federal earnings-premium test?

Indicatively, at Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the single largest field with available earnings data clears the IL state earnings-premium benchmark used by the 2025 federal test (effective July 1, 2026) — median graduate earnings (four years out) exceed those of a typical worker without the credential. This is an estimate using College Scorecard earnings vs ACS medians; the official Department of Education determination may differ.

Which schools are Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences's peers?

Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences is benchmarked against 95 institutions in the Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private nonprofit peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.

Compare with peers

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Source: U.S. Department of Education — College Scorecard & IPEDS (most recent releases), with the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Projections, field-demand outlook) and WICHE (enrollment-cliff projections). Figures lag the current academic year by roughly two to three years. Percentiles and medians are computed within the institution's peer group. Financial Resilience is a transparent composite — see each component above. Compiled by Ibex Insights.