Bethel College-North Newton Nursing (BSN): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt

How it compares

Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Kansas and national columns are the medians across all nursing bachelor's programs that report the figure.

Five years out, Bethel College-North Newton graduates earn less than the national figure and about $16,089 less than the Kansas median. Several Kansas programs with higher debt show higher pay by the five-year mark.

Debt and first-year pay at every Kansas nursing program

Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Kansas medians.

Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.

Some nursing bachelor's programs are for nurses who are already licensed and working (RN-to-BSN). College Scorecard counts them with programs for new students, and their graduates' pay reflects years of nursing experience, so high pay at a program here may not mean higher starting pay for a new nurse.

What graduates earn over time

Pay falls about 15% between the first and fifth year. Registered nurses in Kansas earn a median of $79,320 across all experience levels, which shows how much room there is to grow after the first few years.

Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate. BLS figures cover registered nurses at every experience level.

Does family income change the outcome?

Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned about the same in their first year as other graduates. At this program, the outcome does not look worse for students with less money.

Paying back the loans

On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $286 a month, or 5.0% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.

The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.

Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth

78% of graduates (45 of 58) were working in Kansas one year after graduating. Prices in the Wichita area are about 11% below the national average, so a $68,369 salary here buys what about $76,866 buys in a typical US city.

The median Kansas RN earns $79,320, compared with a national median of $97,550. After adjusting for Kansas prices, that pay is worth about $88,067, which puts Kansas behind.

Careers this field leads to

These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to nursing, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.

About Bethel College-North Newton

Nursing ranks 1st of 2 bachelor's programs at Bethel College-North Newton by first-year earnings. The other is Business ($34,879).

Other nursing bachelor's programs near North Newton

Common questions

About this data

• Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
• Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
• Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
• Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Kansas comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
• Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
• School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the nursing program.

Sources

1. U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
4. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
5. NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024

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