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Southeastern Oklahoma State University

OKMedium public institution · Overall rank #389 nationally

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Azimuth ranks Southeastern Oklahoma State University #389 among 1,467 nonprofit four-year institutions.

Who it’s a good fit for

Southeastern Oklahoma State University is a public university in Durant, Oklahoma, where Business and Liberal Arts & General Studies account for the largest shares of degrees. Affordability is among the highest we track.

Graduates earn less than predicts for students like them. The model attributes an addition to the factors it measures — field of study, enrollment and the local labor market — and a subtraction to the remainder it cannot explain.

Return is modestly below average. Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate above the overall six-year graduation rate, and access is above average.

The lowest income band averages a net price well below the published cost, while the highest band pays a figure that is still modest. The admission rate is below the median for comparable institutions.

Most graduates are estimated to go into work rather than further study, and the largest programs are not the best-paid ones.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University at a glance

Admissions and outcomes

Admission rate[1]
76.4%
Six-year completion[2]
31.5%
Four-year earnings[3]
$56,329

Cost and family borrowing

Average annual net price · $48–75K family income[6]
$8,247
Median student debt[4]
$17,000
Median Parent PLUS debt[7]
$12,095

Southeastern Oklahoma State University rankings: how Azimuth assesses value[5]

Southeastern Oklahoma State University enrolls 3,018 undergraduates as a public university in Durant, Oklahoma. Its position falls in the upper third of nonprofit four-year institutions (74th percentile).

Admissions are open: Southeastern Oklahoma State University accepts 76.4% of applicants, against a median of 85.9% at comparable institutions (same type and size). Of students who start full time, 63.4% come back for a second year; the peer median is 73.7%.

The six-year graduation rate for the first-time, full-time cohort is 31.5%, well below the peer median of 49.1%. An estimated 49.6% of entrants arrive as transfers or part-time students, so that rate describes a minority of the people who study here.

The four sit far apart. Affordability is the strongest, at the 96th percentile, while return is the weakest, at the 36th percentile. Access and mobility fall between them, at the 74th and 51st percentiles.

Affordability is the strongest pillar for Southeastern Oklahoma State University. It sits at the 96th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Access follows at the 74th percentile. Mobility sits near the midpoint at the 51st percentile, and return is the weakest of the four at the 36th percentile.

The profile is one of a public university where cost is low and access is broad, but the earnings picture four years out is more measured.

The middle 50% of submitted SAT scores stretched from 980 to 1,186, and the middle 50% of ACT scores from 18 to 24. Pell recipients account for 41.6% of undergraduates.

For access, Azimuth places Southeastern Oklahoma State University at #378 among nonprofit four-year institutions. Pell recipients finish at 38.5% within six years, exceeding the entering cohort's overall rate (31.5%) by 7.0 percentage points.

For mobility, Azimuth ranks the university #713 among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $1,448 less than the model expects for similar students.

How value-added outcomes are assessed · How to interpret program rankings

Southeastern Oklahoma State University rankings in context
GeographyRank
National#389

Azimuth overall value rankings within each geographic comparison group.

National pillar percentiles

Economic mobility
National percentile: 51
Access & reach
National percentile: 74
Affordability
National percentile: 96
Return on investment
National percentile: 36

Top-ranked majors

  1. Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians#8
  2. Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods#62
  3. Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities#73

This school’s three highest-ranked programs nationally. Each rank compares bachelor’s programs in the same field; field sizes differ.

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Southeastern Oklahoma State University cost & financial aid[6][7]

Affordability is the strongest pillar at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and the published cost of attendance is $18,594. For in-state students, tuition and fees are $7,530, with room and board at $7,760.

Out-of-state students face tuition and fees of $16,740. Across all aid recipients, the average net price is $8,039, which is $6,029 below the $14,068 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Financial aid reduces the published cost by $10,555 on average. Azimuth ranks the university #61 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The published cost of attendance at Southeastern Oklahoma State University is $18,594. Azimuth ranks the university #61 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions.

After grants and scholarships, the average net price for aid recipients from families earning under $30,000 is $5,193, for those earning $48,001 to $75,000 it is $8,247, and for those earning over $110,000 it is $13,570. The spread between the lowest and highest bands is $8,377.

Aid covers about 57% of the published cost for the average aid recipient. The across all aid recipients is $8,039, which is $6,029 below the $14,068 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Borrowers who finish carry a median of $17,000 in federal student loans. That is $4,229 below the peer median of $21,229.

About 63.3% of federal aid recipients take federal loans. Parents who borrow hold a separate median of $12,095.

If repaid over ten years, the median federal debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $193 a month. It estimates what a family might pay based on their own circumstances.

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Reported average annual net price · $48–75K$8,247

After grants and scholarships. Your aid offer may differ.

Averages within each income band; individual aid packages vary.

Borrowing and repayment at Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Median federal student debt at Southeastern Oklahoma State University is $17,000 for borrowers who complete a degree. That figure is $4,229 below the $21,229 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

63.3% of federal aid recipients take federal loans. Parents who borrow through the Parent PLUS program hold a separate median of $12,095.

Four years after completing a degree, Southeastern Oklahoma State University graduates earn a median of $56,329, which sits at the 37th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. That figure is $972 below the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Graduates earn about $1,448 less than the model expects for similar students, a measure of earnings beyond expectations that compares actual pay to what a model predicts for similar students. That result places the university at the 50th percentile for .

Earnings scenarios, estimated from the program mix, show a typical outcome of $56,329, with a downside of $42,173 and an upside of $76,447. Borrowers who complete a degree leave with a median of $17,000 in federal loans, $4,229 below the $21,229 median for comparable institutions.

If repaid over ten years, that debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $193 a month.

For the separate population of parent borrowers, median Parent PLUS borrowing is $12,095. For student borrowers, the median federal debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $193 a month if repaid over ten years.

How Financial GPS measures payment burden · The four risk-and-reward zones

Financial GPS

What does repayment look like?

Institution median student debt
$17,000
Institution Parent PLUS debt
$12,095

Federal loans only; private or institutional loans aren’t included.

Estimated student payment · monthly
$193/mo
Estimated Parent PLUS payment · monthly
$154/mo

Payments use school-wide median balances, not a specific major’s.

Payment assumptions

Payments are 10-year standard payments on the median balance, before loan fees, used as a yardstick. Rates for newly issued loans may differ, and loans made after July 1, 2026 can repay over a longer term; existing loans keep their original fixed rates.

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Southeastern Oklahoma State University career outcomes & earnings[3][8][9]

Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $56,329, in the 37th percentile nationally. That is $972 below the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Azimuth places the return pillar in the 36th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $1,448 less than the model expects for similar students.

That gap sits at the 50th percentile. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $2,074.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $3,522. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $1,371.

At Southeastern Oklahoma State University, the median earnings four years after completion stand at $56,329 for federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled. That figure is $972 below the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Graduates earn about $1,448 less than the model expects for similar students. The earnings cohort behind these figures numbers 793 completers.

Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix put the typical outcome at $56,329, with a downside scenario of $42,173 and an upside scenario of $76,447. An estimated 23.2% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.

Federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn $56,329 four years after graduation at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. That median is at the 37th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions and sits $972 below the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Azimuth ranks the university #933 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $1,448 less than the model expects for similar students.

That result is at the 50th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $2,074.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $3,522. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $1,371.

Degrees are concentrated in Business, Liberal Arts & General Studies, and Engineering Technologies, with smaller showings in fields such as Computer and Information Sciences and Psychology. Earnings scenarios, estimated from the program mix, span from $42,173 on the downside to $76,447 on the upside.

An estimated 23.2% of graduates continue on to graduate study, based on the program mix.

The earnings scenarios run from $42,173 on the downside to $76,447 on the upside, a range tied to the program mix. At the higher end, Computer and Information Sciences graduates earn $95,825 four years after completion, from 8 degrees awarded a year.

Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians follows at $66,785, with 70 degrees awarded.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University graduates earn about $1,448 less than the model expects for similar students, and its affordability ranks at the 96th percentile nationally. The average net price for aid recipients is $8,039, which is $6,029 below the $14,068 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

For the lowest income band, the average net price is $5,193, and for the highest band it is $13,570. The spread between the two ends is $8,377, and aid covers about 57% of the published cost for the average aid recipient.

Borrowers who finish carry a median of $17,000 in federal student loans, $4,229 below the median for comparable institutions (same type and size) of $21,229. That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $193 a month if repaid over ten years. Parents who borrow hold a separate median of $12,095 in Parent PLUS loans.

What explains value-added earnings?
Program & institutional factors The part attributed to observed institutional characteristics.
+$2,074
Unexplained remainder What remains after the model’s observed factors.
-$3,522
Total modeled value added The modeled difference from expected earnings.
-$1,448

These are statistical model components, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

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Southeastern Oklahoma State University acceptance rate & admissions[1][10][11]

Southeastern Oklahoma State University admits 76.4% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range
Admission rate
76.4%
Approximate lower endpoint
980
Reported average
1087
Approximate upper endpoint
1186

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.

Read the full admissions brief

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What are the largest majors at Southeastern Oklahoma State University?[12]

The highest-earning programs at Southeastern Oklahoma State University are not the ones awarding the most degrees. Computer and Information Sciences graduates earn $95,825 four years after completion, but the program awards only 8 degrees a year.

Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians is both the second-largest program and the second-highest earner, with 70 degrees awarded and median earnings of $66,785. Azimuth ranks it #8 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field, and #1 in Oklahoma.

Liberal Arts and General Studies, the largest program at 81 degrees awarded, posts median earnings of $52,418 and ranks #73 nationally. Management Science awards 46 degrees with median earnings of $53,029; Azimuth ranks it #62 nationally and #1 in Oklahoma.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University has 6 nationally ranked bachelor's programs, and the strongest of them is Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians. Azimuth ranks it #8 within its field and #1 in Oklahoma.

The program awarded 70 degrees, and its completers earned a median of $66,785 four years after completion. The largest program is Liberal Arts and General Studies, at 81 degrees a year.

Its completers earn a median of $52,418, and Azimuth ranks it #73 nationally. The highest earnings belong to a much smaller field.

Computer and Information Sciences graduates earn a median of $95,825 four years out, from just 8 degrees awarded. The program mix is broad: Business accounts for 20.9% of degrees, followed by Liberal Arts & General Studies at 14.5% and Engineering Technologies at 12.5%.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University awards bachelor's degrees across 6 ranked programs, with earnings data available for 13. Business is the largest program family, accounting for 20.9% of degrees awarded, followed by Liberal Arts & General Studies at 14.5% and Engineering Technologies at 12.5%.

The largest single program is Liberal Arts and General Studies, with 81 degrees awarded a year, ahead of Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians at 70 and Management Science at 46. The highest-ranked program is Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians, which Azimuth ranks #1 in Oklahoma within its field.

Its graduates earn a median of $66,785 four years after completion. Management Science ranks #62 nationally and #1 in Oklahoma within its field, with median earnings of $53,029.

The highest-earning program is a much smaller one. Computer and Information Sciences graduates earn a median of $95,825 four years out, from 8 degrees awarded a year.

The pattern here is one of strength concentrated in a few applied fields. Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians and Management Science carry both strong national ranks and solid earnings, while the largest program, Liberal Arts and General Studies, sits further down the earnings list. Across all fields, 18.3% of degrees are in STEM.

Four-year earnings · six largest reported fields
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities 81 degrees awarded
$52,418
Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians 70 degrees awarded
$66,785
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods 46 degrees awarded
$53,029
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness 38 degrees awarded
Too few graduates to report
Psychology, General 34 degrees awarded
$35,428
Air Transportation 33 degrees awarded
Too few graduates to report

Fields selected by reported completions. Counts describe credentials awarded, not unique students or the earnings sample. Bars show median four-year earnings.

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What colleges are similar to Southeastern Oklahoma State University?[15]

Azimuth groups alternatives by admissions, location, cost and earnings, then orders candidates within each group. Peer earnings use the matched four-year cohort. How matching works.

A shortlist for different decisions

Choose a row to compare the figures with Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Admissions peerUniversity of North Texas72.2% admitted
Comparison with Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MeasureSoutheastern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity of North Texas
Peer earnings · 4 years$56,329$58,743+$2,414 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Average annual net price$8,039$15,649+$7,610 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University · higher cost
Admission rate76.4%72.2%
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Higher-admission alternativeDallas Baptist University88.8% admitted
Comparison with Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MeasureSoutheastern Oklahoma State UniversityDallas Baptist University
Peer earnings · 4 years$56,329$59,308+$2,979 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Average annual net price$8,039$28,516+$20,477 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University · higher cost
Admission rate76.4%88.8%
Nearby alternativeUniversity of North TexasNearby option · TX
Comparison with Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MeasureSoutheastern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity of North Texas
Peer earnings · 4 years$56,329$58,743+$2,414 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Average annual net price$8,039$15,649+$7,610 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University · higher cost
Admission rate76.4%72.2%
Explore University of North Texas →
Higher-earnings alternativeUniversity of North Texas at Dallas$62,574 earnings
Comparison with Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MeasureSoutheastern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity of North Texas at Dallas
Peer earnings · 4 years$56,329$62,574+$6,245 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Average annual net price$8,039$6,420-$1,619 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University · lower cost
Admission rate76.4%84.5%
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Lower-cost alternativeUniversity of North Texas at Dallas$6,420 average net price
Comparison with Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MeasureSoutheastern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity of North Texas at Dallas
Peer earnings · 4 years$56,329$62,574+$6,245 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Average annual net price$8,039$6,420-$1,619 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University · lower cost
Admission rate76.4%84.5%
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Similar profileEastern New Mexico University-Main CampusMatched across several measures
Comparison with Southeastern Oklahoma State University
MeasureSoutheastern Oklahoma State UniversityEastern New Mexico University-Main Campus
Peer earnings · 4 years$56,329$54,827-$1,502 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Average annual net price$8,039$4,904-$3,135 vs Southeastern Oklahoma State University · lower cost
Admission rate76.4%91.7%

Each school is the first-ranked match in its category, not a recommendation across every measure. The same college may lead more than one category. Figures use the matching snapshot; earnings reflect the matched four-year cohort. — means unavailable.

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Data scope & methodology

Structured payloads generated Governed hub narrative Governed spoke corpus

Four-year earnings describe cohorts of completers. Figures for other horizons describe different cohorts and are not joined into a career-growth projection.

Azimuth's overall rank and pillar percentiles come from the school profile. Absolute pillar ranks, city, enrollment and official-site links are shown only when structured data supplies them.

Detailed earnings, cost, admissions and program values come from the endpoint responsible for each measure. Missing values are not replaced with zero. Value-added estimates are model associations, not causal effects.

Figures are refreshed with each data release, at most a quarter apart. The underlying source dates can be earlier than the release.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Read the ranking methodology, data definitions and limitations · About College Azimuth

Read the analysis behind value-added earnings and the change to four-year graduate earnings. These articles are published on collegeazimuth.com.

Data notes & source fields

Scorecard field codes identify the underlying measure; Azimuth-derived values are labeled separately. Snapshot dates are not measurement years. Source populations and reporting periods differ across measures. Field definitions are in the U.S. Department of Education · College Scorecard documentation; notes with a different source link it below.

  1. Admission rate. Reported applicants admitted; not a transfer-specific or individual admission probability.

    Source fields: ADM_RATE

  2. Six-year completion. First-time, full-time students completing at the institution within 150% of normal time, typically six years for a bachelor’s degree.

    Source fields: C150_4

  3. Four-year institutional earnings. Median earnings of graduates in the reported cohort who are working and not enrolled, four years after completion.

    Source fields: MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

  4. Median federal student debt. Federal student-loan debt among completers in the reported borrowing cohort. Excludes Parent PLUS and is not total debt across all students.

    Source fields: GRAD_DEBT_MDN

  5. National, regional and state ranks; pillar percentiles; major ranks. Derived scores within the stated eligible comparison set, not raw Scorecard fields. Major ranks compare institutions within a field; their denominators differ.

    Source fields: Azimuth rankings

    College Azimuth · Ranking methodology

  6. Annual net price by family income. Average annual cost after grants and scholarships for the eligible first-time, full-time aid-recipient cohort. Public-school figures reflect in-state tuition. Includes living costs; these are averages, not medians or individual offers.

    Source fields: NPT4_PUB/PRIV; NPT41_PUB/PRIV through NPT45_PUB/PRIV

  7. Parent PLUS debt, payments and GPS illustration. Stored payments use Financial GPS loan and repayment assumptions. The adjustable spectrum applies the published framework to annual student payments divided by earnings minus an expense allowance; its initial allowance uses the frozen 2024 framework baseline. It is an illustration rather than a school rating. Parent PLUS uses the completer median where available, otherwise the all-borrower median; these describe different borrowing populations.

    Source fields: PLUS_DEBT_ALL_COMP_MD; fallback PLUS_DEBT_ALL_MD; Azimuth Financial GPS calculations

    College Azimuth · Financial GPS methodology

  8. Downside and upside earnings; yellow band. The band spans the modeled lower and higher scenarios. It is not the P25–P75 interval for individual graduates. The median marker is the separately reported institutional median.

    Source fields: Azimuth modeled program-mix scenarios

    College Azimuth · Earnings scenario methodology

  9. Value added and its components. Observed-factor attribution plus the unexplained remainder equals total modeled value added. These are associations, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

    Source fields: Azimuth statistical model

    College Azimuth · Value-added methodology

  10. SAT score range and reported midpoint. Reported scores of enrolled score-submitters, not admission cutoffs. The midpoint field is not necessarily the middle of the displayed range.

    Source fields: SATVR25 + SATMT25; SATVR75 + SATMT75; SAT_AVG

  11. First-year retention. Retention of the reported full-time cohort at four-year institutions.

    Source fields: RET_FT4

  12. Program earnings, completion counts and major-mix dots. Included bachelor’s programs have at least five reported completions. Counts are aggregated credentials, not unique people or an earnings sample. Major-mix dots group those counts by field of study; excluded programs are not zero activity.

    Source fields: EARN_MDN_4YR; IPEDSCOUNT1; CIPCODE

    College Scorecard · Field-of-study technical documentation

  13. Pell recipients. Share of undergraduates receiving a Pell Grant in the reported academic year.

    Source fields: PCTPELL

  14. Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group. This is not an observed transfer-in rate. It includes part-time entrants and other entering-student attendance patterns.

    Source fields: 1 − PFTFTUG1_EF

  15. Peer earnings and signed differences. Differences are peer minus this school, from the same matching snapshot. A positive earnings difference does not mean the peer is better on every measure.

    Source fields: Azimuth peer model using MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

    College Azimuth · Comparison methodology

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