Riverside College of Health Careers
Newport News, VA · Private · Midsize city · RCHC
Private institution in Newport News, VA · 325 undergraduates · 17% acceptance rate · $66,072 median earnings 10 years after entry.
- Top 4%Acceptance rate
- Top 16%Median graduate debt
- Top 18%Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- Top 19%Median earnings, 6 years after entry
Stats
College Scorecard figures, each with where this school sits nationally among institutions that report the same measure. A dash means the school does not report it.
Cost
- Average net price
- $25,5961,512th cheapest of 1,969 reporting
- In-state tuition & fees
- $14,875942nd cheapest of 2,024 reporting
- Out-of-state tuition & fees
- $14,875544th cheapest of 2,024 reporting
- Cost of attendance
- $29,743930th cheapest of 1,969 reporting
- Median graduate debt
- $14,787303rd lowest of 1,865 reporting
Outcomes
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $66,072354th highest of 1,954 reporting
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $54,261373rd highest of 1,950 reporting
- Graduation rate (4-year)
- 62.5%677th highest of 2,014 reporting
- Full-time retention
- —
Admissions
- Acceptance rate
- 16.7%64th most selective of 1,596 reporting
- Average SAT
- —
- Median ACT
- —
Campus
- Undergraduates
- 3251,776th largest of 2,144 reporting
- Student-faculty ratio
- 12.0:1782nd smallest of 2,141 reporting
- Pell Grant share
- 47.9%426th highest of 2,122 reporting
Nearest large-hub airport: 130 mi (DCA)
List appearances
This school doesn’t place in the top slice of any of our 111 lists. Most lists are Top 25–50, so absence here is common and says little on its own.
Similar-size colleges
Nearest undergraduate enrollment to Riverside College of Health Careers’s 325 (College Scorecard UGDS, compiled 2026-10-24). Size only — not a judgment of similarity or quality.
In VA
- University of Management and TechnologyArlington, VA · 322 undergrads
- Washington University of Science and TechnologyVienna, VA · 302 undergrads
- Patrick Henry CollegePurcellville, VA · 373 undergrads
- Sentara College of Health SciencesChesapeake, VA · 239 undergrads
- Centra CollegeLynchburg, VA · 212 undergrads
- Sweet Briar CollegeSweet Briar, VA · 463 undergrads
Elsewhere
- The Chicago School at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA · 324 undergrads
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, TX · 322 undergrads
- Nazarene Bible CollegeColorado Springs, CO · 336 undergrads
- Atlantis UniversityMiami, FL · 313 undergrads
- Mesivta Torah Vodaath Rabbinical SeminaryBrooklyn, NY · 337 undergrads
- Mid-America College of Funeral ServiceJeffersonville, IN · 337 undergrads
Key links
- Official websiteriversideonline.com
- College ScorecardFederal source for every figure above (UNITID 233408)
- Compare colleges in VARe-score with your weights
- The Most Selective Colleges in VirginiaEvery eligible four-year in this state, ranked by published admission rate
- Compare with University of Management and TechnologySide by side on every Scorecard measure — closest in-state school by enrollment
- Showdown: Riverside College of Health Careers vs University of Management and TechnologyHigher-or-lower on real Scorecard metrics — round 1 is these two
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