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Southern Adventist University

4881 Taylor Cir, Collegedale, TN 37315 · Private nonprofit 4-year · (423) 236-2000 · School website

Average net price

$24,345

per year after grants, College Scorecard

Career completions

2023-24, IPEDS

Students with Pell

30.6%

share of undergraduates, Scorecard

Takes federal student aid (IPEDS) Accreditor on file: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Yellow Ribbon school (IPEDS) Credit for military training (IPEDS)

Career programs at Southern Adventist University

Southern Adventist University reported 5 certificate and associate completions in 3 of the program types we track for 2023-24, most of them in culinary (5). College Scorecard counts 2,773 undergraduates.

Program	Award	Length	Program cost	Completions	Earnings, 1 yr
Culinary	Certificate, Associate	Not reported	Not reported	5	Not published
Cybersecurity	Certificate, Associate	Not reported	Not reported	0	Not published
Automotive	Certificate, Associate	Not reported	Not reported	0	Not published

Program cost is the whole-program tuition and fees a clock-hour school reports to IPEDS for its largest programs (2024-25). Earnings are College Scorecard medians for graduates of this school in that field, one year after completing; small cohorts are not published. WIOA list means the program appears on the state's eligible training provider list in the U.S. Department of Labor file (programs listed as of June 30, 2025).

Cost and aid at Southern Adventist University

What a year costs, 2024-25

Tuition and fees, in districtIPEDS, academic-year schools: $27,300
Tuition and fees, in stateIPEDS: $27,300
Books and suppliesIPEDS: $1,100
Average net price after grantsCollege Scorecard, students with federal aid: $24,345
Median federal debt at graduationCollege Scorecard, all programs: $24,500
Median earnings 10 years after entryCollege Scorecard, all students: $53,723

Clock-hour schools charge by program, not by year: see each program's own page for its whole-program cost.

Southern Adventist University net price calculator (link from IPEDS)
Financial aid office page (link from IPEDS)
Veterans and military page (link from IPEDS)

How training gets paid for: Pell Grants, Workforce Pell, WIOA, GI Bill.