St. John's College

Private · IL

School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationIL · Midwest

SettingUrban

Undergrads126

Student:faculty11:1

Outcomes

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Cost

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Community

Racial diversity34.1%

Gender diversity90.5%

International0%

IdentityRoman Catholic

Overview

St. John's College is a small nursing college in Springfield, Illinois, affiliated with HSHS St. John's Hospital, part of the Hospital Sisters Health System. It focuses exclusively on nursing education, typically serving students completing upper-division coursework after prerequisite general-education work elsewhere, with training grounded directly in an active hospital setting rather than a broad multi-department university campus.

Academics

The nursing curriculum is clinically intensive, using the affiliated hospital's units and staff for hands-on training rather than large lecture-hall instruction. Because the program is narrowly focused on nursing, class sizes stay small and coursework moves quickly from classroom material into supervised clinical practice.

Worth knowing

The hospital-college affiliation means clinical placements are effectively built into the program rather than something students have to arrange or compete for externally, a model shared with a handful of older hospital-based nursing schools that predate the now more common university-based BSN pipeline.

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Admissions

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Test policynot reported

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Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

Applying