Manhattan Area
Technical College
Public Community College in Manhattan, KS. Six-year graduation rate 74%. Median 10-year earnings $51,864.
Ten years after entry, the median Manhattan Area Technical College student earns $51,864 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Completion is a strength: 74% of students finish within six years. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Six-year completion runs to 74% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Retention of 76% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a public community college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 968 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 328 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $9,745 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $12,767 at $0–30k, $8,984 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 57% of students at an average of $8,943. 34% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 63 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $12,767 |
| $30–48k | $11,430 |
| $48–75k | $7,939 |
| $75–110k | $10,991 |
| $110k+ | $8,984 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 112 of these 328 students, totalling $680,078 — an average of $6,072 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Riley County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)