Manor College
Private Community College in Jenkintown, PA. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $46,825.
Students who entered Manor College land at a median of $46,825 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Only 25% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $19,000, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 95%, Manor College takes nearly everyone who applies. With 1,147 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. Only 11% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 4% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 360–445 | 5 (4%) |
| SAT Math | 365–490 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is the problem here: 25% graduate within six years. Just 56% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 462 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $13,684 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($13,135 versus $17,817), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $10,044, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 78% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 109 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 | $13,135 |
| $30–48k | $9,493 |
| $48–75k | $13,154 |
| $75–110k | $15,838 |
| $110k+ | $17,817 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 361 of these 462 students, totalling $2,827,520 — an average of $7,832 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Montgomery County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring, Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); Heightened Cash Monitoring; School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)