Manchester University
North Manchester, IN
Manchester University is a private, Church of the Brethren university in North Manchester, Indiana, a town 10 to 35 miles from a city, with 936 undergraduates. Kinesiology and education are its signature fields: together they make up 22% of its bachelor's degrees, three and a half times their share across the colleges we cover. 46% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $51,504 ten years after starting.
Manchester University admitted 71.1% of applicants.
- Acceptance rate
- 71.1%
- Tuition and fees
- $37,135
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $18,805
- Average, students with aid
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe an entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
Manchester University has not published the annual form most of these pages are built from, so this page is short: there are no score bands, no grid of what the school says it weighs, no early-round comparison and no waitlist figures, and nothing stands in their place. What follows is everything that has actually been measured.
What Manchester University is known for
Measured by the 237 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Kinesiology
12.7%
of its bachelor's degrees: about five times the 2.6% share across the colleges we cover.
Education
9.7%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 3.9% share across the colleges we cover.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness3012.7% of degrees$52,218About the $54,562 national median
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs239.7% of degrees$64,722+5% vs $61,911 nationally
- Business Administration, Management and Operations187.6% of degrees$63,644−7% vs $68,257 nationally
- Psychology177.2% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Education114.6% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Accounting and Related Services104.2% of degrees$75,295About the $76,194 national median
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Town, 10–35 miles from a city
North Manchester, IN
Undergraduates
936
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, small programs
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
12 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
0%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
71.1%
Source: the College Scorecard
Where do you actually stand at Manchester University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Manchester University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $37,135, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $49,993. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $18,805 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$37,135
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$49,993
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$18,805
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $49,993 full cost.
- Under $30k$13,875Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$16,109Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$16,607Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$21,075Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$26,151Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
46%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
66%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$51,504
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$26,854
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
- Rolling AdmissionJune 1, 2027
Verified July 17, 2026 · Source
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in Indiana
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Huntington University71.1%
- Ball State University71.6%
- Franklin College70.6%
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology72.8%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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