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Manchester Community College Data & Information Overview

281 awards Ranking Badges
Fair Price Value for Your Money
6% Student Loan Default Rate
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How Well Is Manchester Community College Ranked?

#1,397 Best Colleges in Nation
#19 Best Colleges in CT
Criminal Justice & Police Science Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.

Manchester Community College was awarded 281 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & police science.

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Overall Quality

College Factual ranked MCC as #1,397 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when MCC held the #1,773 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

MCC also holds the #19 spot on the Best Colleges in Connecticut ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into MCC?

Open Admissions Policy

Acceptance Rate

Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Manchester Community College has an open admissions policy. This means that you'll only have to submit basic materials, which may include proof that you completed high school or an equivalent program.

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Manchester Community College Faculty

16 to 1 Student to Faculty
25% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio at Manchester Community College is about average at 16 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.

The full-time faculty percentage at Manchester Community College is 25%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  25 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at Manchester Community College

58% Freshmen Retention

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Manchester Community College this rate is 58%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.

Freshmen Retention Rate  58 out of 100
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Manchester Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,468 Full-Time Undergraduates
47.3% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
55.1% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,448 undergraduates at MCC with 1,468 being full-time and 2,980 being part-time.

How Much Does Manchester Community College Cost?

$7,471 Net Price
$13,676 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of MCC is $7,471. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for MCC

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$6,795 $7,395 $8,055 $9,005 $12,368

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of MCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

The student loan default rate at MCC is 6.4%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

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How Much Money Do MCC Graduates Make?

$39,762 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Although some majors pay more than others, students who graduate from MCC with a bachelor's degree go on to jobs where they make an average salary of $39,762 in their early years. This is in the same neighborhood of the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year. However, certain majors may produce higher-paying graduates.

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Location of Manchester Community College

Connecticut State
1,468 Full-Time Undergraduates
Suburb Campus Setting
Manchester Community College is a public institution located in Manchester, Connecticut. Manchester is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

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Contact details for MCC are given below.

Contact Details
Address: Great Path, Manchester, CT 06040
Phone: 860-512-3000
Website: www.manchestercc.edu/

Manchester Community College Majors

41 Majors With Completions
599 Undergraduate Degrees
Learn more about the majors offered at Manchester Community College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at MCC

91% Take At Least One Class Online
65% Take All Classes Online

Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.

In 2020-2021, 4,079 students took at least one online class at Manchester Community College. This is a decrease from the 4,272 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 4,079 2,934
2019-2020 4,272 3,193
2018-2019 1,388 436
2017-2018 1,381 435
2016-2017 1,270 405

Learn more about online learning at Manchester Community College.

Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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