Which Manhattan Area Technical College certificate program has the lowest debt?

Welding and Machining graduates leave with a median of $8,250 in federal loans, the lowest among 2 Manhattan Area Technical College certificate programs that report debt.

How much does Manhattan Area Technical College cost?

Tuition and fees are $9,844 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $10,074 a year.

How many Manhattan Area Technical College programs report graduate pay?

One associate's program and 4 certificate programs at Manhattan Area Technical College report first-year pay, and 3 of them also report federal debt.

Manhattan Area Technical College Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Public college
Manhattan, KS
342 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

4 Manhattan Area Technical College certificate programs report what graduates earn. Electrician Training pays the most in the first year ($50,897), and Practical Nursing the least ($32,624). The median program pays $36,604. Manhattan Area Technical College also has one associate's program that reports pay.

Tuition and fees$9,844Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$10,074Per year

Graduation rate74%Within 1.5 times the normal program length

One associate's program

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Kansas" compares first-year pay with the same field's associate's programs across Kansas.

Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Kansas
NursingAbout 26 graduates a year	$59,298	$71,499	$24,250	13th of 14

Program names link to the program's own page, and Kansas ranks link to the full ranking for the field.

All 4 certificate programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Kansas" compares first-year pay with the same field's certificate programs across Kansas. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Kansas
1	Electrician TrainingAbout 18 graduates a year	$50,897	$70,017	Not reported	2nd of 4
2	HVACAbout 15 graduates a year	$39,131	$52,420	Not reported	2nd of 2
3	Welding and MachiningAbout 37 graduates a year	$34,077	Not reported	$8,250	4th of 5
4	Practical NursingAbout 91 graduates a year	$32,624	$62,156	$13,998	9th of 9

Program names link to the program's own page, and Kansas ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five Kansas programs in the field do too.

Common questions

Electrician Training graduates earn a median of $50,897 in their first year, the most of 4 Manhattan Area Technical College certificate programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Kansas rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels