Manhattanville College Overview

Manhattanville College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Purchase, New York. Purchase is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Manhattanville College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Manhattanville since the student to facuty ratio is 10 to 1.
• The 5% student loan default rate at Manhattanville is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the doctor's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Manhattanville.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 32% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Manhattanville bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $45,600 a year. That's about 12% more than their peers at other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.1 years for students from Manhattanville to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Manhattanville College Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Manhattanville.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#6	Best Value Other Education Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#21	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#22	Best Special Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#28	Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Most Popular Teacher Education Subject Specific Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#48	Best Educational Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#54	Most Popular Special Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#74	Best Value Teacher Education Subject Specific Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#81	Best Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#178	Most Popular Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Manhattanville has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#1	Best Physical Education Teaching & Coaching Master’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#14	Best Reading Teacher Education Schools	College Factual
#64	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Schools	College Factual
#69	Best Educational Administration Schools	College Factual
#155	Best Teaching Schools	Teaching Degree Search
#169	Best Education Schools	College Factual

Where Is Manhattanville College?

Contact details for Manhattanville are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2900 Purchase St, Purchase, NY 10577
Phone:	914-694-2200
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/Manhattanville
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/#!/Mville_College

How Do I Get Into Manhattanville?

You can apply to Manhattanville online at: www.mville.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/apply

Admission Requirements for Manhattanville

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Manhattanville?

Since Manhattanville has an acceptance rate of 90%, it is not too hard to gain acceptance into the school. Still, you need to be sure you complete your application in full and send in any other requested documents.

Approximately 36% of accepted students are men and 64% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 87%, and the acceptance rate for women is 91%.

Can I Afford Manhattanville College?

The overall average net price of Manhattanville is $34,967. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Manhattanville, approximately 31% of students took out student loans averaging $7,766 a year. That adds up to $31,064 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Manhattanville is 4.8%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Manhattanville College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,409 undergraduate students at Manhattanville, with 1,333 being full-time and 76 being part-time.

There are also 999 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,333 full-time undergraduates at Manhattanville, 41% are male and 59% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Manhattanville College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	26
Black or African American	136
Hispanic or Latino	394
White	676
International Students	38
Other Races/Ethnicities	63

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Manhattanville College. At this time, 21 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 65 countries are represented at Manhattanville. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, Dominican Republic, and Georgia.

Online Learning at Manhattanville College

In 2019-2020, 866 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Manhattanville has changed over the last few years.

Online Growth Rankings of Manhattanville

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Manhattanville College was 11,075.0%. This is the #12 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Manhattanville regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Manhattanville College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Teacher Education Subject Specific	6	5	91	0	102
Special Education	0	9	68	0	77
Business Administration & Management	55	0	7	0	62
Health & Physical Education	33	0	22	0	55
Communication & Media Studies	46	0	0	0	46
General Psychology	40	0	0	0	40
Marketing	19	1	19	0	39
Teacher Education Grade Specific	9	0	30	0	39
Educational Administration	0	12	0	19	31
Writing Studies	17	0	9	0	26
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	5	20	0	25
Finance & Financial Management	19	1	4	0	24
Sociology	19	0	0	0	19
General Education	0	0	18	0	18
International Studies	16	0	0	0	16
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	13	0	0	0	13
Teaching English or French	0	1	12	0	13
Political Science & Government	12	0	0	0	12
General Biology	11	0	0	0	11
Drama & Theater Arts	10	0	0	0	10
Other Education	0	9	0	0	9
Dance	9	0	0	0	9
Fine & Studio Arts	9	0	0	0	9
History	8	0	0	0	8
Human Resource Management	0	1	6	0	7
English Literature (Other)	7	0	0	0	7
Music	7	0	0	0	7
Romance Languages	6	0	0	0	6
Philosophy	6	0	0	0	6
Arts & Media Management	6	0	0	0	6
Mathematics	5	0	0	0	5
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	4	0	0	0	4
Computer Information Systems	4	0	0	0	4
Chemistry	4	0	0	0	4
Accounting	3	0	0	0	3
Liberal Arts General Studies	3	0	0	0	3
Economics	3	0	0	0	3
Area Studies	2	0	0	0	2
Religious Studies	2	0	0	0	2
Criminal Justice & Corrections	2	0	0	0	2
General Social Sciences	2	0	0	0	2
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	1	0	0	0	1
Physics	1	0	0	0	1
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	1	0	0	0	1
General English Literature	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	420	44	306	19	789

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.