Manatee Technical College
About
Manatee Technical College is a public technical college located in Bradenton, Florida. It serves approximately 5,176 students and offers over 50 career and technical programs across various fields including Health Science, Business Technology, and Culinary Arts. MTC has been operational for over 60 years, providing training for careers in high-demand industries.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 34 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 34 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data34 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Council on Occupational Education
Programmatic accreditations · 1
Action history · 4
- Jun 2025Warning or Equivalent-Factors Affecting Academic QualityCouncil on Occupational Education
- Feb 2024Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Assisting (DA)
- Jun 2023Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Occupational Education
- Sep 2017Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Occupational Education
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 514 students received $2.7M in Pell grants.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 1 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 13.2% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
Academic programs at Manatee Technical College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Manatee Technical College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Manatee Technical College selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectManatee Technical College | 64% | — | 1,486 | $7,591 | — |
Aparicio-Levy Technical College | — | — | 329 | — | — |
Bridgerland Technical College | — | — | 1,682 | $2,785 | — |
Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center | — | — | 558 | $7,980 | — |
Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools | — | — | 115 | $13,731 | — |
Fort Myers Technical College | — | — | 764 | $14,072 | — |
Francis Tuttle Technology Center | — | — | 2,834 | $4,999 | — |
George Stone Technical College | — | — | 610 | $9,098 | — |
Great Oaks Career Campuses | — | — | 142 | $10,911 | — |
Greene County Career Center | — | — | 12 | $10,960 | — |
Marion Technical College | — | — | 502 | $5,114 | — |
Northwest Technology Center-Alva | — | — | 287 | $10,038 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Crump | — | — | 1,659 | -$37 | — |
Tri-Community Adult Education | — | — | 217 | — | — |
Ventura Adult and Continuing Education | — | — | 74 | $9,949 | — |
Wilton Simpson Technical College | — | — | 155 | $12,233 | — |
Withlacoochee Technical College | — | — | 278 | — | — |
| Peer group median | 64% | — | 329 | $9,524 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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