Manhattan Area Technical College

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Manhattan Area Technical College is a vocational-technical school located in Manhattan, Kansas. The School offers Associate of Applied Science degree's in 10 disciplines with certificate programs in many others. The school has been in continuous operation since 1965.

1 History
2 Service Area
3 Academic Programs
4 External links

[edit] History

Manhattan Area Technical College was established in 1965 by statute under the Kansas Board of Education and named Manhattan Area Vocational Technical School. Programs were offered on the campus of Manhattan High School until the current campus located at 3136 Dickens Ave was completed in 1967. The school was renamed Manhattan Area Technical Center in 1992 and continued under that name until 1996, when legislation passed in 1994 allow vocational/technical schools to apply for recognition as a college. In 1996, Kansas Governor Bill Graves signed into law Kansas House Bill 2606, which designated the school Manhattan Area Technical College. In 2007, the school earned accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges.

[edit] Service Area

Since being established in 1965, Manhattan Area Technical College serves 10 counties in north-east Kansas, however, the school provides technical training to students throughout the state and other states as well.