Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee Area Technical College is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is a public, 2-year institution.
From Wikipedia: Milwaukee Area Technical College (or MATC) is a public two-year vocational-technical and community college based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MATC offers day, evening, weekend and online classes at campuses in downtown Milwaukee, Oak Creek, West Allis, and Mequon as well as an education center in the Walker’s Square neighborhood on Milwaukee’s near south side. More than 30,000 students are enrolled each year, with most students (56%) identifying as students of color. MATC offers over more than 180 accredited associate degrees, technical diploma and certificates. MATC also offers short-term badges, GED and HSED classes, high school diplomas through its Adult High School program, and English as a Second Language programs.
One of MATC’s educational outreach programs is the operation of the two PBS stations serving Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin. The stations, WMVS channel 10 and WMVT channel 36, are known collectively as Milwaukee PBS. In 1992, in partnership with Zenith Electronics and AT&T, Channel 10 produced the nation’s first test broadcast of a digital television signal. In March 2000, the station became the first in Wisconsin to begin regular broadcast of digital, high-definition programs. MATC entered the wireless digital era in 2003, becoming the first college in Wisconsin to provide wireless Internet service throughout all campuses. Milwaukee Area Technical College traces its roots to a 1911 Wisconsin law whose purpose was to encourage young adults who dropped out of high school to work full-time to continue their education part-time. Employers were required to allow workers to attend and students could participate in the evenings. In 1912, the Milwaukee Continuation School opened near Mason Street and the Milwaukee River. Its name was changed to the Milwaukee Vocational School in 1916 as trade skills were emphasized. Enrollment grew quickly, and in 1920–28, a new six-story building was completed at 6th & State Street–the core of what is now the Downtown campus. An influx of adult students led to a new name in 1948, Milwaukee Vocational and Adult School. With a growth in technical courses, the name became Milwaukee Vocational, Adult and Technical School in 1964. In 1968, it merged with the Milwaukee Institute of Technology (founded in 1951) to become Milwaukee Technical College. The following year, it merged with the other vocational schools in the metropolitan area to form Milwaukee Area Technical College, which became a member of the statewide Vocational, Technical and Adult Education System (now the Wisconsin Technical College System). One of the buildings they have is located at 1027 N. 7th Street, this used to be the home of Kalmbach Publishing and housed the offices of both Model Railroader and Trains, and was the first home to the original Milwaukee, Racine & Troy Railroad on the 3rd floor.
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There are apparently no tenure stream faculty. This can indicate a risk to academic freedom and thus educational quality, as faculty members may be able to lose their positions because of their speech, publications, or research findings.
This institution’s full-time undergraduate enrollment has tended to decrease over time.
Overview of institution
This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.
Institution kind: Associate’s Colleges: High Career & Technical-High Traditional
Undergrad program: Associate’s Colleges: High Career & Technical
Graduate program: Not classified (Exclusively Undergraduate)
Enrollment profile: Exclusively undergraduate two-year (see more details below)
Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $9,371 . This is 50% the average cost of Harvard.
Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.
Size and setting: Two-year, large
In state percentage: 99% of first year students come from Wisconsin
In US percentage: 100% of first year students come from the US
Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: Unknown (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]
Student to faculty ratio: 7.2 (undergrads to all faculty)
Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of less than 12 weeks, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Associate’s degree, Certificate of at least 2 years but less than 4 years
Schedule: Semester
Institution provides on campus housing: Yes
Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 195 students
Freshmen required to live on campus: No
Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes
Disabilities: 4.68 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.
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Comparisons
The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.
- Milwaukee Area Technical College lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Owens Community College, Delgado Community College, Rio Salado College, Ivy Tech Community College, Central Piedmont Community College, Tulsa Community College
- Milwaukee Area Technical College compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Bakersfield College, Miami Dade College, Valencia College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, Tarrant County College District, Mt San Antonio College, Broward College, Long Beach City College, Portland Community College, Hillsborough Community College, CUNY LaGuardia Community College, CUNY Queensborough Community College, City College of San Francisco, El Paso Community College, Fresno City College, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Salt Lake Community College, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, Columbus State Community College, East Los Angeles College, American River College, San Joaquin Delta College, Cuyahoga Community College District, Community College of Rhode Island, Riverside City College, Sacramento City College, Bellevue College, Mesa Community College, Community College of Philadelphia, Hudson Valley Community College, Erie Community College, Indian River State College, Monroe Community College, Sinclair Community College, Los Angeles Pierce College, San Diego Mesa College, Santa Ana College, Glendale Community College, Tallahassee Community College, Grand Rapids Community College, Community College of Allegheny County, Moorpark College, Irvine Valley College, Cosumnes River College, Los Angeles Valley College, San Antonio College, Ventura College, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Bunker Hill Community College, San Bernardino Valley College, Phoenix College, San Diego City College, Essex County College, San Diego Miramar College, Lorain County Community College, Reedley College, Jefferson Community and Technical College, Laney College, Scottsdale Community College, City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College, Community College of Baltimore County, Lone Star College System, Austin Community College District, Wake Technical Community College, Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City, Saint Louis Community College, Tidewater Community College, Central New Mexico Community College, Greenville Technical College, Trident Technical College, Pikes Peak State College, Metropolitan Community College Area, Midlands Technical College, Pima Community College, Oklahoma City Community College, Washtenaw Community College, J Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Georgia State University-Perimeter College, Wayne County Community College District, Southwest Tennessee Community College
- These institutions compare themselves to Milwaukee Area Technical College, but not vice versa: Vincennes University, Prince George’s Community College, Madison Area Technical College, Schoolcraft Community College District, Moraine Park Technical College, Nicolet Area Technical College
Enrollment
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Teaching
Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.
Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.
Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.
Geography
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Financial Aid
Graduation
Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).
Library
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Diversity
The US Census Bureau has a diversity index that goes from 0 to 1. In their words, “A 0-value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.” This uses their formula, but with the resolution available for the federal IPEDS data (which does not separate for a given demographic group whether members identify as Hispanic or not). This metric is about heterogeneity within the population, not the proportion of the population that comes from historically excluded groups.
Following the practice of the census, the index is multiplied by 100 to give the percentage probability a random pair of individuals will have a different background. Most institutions argue that diversity is a benefit, so by default a higher number is listed as better, but there may be cases where this measure does not reflect the mission of a college (for example, 70% of the students at a tribal college or university may be American Indian: that could be low-scoring by this metric but should not be read as “bad” given the institution’s mission).
These numbers are based on the most recent year available, generally 2023, which predates effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down of affirmative action. This has often changed, sometimes dramatically, the incoming student demographics at some institutions.
Overall diversity
Freshman profile
Demographic data for first time degree-seeking students. Note that this uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Freshman geography
Test scores
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ACT scores
Majors
This presents information on the number of majors and the median earnings one and five years after graduation for people who got a degree from this institution in that field. The earnings are for those who are working and not enrolled in further education. The earnings data (from the federal college scorecard) also has information on earnings for those categorized as ‘MALE’ and ‘NOMALE’ – for readability, these are recategorized here as “Men” and “Women”, respectively, which adopts the gender binary used in other federal data. “W/M earnings ratio” is the median earnings of women divided by men, as a percentage.