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2012 – present
Founded: Manchester College of North Manchester, a Church of the Brethren school — the university traces its origins to the Roanoke Classical Seminary of 1860 and dates its own founding to 1889; one Indianapolis Business Journal account gives 1899 — announced its first satellite campus in October 2009: a Doctor of Pharmacy program in Fort Wayne's I-69 and Dupont health corridor, launched with a 35-million-dollar Lilly Endowment grant in December 2010.
Course: The college became Manchester University on July 1, 2012, and the first pharmacy class enrolled that August at 10627 Diebold Rd; the inaugural class graduated in May 2016. The campus added the nation's first master's degree in pharmacogenomics (2016), athletic training, nutrition and nutrigenomics, an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Doctor of Physical Therapy (from May 2023). A 20-million-dollar expansion — 32,000 square feet — was announced in December 2022 and completed in the fall of 2024.
Sources:
- Manchester University — the Fort Wayne campus and pharmacy program (program launched 2012; first class graduated May 2016).
- Indianapolis Business Journal (Dec. 2010; Apr. 2012) — the Lilly Endowment grant; the university name change.
- Building Indiana (Jan. 2023) — the expansion; the pharmacogenomics first.