$742K+ Manhattan College Settlement Ends Class Action Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Pandemic Tuition Refunds

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A $742,940 class action settlement will end litigation against Manhattan College over partial tuition refunds for roughly 3,000 students who were transferred from in-person to remote learning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020.

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The Manhattan College class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on September 4, 2025 and covers anyone who was enrolled at Manhattan College as an undergraduate student during the Spring 2020 semester, for whom any amount of tuition and fees for that semester were paid from a source other than a grant or scholarship from the college, and whose tuition and fees have not been refunded in their entirety.

The court-approved website for the Manhattan College settlement can be found at ManhattanUniversityFundLawsuit.com.

No action is required on the part of Manhattan College settlement class members to receive a cash payment from the $742,940 settlement fund, which the court estimates will be approximately $107.53 per person.

Class members will receive their payments via a check mailed to their last known mailing address in Manhattan College’s records. However, class members may elect an alternative, electronic payment method on this page of the settlement website.

To fill out the alternate payment method form, class members must log in with the unique class member ID found in their copy of the settlement notice.

Alternative payment method selections must be submitted online or postmarked no later than November 17, 2025.

A hearing is scheduled for January 15, 2026 to determine whether the Manhattan College settlement will receive final approval from the court. Payments will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.

The Manhattan College class action lawsuit claimed that undergraduate students who were transferred to remote instruction due to the COVID-19 lockdowns in the Spring 2020 semester were entitled to partial tuition refunds because the in-person services they had paid for were no longer available.

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