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Life University

Doctor of Chiropractic program on a quarter system at a single campus in Marietta, Georgia. Every figure below comes from the university's own pages and carries its date.

Accreditation

Accrediting body for the program
unverified Not captured from the university's own pages in this pass. The Council on Chiropractic Education is the authority for US programmatic status and is the place to check it. We are not naming a council, a term or a date from anywhere else.
Institutional accreditation
unverified Not captured in this pass.
Accreditation action, as the CCE announces it
published The Council on Chiropractic Education’s announcement dated February 13, 2026 (Council meeting January 16-17, 2026) states: The following are final accreditation actions taken by the Council at its January 2026 Meeting: It lists Life University - College of Chiropractic (LUCC) with the action Continued and remove sanction of probation: Following the status review meeting, the Council conducted deliberations and reached a consensus decision to continued the accreditation and removed the probation sanction for the one (1) area of noncompliance of the LUCC doctor of chiropractic degree program. https://www.cce-usa.org/uploads/1/0/6/5/106500339/2026-02-13_accreditation_actions_announcement.pdf · checked 2026-10-05 No later announcement listed on CCE’s news pages names this program.
What this accreditation means for licensure in the United States
unverified No dedicated licensure disclosure was found on the pages we read. Absence in what we checked is not absence on the site. Ask the university, then confirm with the board in the state you intend to practice in. The Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards publishes the board-level answer — its Official Directory sets out, board by board, the criteria for obtaining and maintaining a license, including educational requirements and scope-of-practice summaries. See the FCLB entry on the organizations page for what it publishes and where. The licensure page for where this campus is: Marietta, Georgia — Georgia licensure →. Studying in a state is not the same as intending to practice there; read the page for wherever you intend to end up, and confirm with the licensing board there. The licensure hub lists every state documented so far.

Campus

Marietta, Georgia

1269 Barclay Circle, Marietta, GA 30060. Quarter system; the university defines an academic year as the Fall, Winter and Spring quarters.
Tuition
The university charges the Doctor of Chiropractic program at a block rate for 18 to 25 credit hours, with a per-credit-hour rate outside that band. Its stated per-credit-hour rate is $425, applying to students under the 2023 catalog and prior, and to students under the 2024 catalog and forward who register outside the block band. unverified The block rate amount itself and the current quarterly fee — both sit in a tabbed table on the cost page that did not render for us. The university's own 2025–26 cost-of-attendance document gives a DC rate of $413 per credit and a quarterly fee of $497; those are last year's published figures and are shown here as such, not as current.
Published indirect cost allowances, Doctor of Chiropractic
Living expenses, on campus$6,045
Living expenses, off campus$6,921
Books and supplies$750
Transportation$1,800
Personal$1,500
Federal loan fees$525
Boards$300

The university does not publish a combined total alongside these, and we are not computing one. Two living-expense figures are published, on campus and off, in the same table.

Additional costs the university lists
Enrolment fee $125 · graduation fee $150 · drop fee $25 per course · clinic re-entry fee $30 · replacement student ID $25 · audit course fee $175 · dis-enrolment fee of 20 per cent of the balance · library, parking and graduation fines · housing license breakage fine · international health insurance. Its payment plan carries a non-refundable $25 setup fee per quarter, requires a balance of at least $500, and spreads payment over three months of the quarter.
Life is the second of the five to publish two living-expense figures in one table — on campus at $6,045 against off campus at $6,921 — where Logan publishes off campus against living with a parent. Different splits, same underlying point: living arrangement changes what a student's aid is calculated against, and it is invisible in any single institution-level number.

Program and entry

Program length and format
Quarter system. The university states the standard program length for the Doctor of Chiropractic as 4.5 years, and notes that actual time to completion varies with enrolment status and course load. Full-time dual-degree DC students may audit a course in addition to their 31 hours.
Prerequisites
published What the program publishes about entry, route by route, in its own words.

Route 1 — Bachelor’s Degree

Route 2 — Non-Degree – 90 Semester Hours (135 Quarter Hours)

Route 3 — Non-Degree – 90 Semester Hours (135 Quarter Hours)

The program also publishes, on these pages

Application route
published
Application fee
published
Deadlines and start terms
published
Interview
not-published Not found in the pages checked: https://www.life.edu/admissions/ · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.life.edu/admissions-pages/dc-admissions/ · checked 2026-10-03; http://life.edu/admissions/experience-life/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.life.edu/admissions-pages/visit-life/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.life.edu/admissions-pages/international-student-enrollment/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.life.edu/admissions-pages/international-student-enrollment/prospective · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.life.edu/admissions-pages/articulation-agreements/ · checked 2026-10-04; http://beta.life.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Chiro-License-and-Physio-Requirements-V1.pdf · checked 2026-10-04.
International and transfer applicants
published
Degree and licensure, as the program words it
published
Pre-enrollment practice contact
published
  • Contact the program arranges. Experience Life events are designed to create and foster discussions with Life University College of Chiropractic students, faculty, staff and practicing chiropractors. Form of contact: at an event the program runs. http://life.edu/admissions/experience-life/ · checked 2026-10-04
What the pages checked do not answer
Among the fields above, these are marked not-published: Interview.
NBCE pass rates
A single figure is published very prominently, and it is not the same thing as the dataset. Findability path: a site-wide announcement banner on every page states "97% NBCE pass rate in Spring 2026". That is one administration in one term, published as an announcement rather than as a disclosure. unverified Whether the full CCE Policy 56 completion and board performance dataset is published, and where. The four programs built before this one each publish that dataset at a locatable path; we did not find Life's in this pass, which is a gap in our checking rather than a statement about the university.
What the board figure measures
Published, in the college's own words: 80% of the College of Chiropractic Graduates will pass all parts of the National Board of Chiropractic Examination within six months post-graduation. This metric is in accordance with the Council on Chiropractic Education Accrediting Agency – Policy 56.

The measure carries a six-month window. A figure counting passes within six months of graduation is a different quantity from one counting passes eventually, and this page records which one the college states. Colleges documented here state different measures under the same field name, and each is recorded in that college's own words rather than compared. Source: the university's Student Achievement page.

unverified Whether the prominently published single-term figure above is measured the same way.

Publishing practice
Publishes indirect cost allowances only, with no combined total; the tuition figures sit in a tabbed component on the same page. Publishes two living-expense figures, on campus and off. Does not publish every term of the program, and does not show the prior year's figures alongside the current ones — though its own prior-year cost-of-attendance document remains reachable on the site.
Tuition adjustment notice
unverified No published statement was found on the pages we read about whether tuition and fees may be changed, by whom, or with what notice to students. That is a field, not an absence — ask the university if you are budgeting several years from the figures above.
Student organizations present
unverified Which student association chapters are active, and whether any association membership fee is covered. The university runs a Life Leadership Weekend for prospective chiropractic students four times a year, in January, April, July and October, and hosts the Life Vision Extravaganza.

Student clubs and organizations

What a student actually does outside class is the part of a program nobody publishes comparably. This section records the categories of organization the university recognizes rather than a roll-call of bodies — any one college’s list is already a selection, and naming only the ones we happen to recognize would privilege the largest for no reason but familiarity.

How the university publishes it
Categories and entitlements openly; the roster on a platform. The university states it has over 60 recognized student clubs and organizations, publishes the categories they fall into, and directs readers to Engage for the current contact information for each registered club. It runs a Club Day every quarter — on the Thursday of week one — at which clubs showcase themselves.
Categories of organization the university recognizes
In its own words, the collection includes: Chiropractic · Social Activism · Faith-Based · Sports and Recreation · Cultural and Belonging · Well-Being.

The scheme names Social Activism and Cultural and Belonging among its categories, and is organized around what a student might care about rather than around the profession's own divisions of technique, organization and Greek life. A college's categories describe what it thinks student life is for.

What registration entitles an organization to — published in full
The university publishes the advantages and privileges of being a registered club: recruiting members on campus · holding meetings and events on campus · use of university meeting rooms and facilities · assignment of bulletin board space · participating in Club Day or Market Day at the start of each quarter · publicising activities through flyers, email and the platform · applying for student activity funding · use of the platform as a management tool. Sports club teams must additionally register as a recognized organization and secure a faculty or staff advisor before being recognized.

The university runs a student-engagement platform. This one publishes what a club gets and not what it may do.

⚠ Corrected 9 September 2026. This page previously stated that the second of those colleges kept its handbook internal, behind a login. That was wrong — the handbook is public. The three-way comparison of “disclosure choices” built on that error has been withdrawn rather than rewritten. What stands is the plain observation that the tooling is identical and the amount published differs. See the corrections page. unverified Whether Life sets conduct rules for technique clubs; nothing equivalent was found on its public pages, and absence there is not evidence either way.

Membership cost
unverified Not published. Another college states the distinction directly and it is worth borrowing rather than paraphrasing — Sherman College publishes: “You can join as many clubs as you'd like at no cost, and there's no obligation once you join. Some clubs offer certifications, which may require purchasing learning materials and attending seminars; these usually involve additional commitment.” unverified Whether the same holds here — Life does not say. Ask the organization, and ask specifically whether a certification sits behind it.

Worth knowing alongside that: registered clubs here may apply for student activity funding, which is a route to the club being funded rather than a statement about what a member pays.

Does the university cover any national membership fee for its students?
unverified Not stated for any organization. Whether any other college publishes such coverage is unchecked.
Open to students outside the chiropractic program?
unverified Not stated. The question matters here because this is a multi-program university — it runs undergraduate degrees alongside the Doctor of Chiropractic, and its own materials address clubs to the student body as a whole rather than to chiropractic students specifically. Whether they are open to all its students, faculty and staff is not stated either way.
Which nationally affiliated organizations run here
unverified Not establishable from the university's own public pages, which publish categories rather than names. The roster sits on the Engage platform. The organizations page lists, in each entry’s student block, the college rosters on this site that name the body. If a particular organization matters to you, ask whether a chapter currently runs — and treat that as true of every body equally, not just the largest ones.
How a student joins
Through Engage, which the university describes as a web-based application for joining, connecting with and starting organizations, and through the Office of Student Affairs and the Student Engagement team, which publish departmental contact addresses for questions and for starting a new organization. Club Day each quarter is the in-person route. No route here runs through us.
Last checked
September 2026, against the university's student engagement and leadership page, its student organizations page, its sport clubs page and its Club Day listing. The Engage platform itself was not opened, so no club is named here.
The same observation recorded at the other colleges documented here, because it holds again and reporting it once would make it a fact about one college rather than about the profession. The categories this university publishes run from chiropractic and sport through faith, well-being, cultural belonging and social activism. All named by one institution, in one scheme, in one register. The profession holds genuinely different accounts of itself, and sometimes all of them are inside one institution.

Board examination fees — a sixth mechanism, and a different one

Life publishes Boards as a standing line in the cost-of-attendance table, at $300.

Not a general allowance described in prose, and not a dated line item appearing in four specific terms. A single Boards row sitting in the Doctor of Chiropractic indirect cost table alongside books, transportation and loan fees. The university's own 2025–26 cost-of-attendance document puts it plainly: boards are included as part of the indirect costs for DC students each term, and students are responsible for managing their living expenses each quarter so they have sufficient funds when the cost of boards falls due.

That last sentence is worth reading twice. It is the university telling students that the allowance exists but the timing is theirs to manage — which is a materially different instruction from a college that adds the full fee to the term it falls in.

Sources. Life University's own published pages, checked September 2026: the Cost of Attendance page (last modified 21 August 2026, carrying the Doctor of Chiropractic indirect cost allowances, the per-credit-hour rate and catalog-year rules, the additional costs list, the payment plan terms, the standard program length and the academic-year definition), the university's own 2025–26 quarterly cost-of-attendance document (cited only for last year's per-credit and quarterly fee figures and the boards statement, and labelled as such), and the site-wide announcement banner carrying the Spring 2026 board pass figure. Fields marked unverified were not found on the pages we opened and are not filled in from anywhere else — including the annual tuition and cost-of-attendance figures circulating on comparison sites, which for this university describe institution-wide or undergraduate averages rather than the Doctor of Chiropractic rate. Rates are set annually; check the university's current page before budgeting, and confirm accreditation with the accrediting council and licensure requirements with the relevant state board rather than with any third party, including us.

Nothing on this page is a ranking, a recommendation, or a comparison. No school pays to appear here, to change a field, or to have a peer removed. Every program is described in the same fields at the same length, including the ones we hold no content about.

Cite this entry. Life University. In The Kaleidoscope. ChiroTrack. Last verified 5 October 2026. https://kaleidoscope.thechirotrack.com/school-life.html. Accessed ________.

Corrections to this entry: 10 October 2026 · 10 October 2026 · 4 October 2026 · 21 September 2026 · If this is your institution: how this entry was sourced, and how to correct it