Public Relations at Mercy College

If you plan to study public relations, take a look at what Mercy College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Mercy is located in Dobbs Ferry, New York and has a total student population of 9,547.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Public Relations section at the bottom of this page.

Mercy Public Relations Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in PR

Mercy Public Relations Rankings

The pr major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Public Relations. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

PR Student Demographics at Mercy

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the pr majors at Mercy College.

Mercy Public Relations Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 36% of pr bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women. The typical pr bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Mercy since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% more racial-ethnic minorities in its pr bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Mercy College with a bachelor's in pr.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	3
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That PR Grads May Go Into

A degree in pr can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Mercy College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Public Relations Specialists	24,510	$74,000
Advertising and Promotions Managers	6,590	$174,870
Public Relations and Fundraising Managers	6,190	$167,330
Communications Professors	3,080	$90,470

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Sardaka under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.