Early Childhood Education at Mercy College

If you plan to study early childhood education, 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 approximately 9,547 students attend the school each year.

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

Mercy Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development
• Master’s Degree in Child development

Online Classes Are Available at Mercy

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Mercy offers distance education options for child development at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Mercy Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Early Childhood Education. 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.

Child development Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 2% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 98% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development 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 child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Mercy Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 3% of child development master's degrees went to men and 97% went to women.

Of the students who received a child development master's degree from Mercy, 51% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 49% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	22
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Educational Methods
• Elementary Education

Careers That Child development Grads May Go Into

A degree in child development 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
Preschool Teachers	30,790	$48,630
Kindergarten Teachers	6,120	$79,410

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.