Mental Health Counseling/Counselor at Mercy College

If you plan to study mental health counseling/counselor, 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 Mental Health Counseling/Counselor section at the bottom of this page.

Mercy Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling/Counselor

Mercy Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Rankings

Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Student Demographics at Mercy

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the mental health counseling/counselor majors at Mercy College.

Mercy Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 29% of mental health counseling/counselor master's degrees went to men and 71% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in mental health counseling/counselor each year. Mercy does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 12% more men than average.

In the mental health counseling/counselor master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 51% of degree recipients. That is 17% 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 mental health counseling/counselor.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling

Careers That Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Grads May Go Into

A degree in mental health counseling/counselor 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

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.