Nursing at Mercy College

If you are interested in studying nursing, you may want to check out the program at Mercy College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

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 Nursing section at the bottom of this page.

Mercy Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Master’s Degree in Nursing

Mercy Nursing Rankings

The nursing major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Nursing. 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.

Nursing Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Nursing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 15% of nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 85% went to women. The typical nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Mercy since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its nursing 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 nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	45
Black or African American	105
Hispanic or Latino	92
White	59
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

Mercy Nursing Master’s Program

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

In the nursing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 54% of degree recipients. That is 14% 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 nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Nursing

If you plan to be a nursing major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Mercy College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Registered Nursing	471
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	25
Nursing Administration	10

Related Majors

• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science
• Bioethics/Medical Ethics
• Health & Medical Administrative Services
• Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services
• Mental & Social Health Services

Careers That Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in nursing 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
Registered Nurses	182,490	$85,610
Medical and Health Services Managers	25,830	$143,030
Nurse Practitioners	13,710	$120,970
Nursing Instructors and Professors	4,380	$91,900
Nurse Anesthetists	1,770	$191,130

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.