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Criminal Justice & Corrections at Mercy College

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Criminal Justice & Corrections at Mercy College

If you plan to study criminal justice and corrections, 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. Of the 1,668 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mercy College in 2021, 89 of them were criminal justice and corrections majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminal Justice & Corrections section at the bottom of this page.

Mercy Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Mercy Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminal justice progam at Mercy compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminal justice major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Corrections. 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.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools 338
421
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Basic Certificate Schools 442

Earnings of Mercy Criminal Justice Graduates

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at Mercy is $31,947. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice students.

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Criminal Justice Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

65% Women
78% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 35% of criminal justice bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice 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 criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 21
Hispanic or Latino 47
White 14
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

Mercy also has a doctoral program available in criminal justice. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That Criminal Justice Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminal justice 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
Accountants and Auditors 110,780 $96,300
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 53,560 $74,860
Correctional Officers and Jailers 35,460 $64,490
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 28,530 $58,050
Managers 16,600 $124,160

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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