Human Services at Mercy College

If you are interested in studying human services, 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 approximately 9,547 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 students received a bachelor's degree in human services from Mercy.

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

Mercy Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Online Classes Are Available at Mercy

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

Mercy Human Services Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The human services major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Human Services. 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 Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	61
Most Popular Human Services Associate Degree Schools	223
Most Focused Human Services Associate Degree Schools	223
Most Focused Human Services Schools	278

How Much Do Human Services Graduates from Mercy Make?

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at Mercy is $35,942. This is 9% higher than $32,912, which is the national average for all human services bachelor's degree recipients.

Human Services Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 21 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in human services from Mercy in 2021, 5% were men and 95% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% more racial-ethnic minorities in its human services 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 human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Public Policy
• Public Administration
• Social Work

Careers That Human Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in human services 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
Social and Human Service Assistants	37,340	$37,180
Community and Social Service Specialists	15,510	$56,110
Social and Community Service Managers	13,110	$86,700

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.