Mercy University (Mercy NY), previously known as Mercy College, is a private

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with a main campus in

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, and additional locations in

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and the

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. It is a federally designated

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and the largest private

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in the

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. The university was historically affiliated with the

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, but has been independent and non-sectarian since the early 1970s, though it retains its historical affiliation with the

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. The university has six schools and offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs, on campus and online. Mercy University's 2025

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has been designated as a ''Professions-focused Undergraduate/Graduate-Doctorate Medium.'' Enrollment at Mercy University includes more than 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students representing 40 states and 51 countries throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America.

History

The college was founded in 1950 by the

. Mercy became a four-year institution offering programs leading to the baccalaureate degree in 1961. Mercy first received accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education by the end of that decade. Over the next half-decade, Mercy became independent, non-sectarian, and co-educational; it also doubled the size of the existing physical plant. In 2011, Mercy College absorbed the buildings and facilities of Our Lady of Victory Academy. The purchase and redevelopment of Victory Hall in 2013 allowed Mercy to increase classroom space, particularly for experiential learning in Business, Health Sciences, Music Production and Recording Arts, and Design and Animation. In 2016, Mercy College opened a new $32 million, 100,000-square-foot residence hall, a 5,000-square-foot fitness center and a

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Cafe and convenience store on its

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campus. Mercy College expanded and renovated its Manhattan campus in 2019. Also in 2019, Mercy College absorbed the

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. In 2023, Mercy College launched its sixth school, the School of Nursing, and became Mercy University to reflect the breadth of its programs across a wide variety of disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels and its evolution to a

. In 2024, Mercy University completed $4.25 million worth of campus improvements in Dobbs Ferry, New York, including the construction of a 4,100 square-foot permanent open-aired pavilion in The Grove area of the Dobbs Ferry main campus. Also in 2024, Mercy University started enhancing its athletic fields on the Dobbs Ferry campus.

Campuses

Dobbs Ferry main campus

Mercy University's

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, campus is seated on . It encompasses numerous administrative, academic and dormitory buildings, as well as indoor and outdoor athletic and fitness facilities. In 2024, Mercy University completed $4.25 million worth of campus improvements in Dobbs Ferry, New York, including the construction of a 4,100 square-foot permanent open-aired pavilion in The Grove area of the Dobbs Ferry main campus. In 2024, Mercy University started enhancing its athletic fields on the Dobbs Ferry campus.

Manhattan

The Manhattan campus is situated in the heart of Manhattan at

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and occupies three floors at 47 West 34th Street totalling 95,370 square feet. The Manhattan campus was expanded and renovated in 2019.

Bronx

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The Bronx campus occupies at the Hutchinson Metro Center, a rapidly developing complex of corporate and health care organizations and businesses. Bronx (2019) campuses with cutting-edge technology and dedicated wings to support learning in the health professions.The Bronx Campus’s facilities include health and science labs and anatomage tables and student spaces such as the Veterans Lounge.

Former locations

Yorktown Heights

In 1979, the Yorktown campus of Mercy College moved to a permanent facility at the intersection of Route 202 and Strang Boulevard. This landscaped building was renovated for college use. The branch library at the Yorktown campus was designated a federal depository for government publications. The campus was close to Franklin Delano Roosevelt State Park and ceased operations in 2021.

College of New Rochelle campus lease

In fall 2019, Mercy leased the

’s main campus in New Rochelle for up to two years, at $1.8 million a year, and nearly 1,700 students from CNR became Mercy students. In addition to CNR's main campus, Mercy also negotiated leases for two of CNR's satellite campuses, Rosa Parks in Harlem and the Brooklyn Campus in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. However this arrangement proved short-lived as the New Rochelle campus was sold in December 2019 to the Grand Lodge of New York Freemasons in order to pay off the College of New Rochelle's debts. It has since been turned into a senior-living facility for aged and infirm Freemasons.

Academics

Schools

Mercy University has six schools: *School of Business *School of Education *School of Health & Natural Sciences *School of Liberal Arts *School of Nursing *School of Social & Behavioral Sciences The university offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs, including more than two dozen that can be completed online. The faculty comprises 227 full-time professors.

Reputation and rankings

* 115th in Regional Universities North by '' U.S. News & World Report'' in 2024.https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/mercy-university-2772 * 20th in Top Performers on Social Mobility in Regional Universities North by '' U.S. News & World Report'' in 2024.

Admissions

Undergraduate acceptance rate was 85% in Fall 2023. The middle 50 percent

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Composite scores of enrolled students were 1020–1230. The middle 50 percent ACT Composite score of enrolled students was between 21 and 25. The average high-school

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of enrolled students was 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.

Demographics

As of 2022, Mercy University had 8,615 students enrolled. The undergraduate population includes 4,815 full-time and 1,564 part-time students with 30 percent of freshmen and 11 percent of all full-time undergraduates residing in campus-affiliated housing. While the majority of students are come from the tri-state area, students represent 40 states and 51 countries. Mercy University offers small class sizes with an average student/faculty ratio of 15:1. Around 89 percent of students are commuters; 11 percent live in campus housing. Mercy University has 72 percent female students and 28 percent male students.

Accreditation

All campuses of Mercy University are accredited by the

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Research

Mercy University participates in the McNair Scholars Program and is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The Office of Sponsored Programs works with faculty members and students to apply for funding to support research programs in a variety of fields. Mercy University conducts cybersecurity research in a number of areas including cross-domain information sharing, data security and privacy, data mining for malware detection, geospatial information security, secure social networks, and secure cloud computing. The university is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense Education by the

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and the

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Libraries

Mercy University's flagship library is on the main Dobbs Ferry Campus. Both the Bronx and Manhattan campuses also have branch libraries.

Athletics

Mercy athletic teams are the Mavericks. The college is a member of the Division II level of the

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(NCAA), primarily competing in the

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(ECC; formerly known as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) until after the 2005–06 academic year) since the 1989–90 academic year. Mercy University sponsors an intramural sports program, as well as intercollegiate competition in 10 varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, lacrosse and soccer; while women's sports include basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball and volleyball. The baseball, lacrosse, soccer, and field hockey teams, in addition to numerous local community high school and youth groups, play on a new, eco-friendly turf field on the Dobbs Ferry campus.

Nickname

In 2007, the university changed its

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from "Flyers" to "Mavericks" after the administration reviewed suggestions from students and faculty members.

Student life

Student government

The Mercy College Student Government Association (SGA) is responsible for protecting students’ rights, advocating for students’ interests, and promoting student life.

ROTC

Mercy University has

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and U.S. Navy ROTC programs on campus.

Notable people

Presidents

*Donald Grunewald (1972–1984); Merle King (1984–1985; interim) * Wilbert J. LeMelle (1985–1990) * Jay Sexter (1990–1999) * Lucie Lapovsky (1999–2004) * Louise Feroe (2004–2008) * Kimberly Kline (2008–2013) * Timothy Hall (2014–2023) * Susan L. Parish (2023–present)

Notable faculty and staff

* Thomas J. Abinanti, American politician, lawyer, and member of the New York State Assembly from Greenburgh, New York. * Fernando Cabrera, American politician in the Bronx, New York. A Democrat, he currently represents the 14th District in the New York City Council. Formerly program director for the Mental Health and Counseling program at Mercy College * Hind Rassam Culhane, lawyer, social and behavioral scientist *

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, winner of two regional Emmys *

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, Ghanaian composer, conductor, and music professor. * Adma d'Heurle, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, one of five original faculty members of the college * Matt Kilcullen, Director of Athletics * Wilbert J. Le Melle, American diplomat, author and academician. Former President of Mercy College *

Joseph Thomas O'Keefe Joseph Thomas O'Keefe (March 12, 1919 – September 2, 1997) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Syracuse from 1987 to 1995. Biography Joseph O'Keefe was born in New York City to Michael and Bridget ...

, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Syracuse from 1987 to 1995. *

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, an American former professional

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who played in

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* Barbara Boucher Owens, American computer scientist * Victor M. Pichardo, a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly. Former associate director of Public Relations at Mercy College. * Alfred S. Posamentier, American author and educator *

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, director and producer of multimedia products and computer animation, an author, artist and media theorist. *

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, recognized as one of America's premier photojournalists. * Boria Sax, American author and lecturer *

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, American economist and writer. * Rick Wolff, book editor, author, college coach, broadcaster, and former professional baseball player. *

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, professor of psychology at Mercy University. Played a leading role in developing the field of biomedical ethics as co-founder of

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, the world's first bioethics research institute. *

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, an American historian * Esther Rolick, an American painter

Notable alumni

Mercy University had more than 70,000 alumni as of 2023. The now-defunct

's alumni have been merged into the Mercy University alumni community. Alumni in politics and government include

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, former intelligence agent and television analyst. In a career of 26 years he rose to the third position of the

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;

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, New York City Council Member for the 36th District, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Crown Heights in Brooklyn;

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, the former Council member for the 17th district of the

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; Anna Cowin, former Lake County School District superintendent and served in the

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; James Reitz, American judge and politician from

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. He was an acting justice for the

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's 9th Judicial District;

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and a former two-term

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;

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in the

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. She held the positions of chief of naval education and training (CNET) (1996–98), Deputy Assistant

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for Military Personnel Policy (1998–2001), and director of navy staff from 2001 until the time of her retirement on October 1, 2004; and Rosario Green, Mexican economist, diplomat and politician. Prominent alumni in business and finance include

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, self-made billionaire, chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Facebook; George Gallego, a world ranked para-triathlete and entrepreneur; Michele Quirolo, President and chief executive officer of The Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley;

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''; Walter Anderson, former publisher and CEO of

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;

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, directing their Global Corporate Client Group; and

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, and the President of

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from 1996 to 2014. Alumni in the arts and media include

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, Academy Award-nominated actress;

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, contemporary landscape and botanical artist; Leopoldo Minaya, poet; Alicia Barney, a Colombian artist based in

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who focuses her paintings and installation art on ecological questions and problems such as water pollution, deforestation and quality of life;

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with dance movement;

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, a

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, a

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, a

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, two

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s, and two

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s; Myra Turley, an American film and television actress; Angela Cascarano,

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–winning TV news producer; Maria Mercader, an American journalist and news producer who worked for

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for over three decades. For her work producing a CBS feature report about computer spam, Mercader won a business

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in 2004; Sandra Uwiringiyimana, author; Joan Wolf, author of more than 15 historical novels; Camille Marchetta, a former London

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, an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. Notable figures in the field of education include Paul Broadie, president of

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; Gregory Howard Williams, 27th President of the

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, and the 11th President of

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; Anthony Mullen, 2009 National Teacher of the Year award winner; Madeleine Blais, an American journalist, author and professor in the

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's journalism department;

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, professor of religion, philosophy and

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. She taught at Columbia and

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before joining the

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, an American educator, who was the President of

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from 2005 to 2014. Prior to that, she was president of

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;

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, Professor of Education at the

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Graduate School of Education;

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program at

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where she also serves as Director of Long-Term care Administration;

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Ada María Isasi-Díaz (March 22, 1943 – May 13, 2012) was a Cuban-American theologian who served as professor emerita of ethics and theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. As a Hispanic theologian, she was an innovator of Hispanic ...

, Cuban-American theologian who served as professor emerita of ethics and theology at

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, New Jersey; and Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo, President of

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. Alumni in science and medicine include

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, an American nurse and researcher at the

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. She is the 2022

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and

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Fellow; Emmeline Edwards, neurochemist serving as director of the division of extramural research at the

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. She previously researched the neural mechanisms of complex behaviors and characterization of a genetic model of

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and

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official with the

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(CDC). In 2016, she was appointed the Director of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health in the

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; and Margaret C. Snyder, American

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. Alumni in sports include

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, retired American professional baseball right-handed

who played in

(MLB); Dewey Bozella, former amateur boxer;

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who played for the

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among others;

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pitcher;

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, former

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wide receiver;

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in 1988. Collins currently serves as president and general manager of California United Strikers FC; Jude Flannery, an American

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s; Jon-Adrian Velazquez, American criminal legal reform activist; Rosemary Dempsey, noted American Activist, has served many roles in second wave feminism, civil rights movements, and anti-war protests; Aulana L. Peters, a retired partner at the law firm of

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; and

Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akuffo III Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akuffo III (born Odehye Kwadwo Kesse Antwi; 24 February 1986) is a Ghanaian traditional ruler who is the Omanhene (or paramount chief) of the Akuapem traditional area (Okuapeman) in Ghana. He is a member of the Eastern Region hou ...

Ghanaian The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Gold Coast (region), Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of ...

traditional ruler who is the

Omanhene In several Akan nations of Ghana, the Omanhene (''Pl. Amanhene)'' is the title of a magnate or a supreme traditional ruler ('king') in a region or a larger town. The omanhene is the central figure and institution of the nation. Officially, he has ...

(or

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) of the Akuapem traditional area (Okuapeman) in Ghana.

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