Early Childhood Education at Mercy College

If you are interested in studying early childhood education, 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. Of the 33 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mercy College in 2021, 33 of them were early childhood education majors.

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

Mercy Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development
• Master’s Degree in Child development

Mercy Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Early Childhood Education. 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 Early Childhood Education Master’s Degree Schools	5
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	45
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	104
Best Early Childhood Education Master’s Degree Schools	166
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	224
	256
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	329
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	360
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	471
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	524

In 2021, 88 students received their master’s degree in child development from Mercy. This makes it the #5 most popular school for child development master’s degree candidates in the country.

Child development Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students earned a bachelor's degree in child development from Mercy. About 88% of these graduates were women and the other 12% were men. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Mercy since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development 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 child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Mercy Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

The child development program at Mercy awarded 88 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 5% of these degrees went to men with the other 95% going to women.

In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 56% of degree recipients. That is 12% 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 child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	32
White	38
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Educational Methods
• Elementary Education

Careers That Child development Grads May Go Into

A degree in child development 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
Preschool Teachers	30,790	$48,630
Kindergarten Teachers	6,120	$79,410

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.