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Mercy University ( Mercy NY), previously known as Mercy College, is a private research university with a main campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and additional locations in Manhattan and the The Bronx. It is a federally designated minority-serving institution and the largest private Hispanic-Serving Institution in the state of New York. The university was historically affiliated with the Catholic Church, but has been independent and non-sectarian since the early 1970s, though it retains its historical affiliation with the Sisters of Mercy.
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 Carnegie Classification 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.
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 Starbucks Cafe and convenience store on its Dobbs Ferry campus. Mercy College expanded and renovated its Manhattan campus in 2019. Also in 2019, Mercy College absorbed the College of New Rochelle. 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 research university. 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.
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.
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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.
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.
Alumni in politics and government include Jamaal Bowman, American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for since 2021; Pasquale J. D'Amuro, American terrorism Expert, former intelligence agent and television analyst. In a career of 26 years he rose to the third position of the FBI; Robert Cornegy, New York City Council Member for the 36th District, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Crown Heights in Brooklyn; Mike Kavekotora, Namibian politician and member of parliament. He is the president of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP); David Rosado, American politician from New York; Maria del Carmen Arroyo, the former Council member for the 17th district of the New York City Council; Anna Cowin, former Lake County School District superintendent and served in the Florida State Senate; James Reitz, American judge and politician from Putnam County, New York. He was an acting justice for the US Supreme Court's 9th Judicial District; Mary Donohue, an American retired educator, attorney, politician and Judge of the New York Court of Claims and a former two-term Lieutenant Governor of New York; Patricia Ann Tracey, retired United States naval officer and the first woman to be promoted to the rank of vice admiral in the United States Navy. She held the positions of chief of naval education and training (CNET) (1996–98), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 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 Mark Zuckerberg, 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; Carolyn Kepcher, businesswoman who was one of the judges on the NBC television program The Apprentice; Walter Anderson, former publisher and CEO of Parade Magazine; Noreen Culhane, an American businesswoman and current executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, directing their Global Corporate Client Group; and Anne Sweeney, American businesswoman. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors at Netflix, LEGO A/S, and the board of trustees at the Mayo Clinic and the J.P. Getty Trust. She was formerly the co-chair of Disney Media Networks and President of the Disney–ABC Television Group, and the President of Disney Channel from 1996 to 2014.
Alumni in the arts and media include Gabourey Sidibe, Academy Award-nominated actress; Olivia Peguero, contemporary landscape and botanical artist; Leopoldo Minaya, poet; Alicia Barney, a Colombian artist based in Cali who focuses her paintings and installation art on ecological questions and problems such as water pollution, deforestation and quality of life; Patricia Breslin, an American actress and philanthropist; Allys Dwyer, an American actress who became a college educator; Clarence Maclin, an American actor known for his role in Sing Sing; Claire Porter, American choreographer/comedian known for blending comedic monologues with dance movement; Mercedes Ruehl, American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two , and two Outer Critics Circle Awards; Myra Turley, an American film and television actress; Angela Cascarano, Emmy award–winning TV news producer; Maria Mercader, an American journalist and news producer who worked for CBS News for over three decades. For her work producing a CBS feature report about Spamming, Mercader won a business Emmy Award in 2004; Sandra Uwiringiyimana, author; Joan Wolf, author of more than 15 historical novels; Camille Marchetta, a former London literary agent, is a novelist, television writer and producer best known for her work on 1980s prime time soap operas Dallas, Dynasty and Falcon Crest; and Dorothy Kilgallen, an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist.
Notable figures in the field of education include Paul Broadie, president of Housatonic Community College and Gateway Community College; Gregory Howard Williams, 27th President of the University of Cincinnati, and the 11th President of the City College of New York; Meisha Ross Porter, an American educator who served as the New York City Schools Chancellor; Anthony Mullen, 2009 National Teacher of the Year award winner; Madeleine Blais, an American journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department; Julia Ching, professor of religion, philosophy and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto. She taught at Columbia and Yale before joining the University of Toronto faculty; Regina Peruggi, an American educator, who was the President of Kingsborough Community College from 2005 to 2014. Prior to that, she was president of Marymount Manhattan College and led the Central Park Conservancy; Teresa P. Pica, Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; Darlene Yee-Melichar, professor and coordinator of the gerontology program at San Francisco State University where she also serves as Director of Long-Term care Administration; Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American theologian who served as professor emerita of ethics and theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey; and Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo, President of Columbia Theological Seminary.
Alumni in science and medicine include Paule Valery Joseph, an American nurse and researcher at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She is the 2022 National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Nursing Fellow; Emmeline Edwards, Neurochemistry serving as director of the division of extramural research at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. She previously researched the neural mechanisms of complex behaviors and characterization of a genetic model of affective disorders at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2000 to 2010, Edwards was deputy director of the extramural program at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Mary Jane Perry, an American oceanographer known for the use of optics to study marine phytoplankton; Kathleen Ethier, American social psychologist and public health official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2016, she was appointed the Director of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; and Margaret C. Snyder, American social scientist.
Alumni in sports include Garvin Alston, retired American professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB); Dewey Bozella, former amateur boxer; Laura Creavalle, professional female bodybuilder; Rob DiToma, head baseball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University; Simone Forbes, Jamaican sportswoman, having represented Jamaica in no less than five sports; Stan Jefferson, former center fielder and left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Mets among others; Brian Sweeney, former MLB pitcher; Wesley Walker, former NFL wide receiver; Mookie Wilson, former MLB outfielder/ coach; Joel Serrano, Puerto Rican footballer; Michael Collins, an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. Collins played for at least twelve teams in nearly half a dozen leagues over his seventeen-year career. He also earned two caps with the United States national team in 1988. Collins currently serves as president and general manager of California United Strikers FC; Jude Flannery, an American triathlete who won six consecutive US national championships between 1991 and 1996; and Mary Etchells, first and only woman to win the Star Worlds sailboat racing world championship.
Other notable alumni include two Fulbright Scholars; 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 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; and Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akuffo III, Ghanaian people traditional ruler who is the Omanhene (or paramount chief) of the Akuapem Kingdom (Okuapeman) in Ghana.
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