Bachelor's · Dobbs Ferry, New York
Is Design and Applied Arts at Mercy University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,781
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $64k (likely $64k – $89k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $22k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.6 years (likely 2.8–9.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$35k (likely −$161k – $103k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $219k (likely −$44k – $498k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 45%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Mercy University
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$153,317
- Health Professions Education, Ethics, and Humanities (Master's)$139,972
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$128,609
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$122,180
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$118,232
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions (Bachelor's)$110,519
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$106,554
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Graduate certificate)$101,022
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$95,089
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$90,632
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$87,505
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$84,854
Design and Applied Arts at other schools in New York
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$87,358
- Syracuse University$71,527
- Marist University$66,010
- St. John's University-New York$63,659
- Fashion Institute of Technology$60,882
- Pratt Institute-Main$59,792
- LIM College$58,061
- The New School$56,838
- Farmingdale State College$53,896
- CUNY New York City College of Technology$52,562