Master's · Dobbs Ferry, New York
Is Special Education and Teaching 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 6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $78,788
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $46,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $49k (likely $49k – $49k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6 years (likely 2.9–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$83k (likely −$243k – $77k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $77k (likely −$254k – $405k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- 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
Special Education and Teaching at other schools in New York
- CUNY City College$94,601
- Pace University$91,867
- CUNY Brooklyn College$90,918
- CUNY Hunter College$88,978
- Manhattan University$87,967
- College of Staten Island CUNY$86,157
- CUNY Queens College$85,359
- CUNY Lehman College$84,758
- St. John's University-New York$84,195
- Long Island University$81,836