by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
Mount Mercy University landed the #621 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Iowa, Mount Mercy came in at #14.
Mount Mercy was ranked #600 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, Mount Mercy took the #7 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Iowa.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 70.7% of the total graduate students at Mount Mercy are women and 29.3% are men.
Of all the graduate students at Mount Mercy, around 12.3% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Mount Mercy. Around 2.2% of graduate students are international. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $11,106 | $11,106 |
| Fees | $70 | $70 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Mount Mercy is $59,890. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 3% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Mount Mercy University.
Contact details for Mount Mercy are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1330 Elmhurst Dr Ne, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-4797 |
| Phone: | 319-363-8213 |
| Website: | www.mtmercy.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/mountmercyuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/MountMercy |
Around 56.9% of Mount Mercy graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 53.1% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Mental & Social Health Services | 2 |
| Nursing | 2 |
Footnotes
*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.
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