Occupational Therapy at Mercy College

If you are interested in studying occupational therapy/therapist, 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 approximately 9,547 students attend the school each year.

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

Mercy Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy

Mercy Occupational Therapy Rankings

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Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 34 occupational therapy majors earned their master's degree from Mercy. Of these graduates, 12% were men and 88% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 10% men graduate in occupational therapy each year. Mercy does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 2% more men than average.

Of the students who received a occupational therapy master's degree from Mercy, 65% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the occupational therapy master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 32% of degree recipients. That is 10% 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 occupational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	22
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Physical Therapy/Therapist

Careers That Occupational Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in occupational therapy 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
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Occupational Therapists	9,740	$88,370

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.