[14] 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 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.

[17] The Bronx campus occupies 125,522 square feet (11,661.4 m2) at the Hutchinson Metro Center, a rapidly developing complex of corporate and health care organizations and businesses.

The Bronx Campus’s facilities include health and science labs and anatomage tables and student spaces such as the Veterans Lounge.

[52] Alumni in politics and government include Jamaal Bowman, American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 16th congressional district since 2021; Pasquale J.

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;[A] 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.

For her work producing a CBS feature report about computer spam, 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;[55] 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.

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 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.

[57] Other notable alumni include at least two Fulbright Scholars;[58] 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 traditional ruler who is the Omanhene (or paramount chief) of the Akuapem traditional area (Okuapeman) in Ghana.