Student Population at Mount Mercy University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
1,526	1,271	255

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 1,526 students have enrolled in Mount Mercy University with 1,271 undergraduate and 255 graduate students.

By gender, 542 male and 984 female students are attending the school.

It has fewer students compared to similar colleges (1,948 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Master's College and University (medium programs)).

232 students are enrolled exclusively, and 281 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

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Student Population by Gender

Mount Mercy University has a total of 1,526 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 1,271 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 255 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 542 male and 984 female students (the male-female ratio is 36:64) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	1,526	1,271	255
Men	542	472	70
Women	984	799	185

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 1,117 White, 102 Black, and 32 Asian students out of a total of 1,526 are attending at Mount Mercy University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

All Students

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Total)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	3	0	3
Asian	32	11	21
Black	102	43	59
Hispanic	32	15	17
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	-	-	-
White	1,117	344	773
Two or more races	95	40	55
Race Unknown	37	11	26

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	2	0	2
Asian	29	11	18
Black	93	38	55
Hispanic	31	14	17
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	-	-	-
White	910	295	615
Two or more races	77	34	43
Race Unknown	34	10	24

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	1	0	1
Asian	3	0	3
Black	9	5	4
Hispanic	1	1	0
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	-	-	-
White	207	49	158
Two or more races	18	6	12
Race Unknown	3	1	2

Student Age Distribution

There are 1,048 students under 25 years old, and 459 students over 25 years old out of 1,526 total students.

Mount Mercy has 991 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 267 students aged 25 and over.

It has 57 graduate students aged under 25 and 192 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	55	31	24
18-19	382	222	160
20-21	402	254	148
22-24	209	125	84
25-29	130	89	41
30-34	97	73	24
35-39	67	51	16
40-49	128	102	26
50-64	37	25	12

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	55	31	24
18-19	382	222	160
20-21	398	250	148
22-24	156	91	65
25-29	76	51	25
30-34	57	42	15
35-39	42	32	10
40-49	69	54	15
50-64	23	17	6

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At Mount Mercy University, 232 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 281 students are enrolled in some online courses.

216 students lived in Iowa or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 16 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	1,526	232	281
Undergraduate	1,271	117	234
Graduate	255	115	47

Online Student Population by Locality
	Iowa Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	216	16
Undergraduate	109	8
Graduate	107	8

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 1,271 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 155 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 12.20%.125 students have transferred in as full-time status and 30 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	873
Transfer-in Full-time	125
Regular Part-time	243
Transfer-in Part-time	30

Student Population at Mount Mercy University

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