Mercy College (Mercy or Mercy NY) is a privateresearch university with its main campus located on 66 acres in Dobbs Ferry, New York, with additional locations in Manhattan, Bronx and Yorktown Heights.[8] The university is historically affiliated with the Roman Catholic church and the curriculum remains influenced by Jesuit educational principles. Mercy College has five schools: Business, Education, Health & Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts and Social & Behavioral Sciences, and offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs.[9] The university had 11,295 students enrolled in Fall 2015. The student body comes from 43 states and 54 countries.[5]