Tuesday Tour Day — Mercyhurst University

Mercyhurst University is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The four-year Catholic, liberal arts school was founded in 1926. Since then, the school has seen growth, enrolling around 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students a year. Recently acquiring university status in 2012, this school offers students many opportunities.

Academic Life
Mercyhurst University offers more than 50 undergraduate majors with 67 concentrations. There are the traditional majors like accounting and psychology. But the school also offers majors such as fashion merchandising, dance, weaving arts, paleontology and petroleum technology. The average class size is 20 and Mercyhurst takes pride in the fact that all classes are taught only by faculty. In order to ensure students are well prepared for their lives after college, they are provided with hands-on experience that will allow them to apply what they learn to demonstrate that they know how to work in their desired field.

Campus Life
Mercyhurst believes that the college experience is a combination of what happens in the classroom and out of the classroom. Because of this, the school offers a variety of co-curricular opportunities for students to be a part of. In addition to clubs and organizations, Mercyhurst offers 24 varsity sports. While men’s and women’s hockey compete at the Division I level, the other 22 sports participate at the Division II level. If students are looking for things to do off-campus, Erie offers many experiences.

Financial Aid
In an effort to make education affordable, 95 percent of incoming freshmen receive some sort of financial aid. Tuition at Mercyhurst is $25,860, while room and board is $11,139.

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