College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Mount Mercy University

Cedar Rapids, IA · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 1,107 undergrads · 83% admitted

Do students finish?

58% complete

A large share of students do not finish; the cost is the same whether or not you graduate.

What does it cost?

$55,054/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$220,216 over four years if you finish on time.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$60,787 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $44,476 median $60,787 75th pct $83,487

81% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Your major matters more than your school

The school-wide figure above blends every major together — but pay varies enormously by program. Pick a degree level (and search your major) to compare like-for-like.

Read these on their own terms. Program pay is measured 1 year after completing the program (early career, graduates only) — not the same as the school-wide number above, which is 10 years after a student first enrolled. Don't compare a program figure to the school figure; use the programs to compare majors to each other.

11 Bachelor's programs · $28,097 to $57,547 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $57,547 $23,558

Business/Commerce, General.Bachelor's $52,232 $23,708

Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $50,444 —

Finance and Financial Management Services.Bachelor's $42,894 $21,359

Marketing.Bachelor's $41,591 $26,500

Human Resources Management and Services.Bachelor's $39,879 $25,982

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $39,647 $26,625

Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $36,384 $26,000

Social Work.Bachelor's $33,397 $24,750

Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $30,427 $25,000

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $28,097 $20,500

The Dept. of Education omits programs with too few graduates (to protect privacy), so not every major appears. Pay is a median for federally-aided graduates. Full program detail on the official Scorecard.

Typical federal loan debt

$18,500

≈ 30% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major — see the by-major breakdown above (14 programs at this school).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website