In 2016-2017, 21.8 percentage of Mercyhurst University students participated in collegiate sports, according to data made available by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Mercyhurst University has 2,452 undergraduate students, of which 58 percent are women and 42 percent are men, and a total student body of 2,759 students. Of these students, 379 men and 223 women represented the school by participating in one or more of the sports with teams at the school.
This total does not include students playing intramural sports.
According to NCES, 4.3 percent of students enrolled at institutions of higher education with sports teams were on teams.
The sports at Mercyhurst University with the most participants are football (95), lacrosse (76) and soccer (65).