High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Misericordia University is a four-year, Catholic, co-educational liberal arts university located on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) campus in Dallas, Pennsylvania, near the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. It was founded by the Religious Sisters of Mercy on August 15, 1924. The university offers bachelor`s, master`s and doctoral degrees as well as post-master`s and post-bachelor`s certificates.