Excelsior College Business Programs

Excelsior College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Albany, New York. The city atmosphere of Albany makes it a great place for students who enjoy having lots of educational and entertainment options.

Excelsior College Rankings

We have ranked Excelsior College as #91 out of 1,477 colleges and universities in the country in our 2023 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. Excelsior College also holds the #4 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.

Our rankings are based on an outcomes-based approach rather than subjective ones used by other media outlets. As such, we utilize data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard, among other sources. Visit our rankings and methodology section to learn more.

Excelsior College has also been awarded the following overall awards by our latest rankings.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#3	Best Business Associate Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#48	Best Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Excelsior College.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#18	Best Value Management Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#19	Best Value Business & Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#22	Best Value Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#24	Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#28	Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#33	Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#37	Best Value Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#40	Best Value Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#45	Best Business & Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#84	Best Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Excelsior College has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#7	Best Business, Management & Marketing Associate Degree Schools	College Factual
#20	Best Organizational Leadership Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#33	Best Schools	Course Advisor
#33	Best Interior Design Management Schools	College Factual
#139	Best General Business Administration and Management Schools	College Factual
#163	Best Business Administration & Management Schools	College Factual

Where Is Excelsior College?

Contact details for Excelsior College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	7 Columbia Cir, Albany, NY 12203-5159
Phone:	518-464-8500
Website:	www.excelsior.edu
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/ExcelsiorColl

How Do I Get Into Excelsior College?

You can apply to Excelsior College online at: https://www.excelsior.edu/admissions

Since Excelsior College has an open admissions policy, you should not have any trouble getting into the school as long as you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Can I Afford Excelsior College?

The student loan default rate at Excelsior College is 3.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Online Learning at Excelsior College

In 2019-2020, 21,974 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Excelsior College has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 2nd most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of Excelsior College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Excelsior College was -14.7%. This is the #781 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Excelsior College regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Excelsior College ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Telecommunications Management	#4
Telecommunications Management	#4
Other Management Information Systems and Services	#17
Other Human Resources Management and Services	#20
Accounting and Business/Management	#98
Supply Chain Management	#106
International Business/Trade/Commerce	#144
International Business	#144
Interior Design Management	#154
Finance	#158
General Management Information Systems	#182
Management Information Systems	#208
Finance & Financial Management	#215
Organizational Leadership	#239
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	#248
General Business/Commerce	#286
General Business/Commerce	#286
Marketing	#323
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#327
Human Resource Management	#373
Accounting	#397

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Excelsior College Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	187	245	103	535
Organizational Leadership	0	2	102	104
Accounting	0	103	0	103
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	0	2	59	61
General Business/Commerce	0	43	0	43
Supply Chain Management	0	13	0	13
Accounting and Business/Management	0	0	10	10
Interior Design Management	0	8	0	8
Finance	0	8	0	8
Other Human Resources Management and Services	0	7	0	7
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	0	4	0	4
Other Management Information Systems and Services	0	0	4	4
General Management Information Systems	0	3	0	3
Telecommunications Management	0	0	2	2
International Business/Trade/Commerce	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	187	438	280	905

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Snowy Brooklyn College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.