General Business/Commerce at Excelsior College

What traits are you looking for in a general business school? To help you decide if Excelsior College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's general business program.

Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York and approximately 21,974 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 43 general business majors received their bachelor's degree from Excelsior College.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Business/Commerce section at the bottom of this page.

Excelsior College General Business/Commerce Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Business

Online Classes Are Available at Excelsior College

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Excelsior College offers distance education options for general business at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

Excelsior College General Business/Commerce Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the general business progam at Excelsior College compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The general business major at Excelsior College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Business/Commerce. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	19
	45
	71
	88
	138
	269
	292
	415
	621

Earnings of Excelsior College General Business Graduates

The median salary of general business students who receive their bachelor's degree at Excelsior College is $47,382. This is 11% higher than $42,524, which is the national average for all general business bachelor's degree recipients.

General Business Student Demographics at Excelsior College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general business majors at Excelsior College.

Excelsior College General Business/Commerce Bachelor’s Program

Of the 43 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Business/Commerce from Excelsior College in 2020-2021, 60% were men and 40% were women.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in general business at Excelsior College are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general business bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Excelsior College with a bachelor's in general business.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	26
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Excelsior College also has a doctoral program available in general business. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within General Business/Commerce

General Business/Commerce majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Excelsior College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Business/Commerce	43

Related Majors

• Telecommunications Management
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• Finance & Financial Management
• Human Resource Management

Careers That General Business Grads May Go Into

A degree in general business can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Excelsior College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
General and Operations Managers	163,250	$156,260
Management Analysts	47,580	$111,040
Sales Managers	23,120	$198,390
Administrative Services Managers	18,350	$137,480
Managers	16,600	$124,160

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
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Snowy Brooklyn College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.