Finance at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York and approximately 21,974 students attend the school each year. Of the 438 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Excelsior College in 2021, 8 of them were finance majors.

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

Excelsior College Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at Excelsior College

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Excelsior College does offer online education options in finance for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Excelsior College Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Excelsior College performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at Excelsior College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Finance. 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
	22
	30
	35
	39
	39
	96
	521

Finance Student Demographics at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College Finance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Excelsior College since its program graduates 20% more women than average.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Excelsior College are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

Careers That Finance Grads May Go Into

A degree in finance 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
Financial Analysts	53,250	$137,270
Financial Managers	42,460	$210,510
Personal Financial Advisors	26,710	$164,260
Loan Officers	12,890	$103,450

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.