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The founding philosophy of Excelsior College,“what you know is more important than where or how you learned it,” is our guiding principle.

Excelsior offers efficient and affordable access to degree completion through our online courses and our UExcel college-level proficiency examinations, the acceptance of transfer credit from other colleges and universities, as well as recognized corporate and U.S. military training programs.

Excelsior College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and holds specialty accreditation for individual programs including:

National League for Nursing

Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET

International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE

It is also home to several honor societies including:

Tau Kappa Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing

Alpha Nu Sigma (applied nuclear science and nuclear engineering

Alpha Sigma Lambda in the School of Liberal Arts