Business Administration & Management at Excelsior College

If you are interested in studying business administration and management, you may want to check out the program at Excelsior College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York and has a total student population of 21,974. Of the 3,053 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Excelsior College in 2021, 268 of them were business administration and management majors.

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

Excelsior College Business Administration & Management Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Business Administration
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration

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 business administration at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Excelsior College Business Administration & Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the business administration 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 business administration major at Excelsior College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Business Administration & Management. 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
	6
Best Value Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	40
Most Popular Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools	74
	173
Best Value Business Administration & Management Schools	212
Best Value Business Administration & Management Master’s Degree Schools	382

In 2021, 205 students received their master’s degree in business administration from Excelsior College. This makes it the #140 most popular school for business administration master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Business Administration Graduates from Excelsior College Make?

The median salary of business administration students who receive their bachelor's degree at Excelsior College is $62,731. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 52% higher than the national average of $41,334 for all business administration bachelor's degree recipients.

Business Administration Student Demographics at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College Business Administration & Management Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 81% of business administration associate's degrees went to men and 19% went to women.

Excelsior College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in business administration graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	43
Hispanic or Latino	38
White	84
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

Excelsior College Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Program

The business administration program at Excelsior College awarded 268 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 77% of these degrees went to men with the other 23% going to women.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in business administration 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 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its business administration 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 business administration.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	63
Hispanic or Latino	36
White	153
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

Excelsior College Business Administration & Management Master’s Program

Of the 205 students who graduated with a master’s in business administration from Excelsior College in 2021, 76% were men and 24% were women.

Of the students who received a business administration master's degree from Excelsior College, 58% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the business administration master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 41% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	43
Hispanic or Latino	25
White	118
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

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

Related Majors

• Telecommunications Management
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• Finance & Financial Management
• General Business/Commerce

Careers That Business Administration Grads May Go Into

A degree in business administration 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
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	112,510	$70,770
Retail Sales Supervisors	66,620	$50,640
Management Analysts	47,580	$111,040
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310

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.