Information Technology at Excelsior College

If you are interested in studying information technology, 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 approximately 21,974 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in IT from Excelsior College.

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

Excelsior College Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

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.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Excelsior College Information Technology Rankings

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

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 IT major at Excelsior College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Information Technology. 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
Most Popular Online Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	41
Most Focused Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	198

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in IT from Excelsior College. This is the #199 most popular school for IT master’s degree candidates in the country.

IT Student Demographics at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 9 IT students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Excelsior College, about 67% were men and 33% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% women. So female students are more repesented at Excelsior College since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT 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 IT.

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

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

Related Majors

• Computer Systems Networking
• Computer Information Systems

Careers That IT Grads May Go Into

A degree in IT 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
Computer User Support Specialists	45,190	$60,160
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	25,940	$94,940
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Computer Network Support Specialists	12,930	$79,200

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.