Health Professions at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York and has a total student population of 21,974. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 96 students received their master's degree in health professions.

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

Excelsior College Health Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Health Professions

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.

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

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

Excelsior College Health Professions Rankings

Health Professions Student Demographics at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College Health Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 24% of health professions master's degrees went to men and 76% went to women.

Of the students who received a health professions master's degree from Excelsior College, 59% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the health professions master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 41% of degree recipients. That is 5% 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 health professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	27
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	57
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Health Professions

The following health professions concentations are available at Excelsior College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Excelsior College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Nursing	30
Health & Medical Administrative Services	21
Public Health	19
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	13
Other Health Professions	12
Medical Illustration & Informatics	1

Careers That Health Professions Grads May Go Into

A degree in health professions 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
Personal Care Aides	199,060	$27,640
Home Health Aides	191,820	$26,240
Registered Nurses	182,490	$85,610
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	112,510	$70,770
Nursing Assistants	91,400	$37,010

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.