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I joined Excelsior in March 2024 after completing an 18 month LPN program with Suffolk community college. I just completed my final Nursing course/capstone and was able to 鈥渨alk for graduation鈥� July 11, 2025. I had to drop NUR290 due to personal problems l, after one week in, and then took it again in September. So technically I should鈥檝e been done in August.
That would make the entire process completed in 17 months. I had to take one prerequisite prior to beginning my nursing courses along with... Read More the mandatory two courses the school makes you take. I did the three of them together and then began my nursing courses two at a time, until the end when you鈥檙e required to take the final three courses independently.

Excelsior's Online Nursing Program

As for my learning experience, I didn't learn anything from the 3 introduction courses that I didn't already know. I already have a bachelor鈥檚 degree and have completed courses at a graduate level. I find myself very disconsolate with the program at this point in time. And I have disrelished every second that I've had to do these introductory courses. I'm 41 years old, with multiple degrees, and a little over 2 decades of career life experience. I didn't need to... Read More go over how to write a research paper, how to cite sources, how to show respect, how to conduct a job interview, conflicting professional duties, balancing conflict, or impact bias. The these introduction courses would be perfectly acceptable to high-school kids going to college for the first time. But I paid Excelsior University to educate me on nursing. If I had returned to my previous institutions I would already be in a nursing program. At this point I feel as though I have wasted over $4,000 and 8 weeks of my life going back over material that I learned in my undergraduate degree.
Excelsior should take measures to ameliorate the screening process for new students. A more pragmatic approach would be to see how old they are, their education level, and their professional background. I can understand that Excelsior sees this as salient approach to those that are just stepping out into the world. And that's fine. But don't "shotgun everyone" into this category. This is a very non-sequitur way to manage new students or working professionals.

Excelsior University only cares about money, not the students. I already had a master鈥檚 degree and enrolled here to earn my second one, which I completed this past spring. Yet because I have a remaining balance, they refuse to release my degree until it鈥檚 fully paid. Instead of offering real support or resources, they make it clear that finances come first, not student success.

Over the last two years, I鈥檝e had nothing but misdirection and headaches 鈥� from financial aid, to the bursar鈥檚 office, to... Read More professors. Each department passes you around without real solutions. When life circumstances come up (things out of your control), they鈥檙e quick to put you on probation and even pull your financial aid 鈥� money meant to help you pay for school 鈥� as a form of punishment.

I also noticed an unsettling culture among some staff and faculty, where there seemed to be envy or dismissiveness toward students with strong academic or professional backgrounds. That is the opposite of support and encouragement.

I chose Excelsior thinking online learning would be flexible and student-friendly, but the reality was the complete opposite. If you value your time, money, and future 鈥� take your talent and dedication to a school that actually cares about its students.

I had a very positive experience at EU: I was awarded the large bulk of my credits through credit-by-exam (via CLEP and Study.com), which considerably sped up and substantially lowered the cost of my studies (BS Psychology.) The instructors teaching the courses I took at EU were either very good or outstanding: knowledgeable, responsive, and rigorous. I had to work hard to earn a 4.0 GPA, despite having attended university abroad and years of work experience under my belt. My academic writing and... Read More research skills have markedly improved, thanks to the tough love approach of the EU teaching staff. - Caveat: This school is definitely not a diploma mill and requires you to be an extremely motivated self-starter to excel. If you have above average discipline and work ethic, I cannot recommend EU highly enough for a low-cost, high-quality college education. I recommend testing out of as many courses as you can, which is a lot at EU. (N.B. - Read the negative reviews closely to separate objective criticism from emotionally driven smears!)

Excelsior needs to be closed. Little did I know, I was being ripped off. My nursing degree has not been respected by most acute care facilities in my area of New York. I can see how difficult it must be in other states, especially California who outright will not. Please, don't waste your time. Go to a school where your degree will be respected. Nursing is a dog eat dog world and you don't need anything else working against you, especially an education that's ridiculed and looked down on. I have... Read More been called a fake nurse and my degree has been used against me as a weapon for mistreatment and sabotage. I later went on and completed my BSN at a local university. But my Excelsior ADN always follows me and at times I'm received as a glorified LPN at best, which I certainly am not. I run hoops around new RNs from other schools, and some of them had to repeat their NCLEX 3 to 5 times. Some of their nursing judgement leaves lots to be desired. I don't know, maybe it's just this new generation nursing thing as it seems 15 and 20 years ago, it seemed we were much better prepared as new nurses overall. I'm so tired of being judged by a degree that's not even my most current one. From what I'm hearing here on this forum, it seems the quality of ADN program education at Excelsior may be on the decline. But healthcare itself has taken a real dive. Unsafe staffing levels and horizontal violence is at an all-time high and not much is being done about it. Back to the school, the real scoop is always going to come from the students & their reviews, because a school itself, especially Excelsior, is only trying to hype sell you a dream to get your money. Do yourself a favor, DO NOT GO TO EXCELSIOR for an associate degree in nursing. You can do better. Get a nursing degree that will be respected and that you can use anywhere. You're worth it.

Beware of LPN to RN program if out of state!! I was a FT LPN in NY. Moved to PA after graduating LPN to RN Oct. 24鈥� as I鈥檓 getting married so stopped working to study. Could not take NCLEX in PA as there is a pending review between Excelsior & PA State Board of Nursing for last 4 months. Took NCLEX n NY & passed Dec. 2024. PA will not honor my RN license transfer perm or temp while review is ongoing. Both Excelsior & PA BON will not provide timelines for resolve. Many of my graduated classmates can鈥檛... Read More even take NCLEX since October. Excelsior is not providing the correct information to the board for us to be approved. There are more graduates after us being affected. I鈥檓 unemployed!!

My professors have been amazing, with the exception of one who got my advisor to try to talk me into withdrawing after my son was in ICU. I asked for a couple of one鈥攖o two-day extensions because I was dealing with trauma, and assignments were due the day my son came home. After I requested a new advisor, I was assigned one without a response to my email and the new advisor does not bother replying to my emails. The others have been encouraging, patient, and helpful. I love the curriculum, which... Read More encourages critical thinking and creativity. The financial aid department is severely lacking in communication and people skills. They are rude, condescending, and dehumanizing and blame students for their mistakes. Also, Excelsior does not give students access to Microsoft Office, a .edu email address, or access to unofficial transcripts, which are all pretty basic things offered by nearly all other schools.

I came to Excelsior as a transfer student, and for the most part, it has been a wonderful experience! My professors have been amazing, with the exception of one professor who got my advisor to try to talk me into withdrawing from school after my son was in the ICU. I asked for a couple of one鈥攖o two-day extensions because I was dealing with trauma, and assignments were due the day my son came home. The other professors have all been so encouraging, patient, and helpful. I love the curriculum, which... Read More has been a very different experience from my previous school. It really encourages critical thinking and creativity. The financial aid department is severely lacking in communication and people skills. They are rude, condescending, and dehumanizing. Additionally, I received an email from the financial aid department where they used the word "to" in place of the number "two," which is incredibly unprofessional coming from any college department, but especially the financial aid department.

Happy to remove this if my issue is resolved.
Current student in the Nuclear Engineering Technology program.
The biggest issue I am experiencing right now is the AI witch hunt come finals time. I was given a 0 for my final paper because some faulty software, known for having unreliable detection flagged my paper as AI generated. This resulted in a full two-letter drop in my grade which is completely unacceptable. I made a complaint and was told to rewrite my paper.
Students are given very little recourse... Read More and AI detection is notoriously unreliable. For my grade to suffer two letters as a result of a computer mistake administration is unwilling to address is beyond absurd.
I don't have much choice but the finish my degree but I would recommend you get your education elsewhere.
Again if this gets resolved, I will update or delete this review.

The good: Excelsior College accepts more transfer credits that almost any other school. They accept over 100 credits of transfer, so you can get a degree with <15 credits from them. That's unheard of. The bad: Their financial aid office is worthless. They promise you huge aid packages, just to cancel it after the disbursement date/final drop deadline passes. Then you're stuck footing the bill for a lot of the money yourself. And no, my external aid sources (fed gov't/Pell) cannot be blamed. Excelsior... Read More miscalculated my aid themselves and promised me double of what they ended up really giving me. Now I owe debt. Classes are painfully boring and a waste of time. The capstone and cornerstone classes are high school busy work, at best. The assignments are petty, pointless non-sense. I suffered taking these mind-numbing, completely useless classes. It's a college degree-- an expensive degree that I suffered through completely pointless classes to get. I learned nothing. No one respects the degree, it's an open-enrollment, zero standards for admission college. You pay, they let you in. But it's a check-the-box-on-a-form degree.

We sometimes forget the circles we run in when we write on social media. It wasn't very comforting to see people interpreting what others have stated about getting their degrees quickly. Many of these professionals come from the U.S. military, which trains every individual to the degree of their capability to work professionally in high-demand technical career fields. The history of Regents, Excelsior College, and Excelsior University is very steep in rigorously vetting official educational records... Read More for credits accepted by accrediting authorities. Technical Schools within each branch of services and combined service schools are all transferable credits accepted by the many academic institutions that historically operated on foreign bases contracted for the advanced education of military members. Many folks discussing finishing their degree "in a short time" were stranded with a lot of college credit experience that Excelsior University took in various ways and pioneered the idea that has entirely morphed into distant learning. Excelsior is not a diploma mill. It is an accredited authority of great honor that has honored those deserving of academic credit for all their learning experiences. Thirty-five years of service to the DoD did not get me a job teaching when I left to start a new career. My degree from Excelsior College did, and it continues to serve me well.

It is what it is. I started at Excelsior to become a Nurse. College misinformation and errors on my part meant I ran out of time. Not entirely Excelsior's fault. Excelsior does a great job when you are salvaging your abandon credits from other traditional colleges into something. Some classes I was able to use were almost thirty years old. (Obviously science and technical courses, not so much.) Some online courses with over 5-year-old textbooks that you can buy on EBAY for 5 bucks makes the course... Read More costs reasonable. Some undergrad courses and fees with books are under 250 dollars as of 2021. My Bachelors of Science Liberal Arts beat the dreaded "some college" on a job application. Just to drive myself crazy. I added up all my cost out of pocket. Then I assumed I worked overtime instead of studying. Then I took the identical percentage of that unrealized money and mirrored exactly what I invested in my current retirement fund. Compounding interest and market growth over 32 years came to $ 237,327.15 of potential 403b/1k money. Almost a quarter of million. Now to be fair. Excelsior expenses and time only represent 12,500,01 of that aforementioned expense. Considering I usually did my work while working and Excelsior's classes are priced reasonably. Excelsior is a great choice. (I should have listened to my Stepfather and became a plumber.) If you are stuck with a bunch of dead credits like I was. Excelsior is a great option. If you are young and do not have a lot of sunk cost into college odyssey. You should become a plumber too! That is where the real money is at. But the good news. I have my degree. The only real advice I have. Excelsior has a nasty habit of moving the academic goal posts when you are nearing the end of your degree. The only thing that saved me from additional classes. I communicated strictly via Yahoo E mail instead of campus intranet. I was able to show the Dean of Students what the advisor said what when and why. Excelsior intranet E mail get purged every 60 days. Excelsior yielded and I was able use my Capstone to cover a suddenly required humanities courses.

I graduated from Excelsior College years ago with an associated science in nursing. Yes, it required lots of studying time. One of the reasons many LPN doesn't do good because they fail to think on rn level, they want to continue lpn mentality. Yes at first it was difficult for me, I soon realized I had to move out of the practical nurse mode to thinking as registered nurse. I will always remember this school because it was where I started in the 90s. It open many doors for me. However, I pursued... Read More my dreams and obtained my BSN years before I retired. I am still in nursing as a teacher and enjoying every moment of it.

I see a lot of negative reviews on this school for the nursing program, but I on the other hand loved it. Because I travel a lot, it was great to be able to access my classes on my own time from my own computer. The key to this school (especially the nursing curriculum) is to definitely learn how to take the initiative to study and learn the lessons on your own. This is not to say you are literally on your own, as the classes provide you with all needed materials and information, you just have to... Read More know how to manage your time, prioritize, and discipline yourself to study. If you can do this, you will be successful in the program. I recommend this program to all my colleagues as I hear horror stories of people flunking out of the overpriced schools that demand so much time and money. You are provided a teacher you can communicate with and it always seemed that in every situation I faced someone at the school tried to help in some way. The only thing I would say is to check up on the requirements that you need for your state, as not all (but most) will accept a degree from excelsior. The CPNE was a challenge but since I took mine during Covid, there was no wait and I got to do a zoom test. It was one of the things that made me hesitant for this program, but it is possible and it should not deter you in deciding on this school as it really is no different or harder than any other nursing exam. I was also afraid I would not be successful as I am not the best with technology, but the courses are straightforward and simple to navigate. As healthcare looks toward the future, I am surprised there are not more online schools like this one. I have to say all in all excelsior was a fulfilling experience for me and helped me reach my career goals and I have no regrets whatsoever. Some may be afraid of a job not wanting to hire you because of graduating from an online school, but that is not true at all, as lots of people are impressed and realize that you have what it takes to be a hard worker. Maybe online school is not for everyone but those that are willing should give it a shot!!!