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Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)

Review Excelsior College's HEOA compliance responses grouped by the applicable HEOA section numbers shown below. Section numbers not appearing in the listed sequences are not applicable and have been intentionally omitted. 

120 through 132-15

120(a)(2)(B) Drug and Alcohol Violations Reporting

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128(e) Truth in Lending Act

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128(e)(3) Student Self-Certification

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132(h) Price Calculator

132-1 Statement of the institution's mission

132-2 Total number of undergraduate students that applied, were admitted, and were enrolled in the institution

Applied: 3,633

Admitted: 5,147

Enrolled: 1470

Note: Not all students (e.g. military students) are required to go through the application process.

132-3 Reading, writing, mathematics, and combined scores on the SAT and ACT for the middle 50% range of institution's freshman class

Not applicable/not collected. Excelsior College does not require SAT or ACT scores.

132-4 Number of first-time, full-time, and part-time students enrolled at the undergraduate and graduate levels

Not applicable - Excelsior students are part-time transfer students. Information regarding our part-time transfer students appears in the answer to section 132-5.
 

132-5 Number of degree or certificate seeking undergraduate students who have transferred from another institution

39,679 undergraduates

1,441 graduate students

41,154 total students

132-6 Percentages of male and female undergraduate students at the institution;

56% female

44% male

132-7 Percentage of first-time, full-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students who are from the state in which the institution is located

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students. The percentage of our part-time transfer students residing in New York state during the 2008-2009 academic year is 10.5%

132-8 Percentage of first-time, full-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students who are from other states

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students. During 2009-2010, the percentage of part-time transfer students residing in U.S. states other than New York State during the 2009-2010 academic year is 89%

132-9 Percentage of first-time, full-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students who are international students

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students. The percentage of our undergraduate part-time transfer students residing outside the United States during the 2009-2010 academic year is 1.2%

132-10 Percentages of first-time, full-time, degree- or certificate-seeking students disaggregated by race and ethnic background

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132-11 Percentage of undergraduate students who are formally registered with as students with disabilities if more than 3%

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132-12 Percentage of first-time, full-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students who obtain a degree or certificate within the normal time for completion or graduation, 150% of the normal time, and 200% of the normal time

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students.

Excelsior College is a member of Transparency by Design, which is currently working on a measure of learner progress toward degree completion that will apply to part-time and transfer students.

The results of this measure will be posted on the Transparency by Design Web site in the Fall of 2011.

132-13 Number of certificates, associate degrees, baccalaureate degrees, master's degrees, professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded

Certificates: 98
Post-Bachelor's Certificates: 9
Associate Degrees: 3132
Bachelor's Degrees: 2753
Master's Degrees: 172

132-14 Undergraduate major areas of study with the highest number of degrees awarded

Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies (BSL): 1911 (CIP code 24.0101)

Associate degree in nursing (ASN): 1705 (CIP code 51.3801)

132-15 Student-faculty ratio

Excelsior's student-faculty ration is 15-1.

132-16 through 154

132-16 Cost of attendance for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who live on campus and who live off-campus (and for public institutions, those costs further broken out for in-state and out-of-state residents)

This item is not applicable to Excelsior College. Excelsior College does not have first time full time undergraduate students, nor does it have on-campus housing.

132-17 Average annual grant amount awarded to a first-time, full-time undergraduate

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students. The average annual grant amount awarded to part time transfer students in 2009-2010 is $2,086 which represents the average annual Pell grant award.

132-18 Average annual amount of federal student loans provided to undergraduate students

$6,195

132-19 Total annual grant aid awarded to undergraduate students from federal, state, institutional, and other known sources

$2,502,029

132-20 Percentage of first-time, full-time, undergraduate students receiving federal, state, and institutional grants, student loans, and any other type of financial assistance the institution knows of that are provided publicly or through the institution (e.g., work study funds)

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students.

Of our undergraduate student population, 9% received federal, state, and institutional grants, student loans, and any other type of financial assistance the institution knows of that are provided publicly or through the institution (e.g. work study funds).

132-21 Number of students receiving Pell Grants

635

132-22 Institution's cohort default rate

0%

Our 2008 cohort students count as our first cohort and our first official cohort default rate is 0%

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), enacted on August 14, 2008, provides that, beginning with the 2009 cohort, the default monitoring period for CDR calculations is increased to three years.

The first of the three-year monitoring rates, the 2009 cohort, will be released during 2012.

Under the HEOA, institutional sanctions for high cohort default rates based on three-year monitoring rates will not be applied until three, three-year rates have been calculated and published. This will occur with the publication in September 2014 of the third three-year monitoring rate, the 2011 cohort. Until that time both two-year monitoring and three-year monitoring CDRs will be calculated.

132-23 Information on campus safety required to be collected under Section 485(i) of HEOA

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Section 132-24 Link to the institution's website providing further information on student activities, services for disabled students, career and placement services, and transfer of credit policies

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Section 132-25 Link to the appropriate section of the Bureau of Labor Statistic's website with regional data on starting salaries in all major occupations

Section 132-27 Availability of alternative tuition plans

Section 133 Textbooks

Section 152(a)(1)(A) Institution Disclosures to Borrowers

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Section 152(a)(1)(B) Institution Disclosures to Borrowers Specific to Private Loans

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Section 154(a) & (b) Direct Loan Disclosures

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433 through 487

Section 433(e)(1) Disclosures During Repayment

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Section 433(e)(2) Disclosures for Borrowers Having Difficulty Making Payments

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Section 433(e)(3) Disclosures Required During Delinquency

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Section 435 Institutional and Financial Assistance Information For Students (20 U.S.C. ยง 1092)

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Section 435-1 The institution's plans for improving the academic program of the institution

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Section 435-2 The terms and conditions of the FFEL, Direct and Perkins loans students receive.

Section 435-3 The institution's policies and sanctions regarding copyright infringement, including (a) an annual disclosure informing students that the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including peer-to-peer file sharing, may subject the students to criminal or civil penalties; (b) a summary of the penalties for violations of copyright laws; and (c) a description of the institution's policy, including sanctions, on unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing.

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Section 435-4 Student body diversity including the percentage of enrolled, full-time men, women, recipients of Pell Grants, and self-identified racial or ethnic minorities.

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Section 435-5 Placement information for the graduates of the institution's degree or certificate programs.

Employed Full Time: 86.7%
Employed Part Time: 8.3%
Not employed but seeking employment: 5.0%
Not employed and not seeking employment 1.7%
Retired: 1.3%

Field of Employment
Accounting: 0.2%
Business/Management: 2.9%
Communications: 0.5%
Computer Information/Technology: 4%
Construction: 0.4%
Counseling/Social Work: 0.5%
Criminal Justice: 0.7%
Electrical Engineering/Technology: 0.7%
Engineering: 1.5%
Financial Services: 0.9%
Health Care (non-nursing) : 2.4%
Higher Education: 0.9%
Holistic Health: 0.2%
Human Resources: 0.5%
Law: 0.4%
Marketing/Sales: 0.5%
Military Service: 10.9%
Nuclear Engineering Technology: 1.8%
Nursing: 61.5%
Physical Sciences: 0.2%
PreK-12 Education: 1.6%
Public Administration: 0.5%
Research (Health Science): 0.2%
Research (Physical Science): 0.2%
Other: 5.7%
 

Section 435-6 Graduate and professional programs in which graduates of the institution's four-year programs have enrolled.

Note: The data for this response is based on voluntary responses to the Alumni Survey. School of Liberal Arts graduates are not included in this data.

11.1% of responders to this question are currently pursuing a certificate program

20.4% of responders to this question are currently pursuing a Master's Degree

1.6% of responders to this question are currently pursuing a Professional Degree

1.9% of respondents are currently pursuing a PhD at this time

Section 435-7 The institution's fire safety report.

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Section 435-8 Retention rate of certificate or degree seeking first-time, full-time undergraduate students at the institution.

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students.

Excelsior College is a member of Transparency by Design, which is currently working on a measure of learner progress toward degree completion that will apply to part-time and transfer students. The results of this measure will be posted on the Transparency by Design Web site in the Fall of 2011.

Section 435-9 The institution's policy on vaccinations

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Section 485(a)(4) Completion/graduation rates disaggregated by gender, racial and ethnic subgroup, recipients of Pell Grants, recipients of FFEL or Direct loans who did not receive Pell Grants, students who received neither Pell Grants nor FFEL or Direct loans

Excelsior College is a degree completion institution and does not enroll first time full time students. Excelsior College is a member of Transparency by Design, which is currently working on a measure of learner progress toward degree completion that will apply to part-time and transfer students. The results of this measure will be posted on the Transparency by Design Web site in the Fall of 2011.

Section 485(b) Exit Counseling

Exit counseling is provided through the Federal Student Loan Servicing Web site (login required).

Section 485(f)(1) Criminal offenses

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Section 485(i) Fire safety

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Section 485(j) Missing Students

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Section 485(k) Penalties for Drug Violations

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Section 485(l) Entrance counseling

Entrance counseling is provided through the StudentLoans.gov Web site.

Section 487(a)(25) and 487(e) Code of conduct

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Section 485(a)(26) Crime victims

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Section 487(h) Preferred lender list