I have been a student of Excelsior College for some time in the past.. This school used to be a "quality" school when it's called Regents External Degrees. After I have been absent for some years, I have returned to take some classes from Excelsior College. Whatever the word "Excelsior" means, the school is anything but excelsior. Their teachers have PhD degrees and are teaching classes that have nothing to do with their education. For instance, I took a class called International Economics. The instructor was very much against subsidies that our government gives to our farmers and automobile manufacturers. He believes that subsidies should be stopped, and is good for competition and good for the economy. I ask him what happens if as a result of withdrawing subsidies many companies will go out of business and we are left with only one car manufacturing company and one farmer? Is that not bad? Would they not have the monopoly on cars and sugars? Where is the competition when there is monopoly? Most of the teachers at Excelsior College get their jobs at Excelsior College because they have PhD degrees. The degrees that they possess often have nothing to do with what they teach. For instance, I know a PhD teacher who has a degree in Literature but teaches social science. What does he or she knows about social science? Excelsior College hires unemployed cheap teachers as long as they have PhD degrees. Avoid Excelsior College! Don't let them rip you off with their cheap teachers.