Changes at Excelsior

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TESU and COSC have the benefit of being propped up by state taxes, and their rates are low for in-state students. Excelsior's model is unsustainable as a private college. With much cheaper competency-based programs, hardly anyone is going to want to pay $500 per credit. Online, out-of-state students pay that at University of Florida.

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When they made changes to their nursing program to enroll individuals who could actually graduate from their program instead of the previous admission policy of where everyone could get into the program it cut into their profits. It's great they're being proactive and selecting quality over quantity. I fear in the coming years some schools will be unprepared.

Getting sued is expensive, and high failure rates could have put them at risk of losing their nursing accreditation. Plus, an increasing number of states were putting additional requirements on Excelsior graduates. If it weren't for the new admissions requirements, I believe my state would have stopped recognizing Excelsior nursing degrees. Since Excelsior doesn't teach anything in its associate's program, students have to come in with clinical experience.

In states where their are dilemmas with EC nursing degrees such individuals can still find jobs with the VA, prisons ect. I currently work in HR for a mental health organization with several locations in North Florida and I'm continuously shocked by the amount of individuals I come across with EC nursing degrees. Wasn't their a thread on here years ago where an TESU alumni stated she was denied admission to a nursing program locally because she had a TESC/TESU BS degree?

EC has made an extremely large amount of revenue the past few years under the leadership of its previous president. Under the direction of its new president the school has decided to do away with many of its former policies and that included its open admissions policy under it's nursing program. But not only has the nursing program been affected but so has other school initiatives. They have pretty much shut down all the initiatives that the former president started and it has affected their bottom dollar. However, things appear now to be stabilizing.