Charter Oak struggles as well, not just Excelsior

[miah]

From 1971 to 1998 The Board of Regent's operated Regent's College as an integral part of the University of the State of New York (New York's Higher Education Department.)  There was no need to offer courses because the University of the State of New York had 250 colleges and universities under its umbrella providing courses.  In 1998 it was renamed Excelsior College and given its own board of directors.  Instead of specializing with its unique mandate, it decided it wanted to be the 251st mediocre school.

Without the support of the other schools, it was on it's own.  It had to start making money.  There's no telling if it was a money-maker in it's former incarnation.

It was one of the 2 public distance learning colleges in NYS and was the primary DL college for nurses that wanted to get their RN bachelor degree without attending F2F classes; the other NYS DL college was Empire State College, which is still in existence and also offers Nursing degrees too (bachelor and masters) and Empire State's tuition is less than Excelsior's (although when you start adding in fees it might be getting closer to the Excelsior rates, although my guess is that ESC courses will still come in under EC's overall price.

Yes, the other large part of EC's DL student population was military.

Apparently nothing has really changed as to where EC draws their largest numbers of students.