A partnership between Excelsior University and PITC Institute will give eligible graduates of PITC's Practical Nurse Associate in Specialized Technology degree program a 10% discount on undergraduate ...

Benefits from New York State’s much-touted Excelsior Scholarship have gone to 3.2 percent of undergraduates statewide, and the free-tuition program has covered far more students outside New York City ...

Students at CUNY aren’t getting their fair share of the state’s Excelsior scholarships, according to a new analysis. Just 20.7 percent of the 20,086 scholarships went to CUNY students, even though ...

ALBANY — A new report shows that more than two-thirds of students who applied for the state’s Excelsior scholarships were denied the benefit during its inaugural year, largely due to insufficient ...

The Urban Institute released a new report assessing how successful New York State’s free college program, Excelsior, has been in the five years since it was instituted. The verdict is not good. The ...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship program has encouraged recipients to stay in school and complete their degrees more quickly, according to new numbers from higher education officials ...

I have always believed that if we are committed to fairness and equality of opportunity for everyone, college should be free. While we are willing to guarantee free access to education via the public ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is warning incoming SUNY and CUNY freshmen he may have to slash the tuition relief program for middle class families because of the fiscal crisis fueled by the coronavirus crisis — ...