Founded in 1971 and located in Albany, N.Y., Excelsior College provides various educational services and learning opportunities to the students throughout the region. It specializes in providing a wide range of associate degree, graduate and undergraduate and online degree courses. The college operates through its schools, including school of business and technology, health sciences, liberal arts and nursing. Its business school offers a variety of education programs in general business, accounting, general, finance, global business, hospitality management, management of human resources, marketing, operations management, management information systems, and risk management and insurance. Its liberal arts school provides specialization in biology, chemistry, communication, criminal justice, law and society, economics, geography, geology, history, English, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, sociology, and world language and literature. The college also provides various student services, including residential facilities, outdoors program and recreational athletics program, health and food services, and spiritual programs.