Excelsior College plans for transition to university

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Excelsior College is set to become a university. Excelsior will make the change on August 1.

It’s becoming a university because it meets the newly revised state Education Department definition of a university.

Excelsior is an online institution based in Albany.

It has more than 3,300 students and more than 23,000 alumni in New York state.