The Excelsior Scholarship program applications are now open, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week. The program offers free tuition to eligible City University of New York and State University of ...

Excelsior Scholarship program applications are now open for the 2024-2025 academic year, and are available to first-time students and those who never received the scholarship from households that ...

The Excelsior Scholarship is just one of a number of state and federal financial aid programs on view at the New York State Higher Education Services Corp. website at hesc.ny.gov.

But for half of her college years, Hinkley also received an Excelsior Scholarship, a groundbreaking tuition-free college program that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law in 2017.

Applications are now being accepted for the New York State Excelsior Scholarship program, a program that fills a tuition gap after federal and state financial aid — providing the potential for a ...

But the Excelsior program is a signature policy idea promoted personally by Cuomo in 2017, when it was approved as part of the state budget that year. Awards began flowing that fall.

The Excelsior Scholarship is a little over a year old, which makes it a good time to take stock. In October 2017 as the program launched, Governor Andrew Cuomo proclaimed, “Our first-in-the-nation ...

The Excelsior Scholarship, in combination with other aid programs, allows eligible full-time students to attend a SUNY or CUNY two-year or four-year college tuition-free.

The Excelsior Scholarship application for new applicants for the 2021-22 academic school year is now open. The Scholarship, in combination with other aid programs, allows eligible full-time ...

NEW YORK — When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the Excelsior scholarship program offering free tuition to New York’s public colleges and universities last year, many of New York’s private ...

Most CUNY students did not benefit from the scholarship in the initial year of the program. Only 5 percent of first-time, first-year undergraduates in fall 2018 received Excelsior grants, while 72 ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a bill-signing event for the Excelsior Scholarship program, at LaGuardia Community College in New York, April 12, 2017. Hillary Clinton joined Cuomo on ...