Welcome to the Finance & Data Career Community. Here you can explore many resources available to you and make connects while engaging in Excelsior Connects as well as find help, mentoring and build your network!
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Data science is an ever-growing, exciting career path for people who love math and science. If you’re a student looking to enter an innovative and analytical field, data science might be a good fit.
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If you plan on working in the U.S. as an accountant, you’ll likely want to become a certified public accountant (CPA). But what if you don’t plan on working in the U.S.? What if your career goals include living and …
For any student with an interest in numbers, one common question that may come up as they consider a career path is, “What jobs can you get with a finance degree?” The good news is that jobs with a finance …
Fortune 500 companies hire top talent to maintain high revenue generation and beat their competitors. Working in such a firm is attractive because it helps build a great network and presents many career growth opportunities.
The courses you take are an essential part of your career path. Get started today with the online course catalog to see what options are available and plan your academic journey!
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Occupation Description
Employment Trends
The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.
Top Employers
These companies are currently hiring for .
Education Levels
The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.
Annual Earnings
Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.
Technical Skills
A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.
Core Competencies
The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.
Job Titles
A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.
Meet the Community Team
DANIEL PASCOE AGUILAR Chief Diversity Office & Founding Director of the Center for Social JusticeMeet DANIEL
RUBI BLANCAS ORDUNA Program Director, Center for Social JusticeMeet RUBI
All rope teams are open to Excelsior students, faculty, staff, and members of the public. Even rope teams that specifically identify an identity or allyship are open to all member of the community and all are encouraged to visit, learn, and respectfully engage.
Todos los rope teams están abiertos a estudiantes, docentes, y personal de Excelsior, asi' como al público en general. Incluso los rope teams que identifican específicamente a una identidad o a una forma de alianza están abiertos a tod_ miembr_ de la comunidad. Alentamos a toda persona a visitar, aprender y participar de manera respetuosa.
Bruce Snowdeal, PhD, MBA, CDFM-A 
Silburn Palmer 
Najee Holverstott
