The mission of the EXCEL program is to increase student success in the first two years of their college career in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) discipline. To accomplish this mission the EXCEL program offers the following benefits to EXCEL participants.

• The feeling of a small college experience (200 EXCEL students will be recruited every year) while they pursue a STEM degree in a large college (UCF has currently 50,000 students),
• On-campus housing to incoming freshmen in a EXCEL block (*)
• Priority Scheduling for the Common EXCEL courses,
• An EXCEL Center, dedicated for the needs of the EXCEL students where free math and science tutoring will be provided,
• An EXCEL Academic Advisor to assist in the planning of academic schedule who will reside in the EXCEL Center,
• A paid undergraduate research experience in the spring semester of the sophomore year which will be supervised by EXCEL faculty and will lead to other rewarding experiences at UCF (e.g., RAMP, McNair programs),
• The creation of a UCF-EXCEL learning community consisting of the UCF-EXCEL students, 20 dedicated UCF-EXCEL faculty in a variety of STEM disciplines and UCF staff affiliated with a number of UCF support resources currently present at UCF.
  
  (*) EXCEL Students who get a housing contract from UCF Housing will be placed in the same building, dedicated to the EXCEL cohort

For more information about the EXCEL Program, please click on the EXCEL Informational brochure button, and/or Contact Us button. To apply for the EXCEL program please click on the EXCEL application link (EXCEL home page). The EXCEL application link is available, at the end of the fall semester of every academic year, for prospective freshman UCF students to apply on line.