Expanding Career, Education, and Leadership for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

The EXCEL Program offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology is a four-year college program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) leading to two separate Certificates. The first is a Certificate in Academic Enrichment, Social Fluency, and Career Exploration and the second is a Certificate in Social Growth, Leadership, and Career Development.

EXCEL at Georgia Tech was founded in 2014 by Terry Blum, Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship and faculty director of the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact in the Scheller College of Business, and Cyrus Aidun, professor of mechanical engineering in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. In 2020, Excel became a unit within the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), which is housed within the Office of the Provost.