While we welcome all prospective students to our courses no matter their background, international applicants are required to organise their own visa requirements. We are a small private school and unable to provide grant funding towards tuition fees, or to organise visas for you. Our practitioner level courses generally run from September to June each year, and we require all students to take all classes before proceeding through each of the 4 years.
For information about visas please click here.
Please make sure you have qualified for a visa before submitting an application form, or renting accommodation.
We have been asked many times if we can offer an online course for international students, however we do not believe this is a good way to train students as herbal medicine is very much a hands-on subject. We also currently don’t have the staff or funding to organise anything like this. Some of our lecturers may be available to come and teach in your country or even help you establish a school, but you would obviously have to cover all of their expenses.
For students looking for other options, the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine offers short live introductory courses and correspondence courses. These courses do not give you a license to practice herbal medicine but can give you an introduction to Western herbal Medicine and you can meet some of the tutors who also lecture for Excelsior. It also gives you an idea of our unique teaching style. It is a good stepping stone course.
David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies offers practitioner level courses both live in the United States and online for international students. This is an Eclectic herbal school combining Western, Chinese and Native American approaches from a very experienced crew. Graduates from this school can establish as practitioners in the US but you would need to check the legal requirements in your own country.
Please check by for updates from time to time, as our policies may be subject to change.
