Excelsior Medical College (Boston, Massachusetts)

Excelsior Medical College was a Massachusetts-based scholastic enterprise (diploma mill), incorporated by Alfred Booth, who was earlier involved with the Bellevue Medical College of Massachusetts. The college was in operations, legally, until 30 June 1883 when the Massachusetts legislature passed laws forbidding the conferring of medical degrees by corporations unless authorised by the state. Despite this, diplomas continued to circulate, even a decade later, as Booth was convicted in 1893 by the state of New York for illegally peddling the Excelsior diplomas from his small New York City apartment.