Walsh College

Walsh College of Accountancy and Business Administration, founded in 1922, is a non-profit business school based in Troy, Michigan, offering a broad range of business and related technology degree programs and granting certificates and degrees at the bachelor and master levels with satellite locations in Novi, Clinton Township, and Port Huron, as well as online. Walsh College offers programs in fields of accounting, taxation, finance, information technology and assurance, management and leadership, and marketing.

Eighty-seven percent of undergraduates transfer from a community college. Walsh College requires a minimum of 60 semester credit hours (30 of which must be in liberal arts) from all entering undergraduate students. More than 4,400 students enrolled during the 2011-2012 academic year. Walsh College has 27,000 alumni worldwide. More than 85 percent live and work in Michigan.

During the 2013-14 academic year, over 1,200 companies recruited at Walsh College, including the Big Four Accounting Firms. Students and alumni could access more than 2,600 job opportunities posted through the Career Services Office. In fall 2010, Walsh College opened its doors for the Blackstone Launch Pad, which provides students and alumni entrepreneurs with free advice and access to industry experts.

The majority of the faculty members come from the real world of business; 80% are actively employed in the business community. If all of the Faculty business experience was added up the Faculty has 3,000 years of business experience in more than 70 different business, technology, and educational certifications or designations

Over $300,000 in scholarship funds are available.

Walsh College assists the community in ongoing volunteer efforts: Blackwell Institute in Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Focus: HOPE, Gleaners, U.S. Marines, and Vets Returning Home, Inc.

The college has two main campuses in Troy and Novi and offers classes at two other university center locations, as well as online. Classes are also offered in Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan at the University Center at Macomb Community College, and in Port Huron at the University Center at St. Clair County Community College.

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