Walsh College

WALSH COLLEGE

Walsh College (www.walshcollege.edu), southeast Michigan’s largest graduate business college, is a private, non-profit, upper-division all-business college offering professional certificates, bachelor, master, and doctoral programs  to 4,500 students at two campuses, three southeast Michigan university centers and online. Walsh offers a broad range of high-quality programs in fields such as accounting, finance, information technology and assurance, management and leadership, marketing, and taxation. Faculty members integrate application and theory to prepare students for successful corporate and entrepreneurial careers, and employers value and seek out Walsh graduates for their practical business education. Walsh cultivates student and alumni entrepreneurs through the Blackstone LaunchPad and furthers education among the business community through The Walsh Institute.

 The College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (www.ncahlc.org; phone: 312. 263.0456), The Association for Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP, www.acbsp.org), and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE, www.iacbe.org).

Entrepreneurship

The Walsh Institute is a division of Walsh College and offers a collection of resources designed to accelerate growth among businesses in Southeast Michigan.  Walsh Institute services focus on the critical elements of every business: leadership and strategy, human resources, operations, marketing and finance.

They include:
Blackstone LaunchPad: Funded by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, and in partnership with New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan, Automation Alley, University of Miami and Wayne State University, this program helps aspiring entrepreneurs develop and launch their businesses. As the first of its kind in Michigan, it offers fully enrolled, for-credit Walsh students and degreed Walsh alumni the opportunity to assess the feasibility of their ideas for starting and growing for- and non-profit ventures. 

Custom and business-specific research: Quantitative and qualitative research on everything from customer satisfaction to product concept testing. Walsh’s onsite focus group suite is also equipped for audio and video recording, and in-person observation.

Business 360 Certificate Program: A series of short, intensive workshops taught by successful, working experts. Example topics include accounting for non-accountants and business law basics.

Customized Business Training: Walsh faculty-taught sessions tailored to a company’s core issues. Topics range from implementing technology changes to industry-specific certifications.

Entrepreneur Center: For-credit courses centered on business innovation and small business management.

Leadership Center: Educational programs for owners and management teams of small and family business. Programs include affinity groups, workshops and discipline specific conferences.

TheWalshInstitute.com: Content-rich, no-nonsense website for busy business owners. Features include an online community, best-practice case studies, a directory of workshops and certificate programs, and a calendar of relevant events.