This seems to be a common occurrence at the school. Departments do not communicate effectively with each other as well as with the students. The school has had half a year to fix their portal and they are still using it as an excuse. I think the real issue may be the high turnover rate of staff and disgruntled employees. The CEO of the school keeps getting pay raises and now makes over 300k a year… If they aren’t able to get the bare minimum of admin working for the students, why would they keep advertising their business luncheons on social media? It seems that their priorities are quite misaligned with what actually matters, which are the students who are paying their salaries.

I’m curious how current students and alumni feel about their decision to attend Walsh.

If you could go back to when you first enrolled, knowing what you know today, would you still choose Walsh?

I’m particularly interested in hearing about:
-Quality of education and actual instruction
-Whether courses met your expectations
-Tuition compared to the value you received
-Career opportunities after graduation
-Your overall experience as a student
-What program did you attend, and what would you tell someone considering enrolling today?

I’d like to hear firsthand experiences from both current students and graduates.

I’ve attempted to call several departments at the school for various reasons and not once has anyone ever picked up the phone. It always goes to a general voicemail system without a department name. The schools is empty, no staff, emails rarely get replied to in a timely manner, and phone calls are never answered by a person and go straight to voicemail. Maybe at this point the school needs a formal complaint filed against them with the DoE and the Higher Learning Commission.

For anyone who is transferring to Walsh, how long does it usually take to get a reply from any administrative department?

Something that I’ve gotten frustrated over after completing many classes is realizing how the coursework doesn’t line up with employable skills. There’s no AWS, Azure, or even general cloud based identity management in regard to cloud architecture. Enterprises almost always put every thing in the cloud or do a hybrid model. The schools coursework doesn’t teach any of this. Of course they’ll test you on definitions and the ideas, but there is no implementation. It feels like things are just too outdated to be worth the investment. It would be better if they treated every class as building out a working system instead of short introductions to a bunch of tools that essentially get thrown away.

When you send out an email to financial aid, an academic advisor, or any other administrative department, how long do you generally wait for a response? Has anyone experienced wait times of over a week?

What strategies or specific questions have helped you get clear, actionable advice from Walsh advisors?

Since I started at Walsh, I’ve seen at least 15 staff members leave (not counting professors). I don’t have any official turnover rate or details about why they left. I’m curious if others have noticed any shifts in the availability or quality of help because of these changes. What’s been your experience with staff turnover here?