“Private Catholic university in North Canton, Ohio offering 70+ majors and global learning programs”
Walsh University is a private Catholic university in North Canton, Ohio, founded in 1960 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction and named after Bishop Emmet Walsh, whose $304,000 gift launched the college. Walsh started with sixty-seven students on 50 acres of former alfalfa fields; today it enrolls about 2,100 students across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, and it remains one of the smaller, more personal Catholic universities in the Midwest. Walsh College became Walsh University in 1993. Academically, Walsh offers more than 70 undergraduate majors and seven graduate programs, with real depth in the health professions: the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT), Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Physician Assistant Studies, and a growing portfolio of counseling, education, business, and theology graduate programs. Popular undergraduate majors include Nursing, Psychology, Biology, Education, and Business. Walsh also operates a campus in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, near Rome (opened 2007) and runs long-running global-learning programs in Uganda, Vietnam, and other sites, giving students uncommon opportunities to study abroad at a small university. Campus life centers on the Cavaliers — 26 NCAA Division II varsity teams competing in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference — along with an active Catholic campus-ministry program, service trips through the Blouin Global Scholars program, and a residential-college feel where most first-year students live on the 136-acre North Canton campus. Walsh's core values of faith, excellence, integrity, service, and community show up in everything from chapel liturgies to service projects in the surrounding Canton-Akron region.
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Official SourceRolling Admission
Walsh uses rolling admission; recommended to apply 5+ weeks before the intended start term.
Honors Competition Preference
Preferred deadline for Honors Competition consideration.
Blouin Global Scholars Preference
Fall Term 1 only; preferred deadline for the Blouin Global Scholars program.
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Tuition & Fees (All Students)
$35,745
/yr
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How life on campus actually feels — clubs, sports, traditions, housing realities, and how the school integrates with its city.
BSN, MSN, and DNP pathways with clinical partnerships throughout northeast Ohio (Aultman, Mercy, Cleveland Clinic affiliates); known for strong NCLEX pass rates and small clinical cohorts.
Walsh's health-professions flagship, home to the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) programs and Physician Assistant Studies.
Accredited undergraduate and graduate business programs with a values-based, ethics-driven curriculum; MBA and specialty master's in leadership and accounting.
Liberal-arts foundation of Walsh; strong psychology, biology (pre-med/pre-health), theology, history, and English programs within a Catholic-intellectual tradition.
Undergraduate and graduate teacher-preparation, plus M.A. in Counseling and Human Development; licensure pathways for Ohio educators.
4 years
Direct-admit BSN with cohort-based clinicals across Aultman, Cleveland Clinic Mercy, and other northeast Ohio health systems; small class sizes and one of Walsh's flagship programs.
3 years
Professional DPT program with strong clinical-rotation placements and CAPTE accreditation; a long-standing strength of Walsh and a driver of graduate enrollment.
4 years
Four-year honors-style program that pairs a renewable $1,500 scholarship with a global curriculum, international travel experience (including to Walsh's Rome campus), and a change-makers capstone.
Where alumni go after graduation — top industries, grad-school continuation, and the qualitative outcomes story.
Sticker price (annual, out-of-state): $35,745
Net-cost estimate is US-resident-only — international applicants are typically excluded from need-based aid at most schools and should treat the sticker price as the planning baseline.
