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You see innovation and entrepreneurship everywhere at the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology.
Prepare for today’s dynamic business environment with a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in finance, marketing, management, analytics, and more. You will benefit from a wealth of hands-on learning and networking opportunities, including corporate visitors, industry workshops, and experiential field trips that connect classroom learning with real-world practice.
The Jack Welch College of Business & Technology is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This exclusive accreditation signifies the quality and merit of the College's Business curriculum. It is only awarded to colleges after a rigorous evaluation and requires colleges to meet the highest level of standards for schools and colleges of business.
Additionally, Sacred Heart University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). NECHE is the regional accreditation agency for colleges and universities in the six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Three institutions in Greece, three in Switzerland, two in Lebanon and one in Bulgaria, Bermuda and Morocco, respectively, are also affiliated with NECHE.
Why choose the Welch College of Business & Technology?
Strong focus on applied learning with 60% of graduate courses using data from actual companies
Rich professional networking environment with 63% of graduate students holding full-time jobs at a variety of companies and an average undergraduate class size of 25 students
Established programs with more than 50-years history of graduating successful business students
Qualified and experienced faculty with 95% of our full-time faculty having doctoral degrees and having collectively worked a total 879 years in the corporate world
Graduate prepared to succeed and make a positive impact
99% of graduates were either employed full time or continuing their education 12 months post-graduation.
The median undergraduate starting annual salary is $65,000. Sacred Heart University has a strong reputation for providing top qualified candidates. Our recent graduates have been hired by companies such as:
Barnum Financial
Deloitte
EY LLP
ESPN
JP Morgan
KPMG LLP
M&T Bank
Madison Square Garden
Morgan Stanley
Oracle
PwC
Raytheon
TJX Companies
Vineyard Vines
Facts & Statistics
Poets&QuantsNamed one of the best undergraduate business schools in 2026
The Princeton ReviewBest Business Schools 2025
Top RankedNamed one of the Nation's Best Undergraduate Business Programs by U.S. News & World Report
FacultySpotlight
Sacred Heart University proudly recognizes our faculty for their scholarly achievement through their outstanding publishing efforts and industry experience.
Assoc. Professor, Accounting & Information Systems
Pannese, a SHU alum who has taught here for more than four decades, has worked for KPMG Peat, Marwick and the Internal Revenue Service as a field agent and appeals officer. A member of the alumni board, he has written questions for the audit and tax portions of the CPA exam and has published articles on current issues in taxation, forensics and business valuation in both academic and practitioner journals. He co-teaches in the volunteer income tax program, as well as teaching tax, business valuation and forensic courses.
Mission Statement
The Welch College of Business & Technology, rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition, educates leaders to make a positive contribution to the community and prepares them for success in the evolving and complex global business environment by nurturing ethical reasoning skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, data and technology literacy and global perspectives through student-focused teaching, experiential learning and impactful research.
Our learning community includes:
Full-time and part-time faculty members who are teachers, scholars and experienced professionals supported by administrative staff members
Traditional and non-traditional undergraduate and graduate business students
Working adults studying to obtain undergraduate and graduate business degrees
Alumni
Members of companies and organizations who provide employment, internships and advice
Rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition, we:
Operate the College of Business & Technology within an institution of Catholic higher education committed to the liberal arts
Strive to develop individuals who will act ethically and responsibly
Value scholarship as contributing to learning, understanding and the search for truth
Stress the primacy of teaching as the focus of our work
Value active, engaging and personalized learning experiences in and outside of the classroom
Believe personal attention fosters the growth and development of our students
Find strength in the rich diversity of the human family and invite participation in our community by persons of varied races, faith traditions, ethnic backgrounds and diverse opinions and beliefs
Value academic excellence in all of our programs
To fulfill our mission, we:
Foster academic rigor
Teach and advise students
Promote active participation by students in the learning process, including experiential learning both in and outside of the classroom
Emphasize ethical dimensions in our curricula
Partner with the business community to improve practice and align curriculum to evolving business needs
Engage in research in order to understand and contribute to the development of our discipline, its practice and ways in which it is taught
Give service to our College, University, profession and the wider community
Incorporate appropriate technology and teaching techniques in our classes
Work collaboratively to ensure that students develop an awareness of and appreciation for the resources and expertise available to them from the faculty and Sacred Heart University community
Emphasize to our students the importance and intrinsic rewards of being good citizens and the responsibilities of being educated persons.
The former GE global headquarters at 3135 Easton Turnpike in Fairfield, located down the street from our Park Avenue campus, serves as SHU's West Campus - an innovation hub for the Welch College of Business & Technology.
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