Walden University
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This article is about the Minnesota-based university. For the defunct university in Tennessee, see Walden University (Tennessee). For the fictional Walden College, see Doonesbury.
Walden University is a private for-profit online university headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and specialist degrees. The university is owned by Adtalem Global Education, which purchased the university in August 2021. The institution is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
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Motto | Education for Good |
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Type | Private for-profit online university |
Established | 1970 |
President | Michael Betz[1] |
Academic staff | 235 Full-time and 2,723 Part-time (Fall 2023)[2] |
Students | 42,312 (6,298 undergraduate) Fall 2022[3] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Primarily online[4] |
Website | www.waldenu.edu |
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The Carnegie Classification lists Walden among “Doctoral Universities: Doctoral/Professional Universities”[5] Walden is a high-volume granter of healthcare administration master's degrees, Master of Science in Nursing degrees, and public health doctoral degrees in the U.S., according to the National Center for Education Statistics IPEDS database.[6]