Admissions

Download Our App

Scranton Videos

Connect with Us

Contact Admissions

Office of Undergraduate Admissions
The Estate,
The University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
1-888-SCRANTON
(570) 941-7540
Fax: (570) 941-5928
admissions@scranton.edu
Admissions on Facebook

Colleen Tuohy '09

Watch Video

Hillsdale, N.J.
Finance Major, Economics Minor
Business Leadership Honors Program
President’s Alumni Liaison
P.R.I.S.M. (Portfolio of Responsible Investments under Student Management) Investment Club

From her first steps on our campus, Colleen Tuohy said it felt like home. “I definitely knew it was somewhere I wanted to get into,” she recalls of her visit to Scranton.

Connections in New York

Scranton had something else to offer the aspiring finance major – an alumni network. “Scranton has a lot of good connections in New York, and that’s where I ultimately wanted to be,” she says.

Colleen’s interest in the financial markets started while she was a 7th grader at St. John’s Academy in Hillsdale, N.J. While her classmates were lulled to sleep during a stockbroker’s career day presentation, Colleen was wide awake. “I still have a copy of the presentation given to us that day,” she says.

At first, she wanted to be a stockbroker, but then the new goal of working in the heart of New York’s financial industry came alive through the mentoring program offered by our Kania School of Management.

An Internship with AXA

Colleen Robin Raju, an alumnus and senior financial analyst with AXA Equitable, helped her get a highly competitive internship with the company.

She was one of only three interns from Scranton. Through the internship, Colleen worked on an original research project and met face to face with vice presidents of a leading financial services company.

At AXA, Colleen witnessed the promise of a Scranton education. She was competing with interns from Notre Dame and NYU. While at first they saw Scranton only as the hometown of The Office, “By the end of the internship, they knew that Scranton students were competent and could take charge,” says Colleen.

Scranton Pride Shines Through

That Scranton pride shines through almost everywhere Colleen goes. “You can be in an airport wearing a Scranton sweatshirt, and people will say ‘Oh, you go to Scranton!’”

Her involvement in the Business Leadership Honors Program has cemented another personal interest. Colleen says Scranton has provided leadership opportunities in ways that big schools just can’t. “It’s harder to become president of a club in a larger school,” she says.

Through leadership and service opportunities, like serving as a host for Royal Nights, Colleen built on the foundations of her Catholic high school education at a Catholic and Jesuit university. “It’s that extra little icing on the cake,” she says.