FAQs

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Fast Facts

Location Waltham, Massachusetts — just 10 miles from
downtown Boston
Size 4,000 full-time and 250 part-time undergraduate students, 1,390 graduate and PhD students
Founded 1917
Accreditation AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System)
Financial Assistance Received by about 70 percent of Bentley students
Faculty to student ratio 1:12
Average class size 25 per class with no courses enrolling more than 40 students
Student Activities More than 100 clubs and organizations available
Athletics Division II varsity programs offering 23 teams, Division I varsity ice hockey
Bentley Mascot Falcon
Greek Life 14 percent participation rate
Internships Completed by nearly 100 percent of the student body
Job Placement Rate Within six months of graduation, 94 percent of Bentley students are employed or enrolled in graduate school
Housing Guaranteed for all four years

National Rankings:

U.S. News and World Report 2010
  • Top 50 Undergraduate Business Programs (Nationally)
  • Top 10 (Master’s Universities - North)
  • #2 in the Master’s Universities (North) in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category
  • Service-Learning program was named one of the best in the nation in the "Programs to Look For" category
The Princeton Review (2010 edition)
  • Among the Best Colleges and Universities for 2010 and one of the Best Colleges in the Northeast
  • #12 — Best Career/Job Placement Services (2010 edition)
BusinessWeek Magazine (2010 edition)
  • Top 35 Undergraduate Business Programs (Nationally)
  • #5 Business Program (New England)

    In the rankings, BusinessWeek also assigns grades in key areas based on student surveys. Bentley received:

    • A+ in facilities and services
    • A in teaching quality
    • A in job placement