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Bentley University is ranked  #1 in several “Best Colleges by Major/Field of Study” rankings by College Factual, an online portal designed to assist students in a selecting a college.

After noticing the need for improvements in the Boston Public School district transportation system, Bentley's User Experience Graduate Association (UXGA) and Human Factors in Information Design graduate students Rachel Graham and Nicole Gerhard decided to host a "hackathon" to help come up with innovative ways to make time spent riding the bus more engaging and productive for every Boston Public School student.

Studying abroad for Kyle White ’18 didn’t just mean an international adventure; it also meant deepening global Bentley friendships. As a Santander fellow at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Kyle was in the shoes of Austrian classmates who had studied abroad at Bentley the year before. Now, he was the one immersing himself in a foreign culture and classes — and it was an experience he says he’ll never forget.

Carolyn Magid was there at the beginning.

The associate professor of Philosophy and her colleagues were teaching the course Values and Choices, and wanting to help students better understand and empathize with people different from themselves. The faculty took the class to a local homeless shelter to serve meals, in the process creating one of the early service-learning courses in the country.

As an undergraduate, Latoya Hall HFID ’16 studied Design and Visual Communication at San Francisco State. While spending part of her senior year abroad at Brunel University of West London, she learned the value of incorporating ergonomics and human factors into the design process.

Little did she know it’d be a few years before she could put those lessons into practice.

“The way that I approach my classes is experiential in nature,” says Economics Professor Aaron Jackson, winner of Bentley’s 2015 Innovation in Teaching award. “So I not only teach the theories that come out of the textbooks but how to apply them to what we see in the real world.”

By Jaclyn Leduc I remember pulling onto 175 Forest Street and gazing at the sign at the entrance. Bentley University. I read it in my head, and internally the excitement was all too overwhelming. I had worked so hard to get there, and I’m not sure if it was the fact that my car was […]

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Bentley Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences P. Thompson (“Thom”) Davis has been researching the history of deglaciation in Canada and New England for decades.  Recently, he and two colleagues (Asst. Prof. Jeremy Shakun at Boston College and Professor Paul Bierman at The University of Vermont) were awarded a three-year, $265,117 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the timing and rate of the thinning of the southeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) during the last major period of deglaciation after the Pleistocene epoch, or the “Ice Age.” 

Forbes.com, Fortune and USA Today are just a few of the national outlets discussing The PreparedU Project's latest research. 

Bentley President Gloria Larson joined Bloomberg Radio’s Carol Massar, along with guest experts, to discuss what students can do to turn their interests and passions into a successful business endeavors.