When Yoni Philosophe MS+MBA ’17 took out his phone during an IT course at Bentley, it wasn’t because he was bored. In fact, it was just the opposite. He was texting new ideas to fellow co-founders of DestaPlan travel app.
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Doug Petersen (MSIT ‘17) arrived at Bentley University as a transfer student.
Though he joined his classmates as a junior, he immediately became involved on campus and the Waltham community. He spent his years playing for Bentley Rugby, working for the Bentley Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center (BSLCE), and interning in the accounting department of a local business.
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How does an English major end up as a business technology analyst? For Shelby Cannon (MBA and MSIT ’15), it’s been a winding but logical journey.
She completed her BA in English Language and Literature/Letters in 2011, when the economy was still scrambling to recover from the 2008 Great Recession. It was difficult to find a job at the time, and she ended up accepting an offer from a prior internship.
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Marco Milea (MBA and MSIT ’17) has been using technology to solve social problems for years.
Upon completing his undergraduate degree in business administration (BBA), he joined City Year and then the Peace Corps, where he used his business acumen to make a more impactful difference in the community he was serving.
“When I helped set-up a computer lab in a Nicaraguan school and saw how it made available information and resources the students wouldn't have had the opportunity to access before,” Milea explains, “I knew I wanted to focus my career in Information Technology.”
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Paul Brassil (MSIT ‘01) first got into tech in the early 1990s.
He studied business as an undergraduate but didn’t know what he wanted to do for a career afterward. Looking through job postings at the time, he saw that most were looking for programming and tech professionals. He thought: “I’ve got to learn this - this is where the future’s going.”
So Brassil took a risk and accepted an entry-level job at a help desk for a software company in Cambridge.
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When does technology cause more harm than good?
For Xinru Page, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems at Bentley University, this question has been the focus of her research since she was a student at Stanford University.
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Mae Keefe (MSIT ’18) had no plans to pursue a career in IT when she completed her BA in Philosophy in 2011.
Instead, she found a job in customer service, working at a small software company. Though she answered questions about technology daily, she never directly interacted with the software’s code.
Eventually, Keefe decided to change that. She saw how her company’s software improved businesses and wanted to learn the hard skills, such as programming languages, required to design similar tools herself.
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Xu Han (MSIT ’15) quickly realized understanding data in the business world would provide him with job security for his future. After completing two business internships as an Economics and Business undergraduate student at the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, he still craved a more direct focus on data analysis.
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Bentley's MS in Information Technology earned high marks recently in Eduniversial's annual rankings of best graduate IT programs in North America, coming in 25th for the second year in a row. Eduniversal bases its rankings on three main criteria: program reputation, salary of first employment, and student satisfaction.
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