Graduate School

Only a few months after enrolling in Bentley University’s Part-Time MBA program, Tony Murphy accepted a job as vice president of Information Technology (IT) at a Massachusetts-based technology company.

He decided to pursue an MBA after two decades in the field of IT. “I really felt I needed to understand a business end to end,” explains Murphy. “It was only then that I could formulate and execute an IT strategy that would benefit the company and its customers.”

Bill Starner, director of the MBA program and a management professor at Bentley University, has seen it happen time and time again: large, multinational employers supporting promising employees in their decision to attend an MBA program in a part-time format, in hopes of seeing them move up the ranks when they’re done.   

Bentley's MS in Accounting earned high marks recently in Eduniversial's annual rankings of best graduate accounting and auditing in North America, coming in 28th. Eduniversal bases its rankings on three main criteria: program reputation, salary of first employment, and student satisfaction.