A Century of Reinventing Business Education
When Harry C. Bentley first convened a class of 30 students on Huntington Avenue in Boston in 1917, his goal was to educate the next generation of accountants. Since opening our doors over 100 years ago, Bentley University has continuously reinvented business education and grown from those humble beginnings to become one of the top business universities in the U.S.
As a transformative lifelong-learning community, we prepare over 5,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students each year to use their business know-how to make a positive difference in the world. With a community of over 65,000 proud Falcon alumni, the impacts of a Bentley education stretch around the globe.
Through the years
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Breaking Ground in Waltham
See how campus looked in the 1970s
Milestones
1917
Bentley School of Accounting and Finance
1961
Bentley College of Accounting and Finance
1971
Bentley College
2008
Bentley University
Leadership
![President Chrite on Campus](/sites/default/files/styles/fancy_blockquote_image/public/2021-06/C5DS0293%201440x720.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=N5f9nhSB)
![Harry Bentley Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2017/02/07/Harry-Bentley-Nomination.jpg?h=69952b2b&itok=tL_SfeVZ)
Harry C. Bentley
Founder, first president
1917-1953
![Maurice Lindsay Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2019-09/archive_photo_000009_crop.png?h=56a0f465&itok=N7YcuNAW)
Maurice M. Lindsay
Second president
1953-1961
![Thomas Morison Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2019-09/archive_photo_000384_crop.png?h=a7e61e73&itok=rGWskSyt)
Thomas L. Morison
Third president
1961-1970
![Portrait of Gregory Adamian](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2019-09/archive_photo_001089_edit.png?h=7f88e73c&itok=Jjti7qNl)
Gregory H. Adamian
Fourth president
1970-1991
![Joseph Cronin Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2019-09/archive_photo_000015_crop.png?h=bcbf97f6&itok=XqB_fNjN)
Joseph M. Cronin
Fifth president
1991-1997
![Joseph Morone Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2019-09/26%20-%20Morone_crop_0.png?h=dfa08b6e&itok=1fohw87j)
Joseph G. Morone
Sixth president
1997-2005
![Gloria Larson Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2019-09/30%20-%20Larson%20bw_edit.png?h=91cf0bdd&itok=E61fJGg-)
Gloria Cordes Larson
Seventh president
2007-2018
![Alison Davis-Blake](/sites/default/files/styles/media_image_tablet/public/2020-07/AMDB%20Headshot.jpg?h=efb1312e&itok=_JTJv3EB)
Alison Davis-Blake
Eighth president
2018-2020