Facts About Bentley
Campus and Location
- Set on 163 acres in Waltham, Massachusetts
- Minutes west of Boston
- Free daily shuttle from campus to Harvard Square in Cambridge
Enrollment
- Undergraduate students: 3,994 full time; 247 part time
- Average undergraduate class size: 24
- About 83 percent of full-time undergraduates live on campus
- Graduate students: 1,373
- Average graduate class size: 21
- PhD students: 20
- International students represent 8 percent of the undergraduate student population, 12 percent of the graduate students and 50 percent of the PhD enrollment
Faculty
- More than 271 full- and 202 part-time faculty members, who teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels
- 83 percent hold doctoral degrees
- Professors are accessible, committed to excellent teaching and advising as well as to pursuing research and scholarship in their field
- Many have significant experience in the business world
- Faculty-student ratio is 1 to 12
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Curriculum
- Focused on the fields of knowledge found at the intersection of business and the liberal arts: Business and Information Technology, Ethics and Social Responsibility, and Global Commerce and Culture
- A leader in integrating information technology into the business curriculum
- Bachelor of science degrees in 11 business fields; bachelor of arts majors in six arts and sciences disciplines
- Graduate school offers eight Master of Science degrees, an integrated MS + MBA degree, and an MBA with 16 areas of concentration.
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Tuition and Fees for 2008-2009
- Undergraduate: Tuition is $33,030. Room and board (double room, meal plan) is $11,320. The mobile computing fee is $1,200; the activity fee is $258; and the student health insurance (if not covered by parents' plan) is $866.
- Graduate: Tuition for each three-credit MBA and Master of Science course is $3,150.
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Careers
- Within six months of graduation, more than 95 percent of Bentley students find professional employment or enroll in graduate school
- Recruiting programs bring more than 1,200 job opportunities to students each year
- 93 percent of students take on at least one professional internship while at Bentley
- Workshops, individualized advising, and resource materials help students fine-tune career goals
- Many of Bentley’s 44,500 alumni serve as contacts and resources for students, through panel discussions, informational interviews, Mentor Program
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History
- Founded by Harry C. Bentley in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance
- Offered first four-year bachelor of science program in 1961
- Moved from downtown Boston to Waltham, Mass., in 1968 to accommodate growing enrollment and student demand for education blending academic study and extracurricular opportunities
- Approved in 1971 to grant both BS and BA degrees; changed name to Bentley College
- Graduate school of business is founded in 1974
- In 1999 the graduate school is named for 1967 alumnus Elkin B. McCallum in honor of a generous gift made by the McCallum Family Foundation.
- In late 1990s, pioneered integration of information technology into the core business curriculum
- The Smith Academic Technology Center opens in September 2000 to serve as the focal point for business and technology initiatives on campus.
- Two additional residence halls open on the Southeast campus in September 2001, helping to offset growing demand for on-campus housing among undergraduates.
- A new baseball field debuts in 2001, named in honor of the school's first and only baseball coach, Robert A. DeFelice. The athletic expansion project also includes a new soccer field, an outdoor track and six tennis courts
- Bentley expands its campus to the Middle East in 2002 with Bentley in Bahrain program in partnership with Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF). Program offers students in Bahrain and surrounding Gulf States the opportunity to learn from Bentley professors and earn a Bentley degree.
- Third residence hall, housing 285 students, opens in September 2004.
- Construction is completed in 2005 on two apartment-style residence halls on Forest Street, now known as the North Campus. The two buildings, which house 118 students, are the first Bentley-built housing for students away from the main campus. Construction on two additional buildings of the same style begins in 2006. Approximately 80 percent of students now live on campus.
- The Liberal Studies major is launched in 2005, a first-of-its-kind program for a business school, allowing students to major in business and the liberal arts, receiving credentials in both.
- First PhD programs in Business and Accountancy are approved by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education in November 2005. First class is welcomed in September 2006.
- The Dana Athletic Center completes renovation and expansion in spring 2006. Fitness facility adds 30,000 square feet including expanded state-of-the-art exercise room, food court and pedestrian plaza.
- Multi-million dollar renovation of the Bentley Library is completed in spring 2006. Newly designed interior features a cyber café, art gallery, significant increases in study carrels, complete wireless access, increased PC access with Internet and power ports throughout the building, individual and collaborative study rooms for students, and research space for faculty. Online resources have virtually doubled, and storage for Bentley’s dynamic book collection has grown by 50 percent.
