Mission and Focus
Academic Mission and Areas of Focus
Bentley educates students and generates new knowledge by uniting the rigor, relevance, creativity and intellectual dynamics of business and the liberal arts.
Our areas of major focus in curricula and research, or strategic domains, are:
- Arts and Sciences
- Business and Information Technology
- Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Global Commerce and Culture
The Undergraduate College prepares students for careers and for life, educating graduates who are professionally skilled, culturally literate, creative and socially responsible. We do so by offering:
- innovative and integrated business, and arts and sciences curricula, enabled and enhanced by technology;
- courses and programs throughout the curriculum that interweave the arts and sciences, and business;
- co- and extra-curricular activities that emphasize global experiences, community service, creative endeavor, and engagement in the real world of professional practice;
- a dynamic campus life full of intellectual, social, creative, and athletic opportunities, and infused with cultural diversity and community spirit.
The McCallum Graduate School prepares students for careers in services-oriented, information-intensive professions. We do so by offering:
- a distinctive array of MS programs, each offering the depth, sophistication, and orientation to emerging practice necessary to launch and advance careers in the knowledge-based, service professions;
- an MBA designed to educate leaders of knowledge-based, service professions, emphasizing the impact of IT on business practice, and the integration of business processes across functional disciplines;
- a school-wide emphasis on ethics and social responsibility;
- extensive opportunities to interact with the business community through field-based coursework, consulting projects, work experiences and career advising.
