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99 Percent of Bentley’s Class of 2021 is Employed or Attending Graduate School

March 14, 2022
Ninety-nine percent of Bentley University’s undergraduate Class of 2021 graduates are employed, attending or planning to attend graduate school, according to data reported six months after their graduation. Bentley graduates also reported an increase in…

Statement from Bentley University

March 13, 2022
Bentley University is aware of a video circulating online, allegedly of a professor, that includes crude and violent comments. This video was shared with the university earlier this week and was immediately turned over to an external investigator, who is…

Bentley to Celebrate the Inauguration of E. LaBrent Chrite, PhD, as Ninth President on April 5 and 6

March 7, 2022
Ceremony will feature business and higher education leaders including entrepreneur and investor Marcelo Claure ’93, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) President and CEO Michael L. Lomax, Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar and University of Illinois…

Bentley Named a Top University for Long-Term Return on Investment

February 18, 2022
A Bentley education delivers among the highest return on investment in the country, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.  The report ranks Bentley No. 8 among colleges and universities offering the…

Badavas Center sponsors ‘Academic Innovation for the Public Good’ virtual book series

February 16, 2022
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it,” says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund and recipient of the 2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom…


 

Bentley Collaborates with KPMG to Transform Accounting with More Analytics

February 14, 2022
The advent of big data, analytics, blockchain and machine learning is creating exciting changes in the field of accounting — and requiring new skills. Bentley University is working with Big Four accounting firm KPMG to develop curriculum for a new Master’s in…

Mike Hill ’97 To Succeed Bob DeFelice as Baseball Coach

February 9, 2022
With the start of his 54th season days away, Bentley University baseball Coach Bob DeFelice announced today that this will be his final spring leading the Falcons. Vaughn Williams, who followed DeFelice as Bentley’s director of Athletics in September 2020,…

Nearly 300 Attend MLK Jr. Celebration

February 9, 2022
Participants in this year's MLK Celebration (pictured above) included Isaura Beltre ’99, MSIAM ’02, Hassan Hassan ’22, Mukosolu Obukwelu ’22, Arafat Sheikh Rasheed ’22, Samantha Applebaum ‘22, Ysanel Luciano ’22, Eval Silvera ’99 and Farrah Jazeh MBA ’21…

Bentley University Names Sanjay Putrevu as Dean of Business

December 6, 2021
Sanjay Putrevu, Ph.D., an experienced administrator and nationally recognized scholar in marketing, has been named the next dean of business at Bentley University. The appointment comes after an extensive, nationwide search with input from a diverse cross-…

‘Let’s Get to Work’

December 3, 2021
From the President What a semester it’s been. As I continue to meet more members of our great community in this, my first fall at Bentley, I’m reminded time and time again why I was drawn to this extraordinary university. From day one, I’ve seen…