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Bentley University

  • Statistics

    Location:
    Waltham, MA
    Setting:
    Suburban
    Public/Private:
    Private
    Undergraduates:
    4,237
    Selectivity:
    More Selective
    Acceptance Rate:
    43 %
    Tuition and Fees:
    $38,328
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  • Summary

    A strong business school just outside Boston, Bentley's small but intense classes and its internship program strive to prepare students for the real world.

    Bentley's focus on technology sets it apart from its competitors. Students enjoy cutting-edge facilities, including an interactive trading floor that serves both as a classroom and as preparation for the real business world. At almost 5,000 undergrads, Bentley straddles the line between a small

    and a medium-size school: students enjoy a tightly-knit residential campus with a lively social scene -- and their own pub! They also enjoy accessible professors, top-notch connections that can lead to jobs and internships with what are known as "the big four," and modern amenities and facilities.

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  • Student Reviews

    Anthony

    The stereotype, from an outside perspective is that Bentley is full of international students (asian and indian) and that bentley is a good school. Within the school there are many different segments of students that can be put into categories. There are the athletes, decent portion but nothing substantial to the whole population of Bentley. The following groups tend to segment themselves from the rest of the school: football, hockey, and soccer. The soccer kids are not terrible, the hockey kids dont hang out or converse with anyone but the kids on their team and the other athletes, the baseball kids will converse with the football kids and most other people if you approach them or interact with them. The football kids are the biggest team on bentley and thus associate with moslty/only other football kids. There is a small/decent size fraternity population at Bentley. Their parties are mostly filled with younger years (freshman and sophmore). Foreign students associate primarily with each other: Spain with Spain, Indian with Indian, South America with South America. I have had many interactions with these groups of students only because I have had many jobs on campus where they work and my roomate is very social with them. Bentley has a decent marijuana afficianado crowd and it is slowly growing in numbers, especially with the recent incoming freshman class and in fraternity life. Everyone at Bentley (99%) is dedicated to completing school work and securing a job by their junior year. Bentley drives this into their students I have plenty more about the different stereotypes and clicks at Bentley but I have taken up enough of your time on this questions
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  • Student Ratings

    1= Low/Not Active10 = High/Very Active
    9
    Professors Accessible  
    4
    Intellectual Life  
    10
    Campus Safety  
    3
    Political Activity  
    4
    Sports Culture  
    2
    Arts Culture  
    4
    Greek life  
    9
    Alcohol Use  
    5
    Drug Culture  

  • Additional Info

    Bentley began as a school of accounting and finance in 1917 and expanded over the 20th century. First it became the four-year College of Accounting and Finance. It then moved from its original campus in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston proper to its current, more spacious campus in Waltham, and it added a liberal arts curriculum, which allowed it to alter its name to the more general Bentley College. Finally, after the creation of a graduate school, it rechristened itself Bentley University in 2008.

    The 163-acre campus is just outside of Boston in cushy Waltham, MA. The red-and-white colonial-style buildings give the school a unified, classical look. Most students choose to live in official college apartments or suites clustered in the center of campus, near the Student Center.

    A free shuttle transports students who want to get into the city to Harvard square as well as to nearby towns. Another intra-campus shuttle runs in a continuous loop.

    Waltham, MA, is a wealthy suburb of Boston on the Charles River. Brandeis College is also in the neighborhood, and a free shuttle connects the campus to the city, as do numerous bus lines.

    What are the major traditions on campus? Write a review and let us know!

    R. Marcelo Claure '93, Chairman, CEO and President, Brightstar Corporation

    Daniel Welbeck '84, Chief Operation Officer & Boardmember of Radioshack

    Elkin B. McCallum '67, Chairman and CEO (retired), Jo-Ann Fabrics Corporation

    Charles Taylor '77, former president of Liberia

    The Bentley Falcons play on 23 varsity teams in the NCAA Division II, except for ice hockey, which competes in Division I. The rugby and basketball teams are stand-outs -- the rugby team won the Best of the East tournament in 2008 -- and intramural sports for both fall and spring are popular.

    The Bentley men's basketball team holds the record for longest regular-season winning streak in the NCAA Division II.

    Bentley also has a campus in Bahrain.

    The residence halls on campus are clustered either on North Campus, Lower Campus, or Upper Campus. Upper-classmen generally live in condo-like, multi-person accommodations in Kresge Hall, Collins Hall, the Orchard Apartments, or the Copley Residences near the fieldhouse. Freshmen live a bit apart in a more traditional set of dorms, containing doubles and triples, known as the Trees.