FAQs

Here are the basics, but just in case you have some additional questions you can check out the various sections; and, of course, you can always contact our office.

Fast Facts

Location Waltham, Massachusetts — just 10 miles from downtown Boston
Size 4,235 full- and part-time undergraduate students; 1,381 graduate and PhD students
Founded 1917
Accreditation AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). Bentley is one of two business schools in the United States and 128 worldwide to earn EQUIS accreditation.
Financial Assistance Received by about 70 percent of Bentley undergraduate students in the form of grants, scholarships, work-study, and/or federal loans
Faculty to student ratio 1:14
Average class size 26 per class, almost all courses enroll no more than 40 students
Student Activities More than 100 clubs and organizations available
Athletics Division II varsity programs offering 23 teams, Division I varsity ice hockey
Bentley Mascot Falcon
Greek Life 14 percent participation rate
Internships Completed by nearly 100 percent of the student body
Job Placement Rate Within six months of graduation, more than 90 percent of Bentley students are employed or enrolled in graduate school
Housing Guaranteed for freshmen all four years; typically available for transfer students

 

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