Bentley’s McCallum Graduate School of Business

93. Bentley University

McCallum Graduate School of Business

175 Forest Street

Waltham, Massachusetts 02452

Admissions: 781-891-2108

Email: bentleygraduateadmissions@bentley.edu

Website: http://www.bentley.edu/graduate/mba/ftmba.cfm

The Bentley MBA program is designed for students with at least one year of full-time post-graduate work experience. Five business fundamental courses are among the ten courses that make up the first year of the program. All students take a course in IT, analytical skills, and business processes to insure understanding of how all aspects of a business organization fit together.

Year two includes four required courses that provide a grounding in business and technology. Two courses (Global Strategy and Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities) prepare students for the year-long program capstone, Management Consulting Teams, where faculty-supervised teams build upon first-year fieldwork and courses as they learn and apply consulting skills for clients’ strategic management problems. The Bentley MBA is only one of a few in the U.S. that requires students to work in a consulting capacity in two different ways; Business Process Management and a second Field Project course. Working in teams with a faculty adviser, students identify and address relevant issues, offering recommendations to support managerial decisions.

Latest Up-to-Date MBA Rankings:

Poets&Quants (2013): 93

BusinessWeek (2012): NR

Forbes (2013): NR

U.S. News & World Report (2014): 96

Financial Times (2014): NR

The Economist (2013): NR

Ranking Analysis:

In the Poets&Quants ranking, Bentley dropped from No. 89 in 2012 to No. 93 in 2013. Going by the latest U.S. News ranking, Bentley is likely to drop further: though it put the school at 84th place in 2o13, it put it at 96th place in 2014.

Tuition & Fees: $35,000

Average GMAT: 590

GMAT Range (mid-80%): 514-680

Average GPA: 3.30

GPA Range (mid-80%): 2.7-3.7

Acceptance Rate: 66.4%

Full-Time Enrollment: 169

International: 55.6%

Minority: 9.5%

Female: 42%

Average Age: 26

Average Base Salary: $71,358

Average Signing Bonus: $7,125

Percentage of MBAs with Job Offers at Graduation: 31.6%

Percentage of MBAs with Job Offers Three Months Later: 73.7%