Bentley University (McCallum)

Business School Overview

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Ranking score and category

Rank Category Name #84 Best Business Schools

Specialties #38 in Part-time MBA

Business School Overview

The McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University offers graduate programs in these departments and concentrations: accounting, economics, finance, general management, marketing, management information systems, quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research, and tax. Its tuition is full-time: $34,500 per year and part-time: $1,218 per credit. At graduation, 68.2 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

Bentley University and its business school are located in Waltham, Mass., a few minutes from Boston. Graduate students at Bentley University have many master’s degree options through the McCallum Graduate School of Business. Students earning an M.S. attend class in the evenings, so they can work professionally by day, and they can earn their degree in accountancy, finance, financial planning, human factors in information design, information technology, marketing analytics, and taxation.

There are also different routes to an M.B.A. at McCallum, including the full-time, 11 month Bentley M.B.A. Students in the Bentley M.B.A. program are expected to have about five years of professional experience under their belts, and within the curriculum, they focus on the four themes of innovation, value, environments, and leadership. Full-time students with relatively little business experience can explore the Emerging Leaders M.B.A., which takes two years to complete and allows students to choose from eight concentrations. The Professional M.B.A. at McCallum is designed for working students, who attend class part time and have significant flexibility when it come to online education, scheduling, and receiving credit for prior classes. And in 21 months of full-time study, Bentley students can earn the Emerging Leaders M.B.A., paired with an M.S. in information technology.

McCallum Graduate School students can also learn in the Center for Marketing Technology; the Howard A. Winer Accounting Center for Electronic Learning and Business Measurement (ACELAB); the Trading Room, which simulates global financial markets; and the Design and Usability Center, where students conduct field studies, create web projects, and test the usability of their designs. Students can make the most of their master’s degrees by exploring McCallum’s Graduate Career Services, which hosts workshops, job fairs, mock interviews, résumé critiques, and job boards, among other things.

Admissions

Application deadline (U.S. residents)	March 15
Application deadline (international students)	December 1
Applicants (full-time)
Applicants (part-time)

Academics

Departments/concentrations

accounting marketing economics management information systems finance quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research general management tax

Student Body

Enrollment (full-time)	136
Gender distribution (full-time)

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $34,500 per year Part-time: $1,218 per credit
Required fees (full-time and part-time)	$404 per year
Required fees (executive degree program)	N/A

Salary

Average base salary	$75,616
Full-time graduates employed at graduation	68.2%

* Business School Overview details based on 2012 data