Hi, everybody.
I'm Nicole.
I'm a junior here at Bentley and I'm a finance major and a management
minor.
My name is John.
I am a sophomore here at Bentley majoring in accounting.
So we're going to take you on a tour showing you
around campus for those of you who can't join us here in Waltham
Nicole's going to tell you
about the history of Bentley and I will meet you guys later
on the tour so Benltey was founded
in 1917 by Harry Bentley.
He taught at BU and other schools in the area
and he taught accounting, but he wanted
to teach his own methods.
So he just opened up his own school originally located
in the Back Bay of Boston.
We were an all-male accounting and finance
school in 1942, the school became coed in the 60s,
we moved to our current home right here in Waltham
and then in 2008 Bentley College became Bentley University
with the addition of our graduate school.
So here at Bentley we do have 4,200 undergraduate students
and 1,000 graduate.
Our campus is divided into three different tiers.
So right now we're on our uppermost
tier, which is academics focused.
We have our library all of our classrooms our professors
offices our middle tier of campus is more residential.
So we have our dining hall.
Most of our dorms and our bookstore and then lower campus
is athletics focused.
So we have our varsity fields as well as our gym.
So here at Bentley, we call ourselves a business university
because we have the resources of a university.
But that nice focus on business as such our courses
are a little bit different.
We have your general education courses.
That's what you're doing in high school now. Your history,
science, math, English all that fun stuff.
We also offer major courses so if you
major in accounting you'll take accounting courses marketing
it's marketing courses econ.
What do you take econ courses.
Nice and easy.
What's unique about Bentley is our third category of courses
our general business curriculum in this curriculum
you take a semester of everything in business. You'll take
some accounting, finance, marketing management
a little bit of everything. if
you don't know what you want to study yet that's totally OK.
These courses help you figure it out
if you know exactly what you want to study.
You learn what everybody else is learning and learning is
a very good thing, right.
That's why we do school.
So over here is Morison Hall.
Morison is home to professors offices professors at Bentley
are great.
They are required to have two office hours per week.
But most of them do a whole lot more than that.
They'll just say, hey, my door's always open if it's open.
Come on by.
You can go for help with tests quizzes homework
all that stuff or just to get to know your faculty members.
They are really great, really awesome people.
We have one professor for every 11 students in every class
here at Bentley is taught by a professor who either
has a PhD or a ton of real world experience
or they're a show off and they have both.
But with our office hours and all those great things
you get to know them and they get to know you too.
They are a great resource here.
at Bentley and a great part of the community.
Also in Morison is our Center for Marketing Technology.
It is a great Marketing Lab that we have.
So we have one of those two way mirrors.
you guys know where people can see
one way and the other group can't see the other way.
Nice and easy for watching focus groups.
They also have a Data Analytics Lab Mac lab Photoshop
awesome resources companies come to partner with our students
and use our resources Converse is a paid research study
where they pay you to wear a pair Converse shoes and at the
end, you get to keep the shoes too.
So that's pretty cool.
Also in Morison is our Service Learning Center, Service
Learning is a unique Bentley program that merges real world
experience with the education you're having here at Bentley.
So you can go and you can.
Go help the greater Waltham community.
People go out they do projects at the senior centers
at elementary schools using the knowledge
they're getting in their classes to go help the community.
So then over here, we have our nice academic building.
This is Adamian Academic Center.
So besides having classes in there.
We also do have our Center for Business Ethics,
which is the first of its kind.
So Bentley really emphasizes from your first day on campus
having strong morals and sticking by them.
So it's implemented in all our classes
here besides the Center for Business Ethics.
We also have our Center for Language
and International Collaboration Lab.
or just the CLIC lab and that's a foreign tutoring center.
So you don't have to take a foreign language at Bentley.
But if you're interested in it.
It's a great resource to have for tutoring
it is run by native speakers of the language.
So it's really great to learn about their culture. Because
most of the time they did grow up in that country
as well as if you're not able to take a foreign language
or it may not be in your schedule.
We do have online software available for all our students
here for free.
That's a great resource and it's something that our study abroad
students really utilize.
Speaking of study abroad we do have our Center for Study
Abroad.
Also in Adamian we have 52 programs
in 25 different countries.
So a lot to choose from.
We have the typical semester abroad.
We have our summer abroad internships abroad as well as
faculty led courses, which run about one or two
weeks during the breaks.
So study abroad is really popular
because Bentley makes it easy.
They work really closely with Academic Services
to make sure going abroad isn't something
you have to decide between taking extra classes
or anything like that.
And that you're on track to graduate on time.
So it is a great opportunity if you're interested.
I did study abroad last semester in Rome and Bentley
was really accommodating to make sure that academics lined up
all my transitions are easy.
And it was the best time I've had.
So one thing we're really excited to tell you
about here at Bentley is our Career Services Department
career. services
here are extraordinary.
They're always nationally ranked top of the country.
And there's a good reason why we have
a series of counselors each one focused on a set of majors.
So accounting has their own marketing, finance management
and they know what you need to do to help
you break into your career.
They help you write a resume a cover letter.
They help you make a LinkedIn all that awesome stuff.
We actually have a course called Career Development 101
where they teach you all that stuff in six weeks
during your freshman year
Additionally, we have our Bentley Link Program,
which is like LinkedIn.
But only for Bentley students where employers post jobs just
looking for our students and our students
can go and apply to those.
We also have two career fairs per year
where employers and recruiters come to meet with our students
make those connections and possibly secure that internship
or job offer.
Speaking of internships.
92 percent of our students will intern once while they're here
and 72% will do it twice.
Both of those are the highest rates
in the country 99% of our students
are employed or in grad school within six months of graduating
from Bentley with a starting salary of $60,000.
So our career services department here at Bentley they
do a great job making sure we get that return on investment
from your Bentley degree.
So this is the ACELAB.
This is an accounting center here on campus.
It is a tutoring center.
So every student at Bentley does have
to take two semesters of accounting.
So this is a great resource to have.
This is a student run tutoring center.
So it's awesome.
It's open super late.
So if you have any last minute questions, you can come in.
If you have any questions on your homework
on your quizzes besides the Accounting Lab
we also do have finance writing.
So there's plenty of options.
So no matter what the subject you are able to get
help from students here on campus.
So this is our library.
We have some great spaces for our students to use downstairs.
We have our I.T. help desk.
So if you spill coffee on your computer, downloads
that you shouldn't have that sort of thing.
It's totally student run and they
are able to go help you with any tech
issues you face here on campus.
They also have these moving bookshelves
where you hit a button and the whole shelf
moves automatically.
First time you see it.
It's the coolest thing in the world.
Second time.
You see it it's bookshelf on wheels
but the first time, you see it.
It's awesome.
Can't recommend it enough here and on the upper level
of our library.
We have a lot of great study spaces for our students to use.
We have computers here.
We have these nice comfortable chairs here as well.
We have our RSM art gallery it's an art
gallery focused on showing local New England artists
putting in their works Bentley students
can also submit works to be showcased in here.
And here is one of our study rooms
the study rooms are all throughout the library
conference room style set up a TV at the end,
you can plug in your laptop into great space
to go and collaborate work with your fellow students.
You can book them online for up to two hours at a time up
to two weeks in advance, and there's a screen
in our library for you. to
go and see which study rooms are open when you come in.
Otherwise with these nice comfortable desks.
We have these pods.
And right here are comfortable, more comfortable
part of the library.
Sit down with your book or a laptop.
Get some work done a little more relaxed
to hang out between classes.
The library is open from 7:00 AM until 2:00 AM
during the academic year and 24/7 during finals week.
So if you need that study fix you need to get some work done.
This space is open and it's a great space
for students to utilize.
So right now here we're in Jennison which
is our newest renovated academic building in Jennison.
And we do have Academic Services.
So Academic Services is a really great resource.
If you're looking for tutoring, we also
have our Disability Services Office an academic service. So
besides that if you're unsure about what classes you should be taking.
It's great to stop in just check with an advisor.
Every student here does get an academic advisor
as well as you can plan out all four years of classes
if you're really nervous about graduating on time.
And it's really great because there are walk in hours.
So you don't always have to book an appointment. It's
never too crowded.
Usually you can walk in between classes
be seen relatively easily.
We also do have academic services
for our graduate students, which might not
apply to a lot of you.
But it is convenient because you don't really
have to worry about getting prioritized and being
put against graduate students.
There's never really a long line to wait on.
And also in Jennison as well as all
of our other academic buildings we
do have printers here on campus.
So we do have wireless printing and how
that works is that every year you do get $40 of printing funds
and a piece of paper is about $0.05 to print out.
So you don't really have to ever worry
about running out of printing funds
unless you decide to start writing a novel maybe.
But how it works is you press print and any printer
on campus, you can print on it stays
on the server for about two or three days,
and most of the time, you're printing because of your own discretion
as opposed to professors we've really taken
a wireless approach.
So most of the time, if you want to take
notes and print out study guides things like that.
Besides that we also do have lounges
in all of our buildings.
So this is a great area to study.
If you have maybe two classes in this building with an hour
or so in between, you can hang out.
Otherwise, a lot of students you like
to come here early before they maybe
have a test in this building just to look over
their notes quickly.
So right now we're on the science floor of Jennison
so when we renovated Jennison we put
in a ton of state-of-the-art science labs
just because students here at Bentley.
Do have to take a lab science
and Bentley wanted to make it enjoyable for students.
Make it relatable fuse together business and science.
So it's not just a class.
Students take because it's a requirement.
But it's something they can actually really learn from
and apply.
Upon graduation from Bentley.
So we have a ton of different options for sciences.
We have classes like astronomy, geology, oceanography
as well as classes in microbiomes.
Last year, I took sustainability at Bentley.
Before coming here, I didn't think I liked science.
I didn't think I would actually really enjoy it
here. But it was one of my favorite classes
I've ever taken at Bentley.
And it was because it was really interactive.
We got to dissect fish
test the micro plastics in the fish,
as well as also we got to chase around squirrels in Boston
have a fun day at that.
Our final was a presentation with the co-founder
of Wayfair, Steve Conan which was an incredible opportunity.
I don't think I ever thought I would get out of life.
Let alone at such a young age.
So science is here really to prepare you.
And there's tons of research opportunities.
So if you're interested in doing research
through the university.
It's really possible, especially in your undergraduate career.
So I definitely recommend taking a science here
and taking something you're really interested in.
So this is our tech triangle here in the Smith Center tech
triangle because we have three pieces
of awesome technology here.
1, 2, 3 a little bit of geometry for you over here
is our CIS Sandbox Computer Information
Systems a very popular minor here at Bentley
also becoming a popular major because we live in the future
and everything happens on computers now
all Bentley students take a course called Information
Technology in their first year that
covers way more than just what's a computer.
They get that done day one, they teach you every function.
You'll ever need to know in Excel, HTML.
How to set up a router.
Really useful stuff if you need help.
They have tutors.
Otherwise, they're always having fun
showing off the latest gadgets letting
our students get some experience hands on experience with that.
Over here is our User Experience Center.
It's like the Center for Marketing Technology.
But it is for our graduate students
where our undergraduate students will participate
in studies resource studies to help companies optimize
their websites and their apps.
Really awesome stuff to be a part of.
And over here is the crown jewel of our tech triangle
is our trading room one of the largest academic trading
floors in North America.
Bentley encourages every single one of our students
if they're interested to go and get some experience here.
Bentley has pretty much every financial services software,
you can imagine available for our students
to use and learn how to use right here,
including Bloomberg, Morningstar Data Stream you name it,
you'll be able to learn how to use it here.
Additionally, we have tutors if you don't know a finance
concept or if you don't know how to use technology they can help
you out.
Classes are held here from time to time
when there is a class going on.
There's an auxiliary trading room in the back, where you can go and use
Additionally this space is utilized
by a Bentley Investment Group.
One of the largest organizations on campus.
They break down into individual sectors of the market research
stocks pitch in with the whole group and actually invest.
They started with $150,000 in 2006 this year
or last year they broke over a million.
Huge deal when they did.
If there is a single space that sold me on Bentley
it would have to be this. This
is a really awesome space.
The real time, the real time stock tickers in the wall
just kind of draw you and you see the awesome resources
we have great space here on campus.
So this is pretty much the largest classroom,
you're going to find here at Bentley.
We cap All of our classes at 35 students each.
That's not an average or a pretty number.
That is the absolute maximum you're
going to have here partially because as you
can see adding chairs to this room
might make things a little tight.
And more importantly, because there
is a ton of value in small class sizes.
We have one professor for every 11 students.
And in this environment, you get to know them.
But more importantly, they get to know you too
and they can be a great contact for whatever you need
help with.
They love working with our students.
So it's really great
that they get to know you
And you get to know them in this environment and
you get to know your fellow students as well.
Classes themselves meet for two hours and 40 minutes a week
either once a week two hours and 40 minutes
or twice a week hour and 20 minutes
each time they start as early as 8:00 in the morning.
They end as late as 9:30 at night.
We have a tool called the Schedule Planner where
you input the classes that you want to take
and put in your breaks.
If you have a job or practice or if you just
want to take a class at a certain time
it'll automatically plan your schedule
for you, which is really awesome.
A great tool for students to use.
There are seven courses freshmen are required
to take two semesters of general accounting and finance
and a semester of law as part of our general business
curriculum as well as two semesters of calculus.
Additionally, we also have a semester
of expository writing, which is a writing course
to help everyone get on the same writing
footprint and our information technology course
to get everyone on the same footprint
with technology usage.
You typically take five classes per semester.
So 10 classes per year.
That extra three you can fill with electives with whatever
you're interested in.
I took a class called Economics of the European Union
last semester.
Very interesting class, especially
during the Brexit really fascinating information really
just find a class, you're interested in,
you'll have a good time.
We also have our Honors Program.
Great academic thing to mention.
Top 10% of each admitted student class is automatically invited.
They have some perks.
They have a boat cruise down the Charles River at the end of the semester
or the year
a barbecue to start and their own floor in our residence halls
and classes are capped at 18 students each instead of 35.
If you thought 35 was small.
Imagine 18 is your maximum class size Honors Program
they have that if you're welcomed into the Honors program
when you first apply it's automatic acceptance when
you first apply.
But if you weren't admitted you can apply again after
your freshman year. they'll
consider your Bentley record when deciding whether
or not to accept you to that.
There's one more thing with this room.
There's some awesome technology in here.
Over here at this little podium for our professors,
they can control the entire room.
They want to turn the lights off.
They want to turn. They
want to bring the shades down.
Turn on the projector.
Any of that stuff our professors love
to utilize the technology in their lectures.
And again, they control it from one little tablet right here.
Otherwise, this is a pretty standard classroom here
at Bentley. And this
is what our academic experience is like.
So we are here on the lower athletic part of our campus.
Bentley has 21 varsity athletic programs 20 of them
are Division II, most of them, Our men's ice hockey
team is Division I.
That means we get to play some great marquee
programs in our new arena.
Also on the lower part of our campus.
It is a great place to catch a game.
Not a bad seat in the building really awesome
place to watch hockey and some other events.
We'll talk about later.
In addition to our varsity hockey program.
We also have our 20 varsity Division II programs
that include things like men's and women's
basketball, which are the very best in the division the
men. The women's team actually won the national championship
in 2014.
For that they have a massive banner
hanging over their court.
They absolutely are the men's and women's basketball
are always nationally ranked top of the country.
Very, very competitive programs.
In addition to our basketball team.
We also have volleyball football both
who won their conference this year.
Swimming and dive as well.
Conference champions have a pretty great year for sports
here at Bentley all these great programs
to go watch cheer on your fellow falcons.
Below that we have our club sports
club sports play other schools but it's not
NCAA sanctioned such things like women's ice hockey
rugby and ultimate Frisbee.
You get to play other schools But you're not necessarily
in an NCAA League and then below
that, we have our intramural sports intramurals
are competitive against other Bentley students.
So it's stuff like flag football in the fall soccer
basketball and softball in the spring.
People get into it people go to cheer on their friends
at intramural softball games.
We have a lot of fun with that.
All of those are held on our lower athletic space down here,
we have our turf lacrosse field and turf football fields.
Those are used by our lacrosse and football teams
when they're not using it.
Our students are welcome to go and utilize
that space have fun throw the football around
on the actual Bentley football fields.
How great is that.
And over here we're up into it.
Is the Dana Center.
It is our main hub of athletic activity.
It is home to our gyms our swimming pools and some other
options as well.
So our Dana Athletic Center.
So over here, we do have our gym.
It is open from 7:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night.
So no matter what time you like to work out if it's
before class or in between.
After the gym is always open on the first floor.
We have our weights and lifting on the second floor
is more cardio.
So no matter what kind of workout you like to do.
We do have plenty of machines and we did just renovate
the gym this past summer.
So all of them are new and our athletic teams do
have their own separate training facilities for practices.
So you're never going to be interrupting a sports practice.
So that is nice and besides that we
do have some discretionary options here in the Dana
Center.
So we have Carrito, which is basically
Chipotle but also it's smoothies as well as
The Nest which is all day breakfast and pretty much
the closest thing to a homemade meal you'll get
here at Benltey.
You check off what you want.
They make it right in front of you. So it's nice
and warm it feels just like mom's cooking.
It's great.
right after the gym to reward yourself with a treat.
So we're now at the Green Space, which is a pretty big social scene
here at Bentley any day.
It's even remotely nice out.
You'll find students are hanging out easily
bringing a blanket to lay on getting some work done playing
a game of spikeball with friends
and someone always has a speaker.
So it's really nice, especially around finals week
when people get a little more stressed just
to be able to relax, get some work
done out on the green space.
My favorite day here was freshman year.
I remember, there was a day in January.
It felt like it was July.
It was so nice out and the entire green space was filled.
There was not a single patch of grass that you could see.
Everybody was wearing shorts and flip-flops
and we even had Bentley police officers playing spikeball
with the students.
And it was amazing.
And then further down.
We do have our bookstore.
So this is where you'll find pretty much anything
Bentley you can imagine.
And more as well as where students
will pick up their text books and the reason
why the building is
So large is because it's an upper classmen apartment
building.
Besides the bookstore we also have our Falcon Mart,
which is pretty much like a little CVS
so any last minute school supplies
you might need any snacks whatever you could possibly
imagine is in there as well as we do have our mail office.
So as a Bentley student you will receive a mailbox
through the school.
So if you ever receive a letter a package
you would go there to pick it up.
So this is our main dining hall The 921
because apparently Bentley began at 921 Boylston
street in Boston.
It's a buffet style eatery.
You guys know how buffets work right.
You go.
You grab what you want.
You want to eat something else. Feel
free to go and grab it.
Freshmen who live on campus are required
to have a meal plan that can either be the unlimited meal plan
or the value 15 unlimited gets you into The 921
as many times as you want.
If you want to go into just grab a bagel
and get on out you are more than welcome to do that on
the unlimited meal plan no restriction at all.
You also get 350 discretionary dollars
to use throughout campus.
If you don't find yourself coming to The
921 all that often you can go to the value 15
plan 15 swipes a week into The 921
and 375 discretionary dollars
to use throughout campus.
One of our main discretionary locations
is Harry's Pub we're going to go by that.
in just one second it is open from 5:00 PM
until 1:00 AM they do standard food burgers, sandwiches, pizza
chicken, standard bar food.
They also have a lot of great events in Harry's.
They have weekly trivia nights.
Our sororities will put on Mac and Cheese Night with all the Mac
and Cheese you could possibly eat for $5.
Pretty good deal if I do say so myself
during the football season.
Every single game from 1 o'clock until the end
of Sunday football is on in Harry's pub also here
our student center.
We have our Dunkin' Donuts because what would I
do without my iced coffee when it's five degrees outside got
to have a Dunkin'.
It also has a side effect in making this whole building smell
like donuts.
Nothing wrong with that.
If I do say so myself running down towards our living room.
It is a great hub of student activity.
Great place to go and hang out.
We have pool tables, ping pong tables and all that is
provided to our students.
So if you're trying to pack your ping pong paddle.
Don't worry about it. It
is available for our students to check out.
Otherwise, it's a nice lounge for students to hang out,
relax, work on some stuff with their friends.
Great stuff all around upstairs and in the student living room
as well.
We have some conference rooms for student organizations
to meet.
We have over 100 student organizations
focusing on literally everything you could possibly
imagine for music.
We have a radio station.
If you're into writing.
We have a newspaper if you're into cars you have a car club.
If there's something that you're interested in,
that doesn't have a club yet you can go and start
your own club. How
cool is that right.
Entrepreneurship love to see that around here.
Additionally this space.
Our living room is home to our monthly bingo nights bingo
at Bentley is a really huge deal
what do seniors in college and seniors in life have in common.
They all love bingo bingo at Bentley
all leads to a super bingo event in the spring
where people come with some serious stuff.
People have won iPhones, play stations every year
Bentley seniors go to the Bahamas
the week before graduation, they get their trip paid
for at Super Bingo.
So whatever you have to do.
Be good at bingo start practicing now because Bentley
is the big leagues.
Otherwise, this is our living room.
The real heart of activity on campus.
This is our Student Equity and Inclusion Center,
which includes our Multicultural Center, as well
as our Center for International Students and Scholars.
So 16% of our students here at Bentley are international.
So providing resources for them, such as helping
adapt to a new country with Visa process
just being so far away from home,
making them feel like Bentley is their new home
as well as for the Multicultural Center.
It's about being really proud about your roots and
where you come from.
We have a ton of different clubs for different cultures.
The biggest event they put on every year
would be the Diwali show and they
do a lot of different themes this past year,
the theme of SpongeBob in the past,
they've done themes such as Scooby Doo.
So it's always a really big event
that people love to show up to.
And now we're heading over to our sacred space.
So our Bentley itself isn't a religious school we do
have six different religious sermons practiced here.
So if you are religious and want to keep up with your practices.
This is the place to do it.
My roommate freshman year was Jewish
and she attended a Passover dinner at the sacred space
really meant a lot to her.
And we really moved her.
So she kept attending at the sacred space.
So if you're definitely interested in keeping up
with your practices.
I would recommend doing that here.
So this is Miller Hall one of our three freshmen residence
halls here on campus.
It is a dormitory style residence hall.
It features bathrooms on every floor.
Common living areas for students to hang out
in study lounges and kitchens.
Every floor of every residence hall
has a residence assistant who is a current student who
helps you handle day to day issues with your housing
as well as a residence director for the entire building who has
a master's level professional who
handles big picture stuff for the building.
After freshman year students are eligible to move up
to the suite style residence halls
and the suites are for sophomores and juniors.
These suites have common living areas bedrooms
and wanted to people bathrooms and a kitchenette.
After that juniors and seniors move to the apartments common
living area bedrooms of one to two people and a full kitchen
all included but this right here is
one of our standard dormitory style residence hall rooms
two beds, two desks two dressers pretty standard setup
right here.
Every single Bentley residence hall unit
has air conditioning in the units, as well as heating.
So this does both.
So you can control it in the units.
It can be 60 degrees here 90 degrees across the hall.
Don't know why they wanted it 90, but 60 here 90 there
no problem at all.
You control it for your unit otherwise, this is your space.
Make yourself at home.
Bring a mini fridge microwave that sort of thing.
Make yourself comfortable and help you get adjusted to live
at Bentley.
This is the common room for Miller
says this is a great place to hang out study.
There's a lot of big events here like pizza parties
Super Bowl watching parties.
That is a great place to get out of your dorm and hang out.
Then going in here we have our kitchen.
So if you do enjoy cooking and want to keep up with that,
you can cook and there is a fridge
where you can keep your food and for housing there
is a contract you fill out.
So that'll be you say your top preferences
for living whether it's a double or triple quad or single
and you can request a roommate.
Otherwise, you can go random and fill out a compatibility survey
and Bentley will match you with someone
and then here's our laundry room.
So we have laundry in every building.
So you don't have to leave your dorm
to do laundry as well as we do have an app that you pay
through your phone for the laundry
so you don't have to bring a bag of quarters
and it is very convenient.
Thanks, guys, for joining us on this virtual tour of campus
We hope you enjoyed it before we leave you guys.
We'll tell you about why we chose Bentley.
Yeah So for me, when I was making my decision
Bentley was a school that really looked great on paper,
but when I was actually able to visit the campus.
I couldn't imagine myself anywhere else.
And for me, I was drawn in by the top notch academics
great facilities and award winning career services.
But at the end of the day, once I got on campus.
the sense of the community here.
I knew this was the place that I could call home.
So thank you for following us around today.
We hope to see you on campus soon.