by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Bentley University was awarded 34 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is accounting.
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Bentley landed the #24 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Bentley held the #32 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Bentley is also ranked #5 out of 63 schools in Massachusetts.
If you're applying to Bentley University you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 58%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 27% of students accepted to Bentley submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 618 and 690. Math scores were between 640 and 730.
At Bentley, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 12 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Bentley University is 60%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 91% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Bentley University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Bentley for first-time, full-time students is 84%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,061 undergraduates at Bentley with 4,008 being full-time and 53 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $21,131 | $25,117 | $28,129 | $36,002 | $48,742 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Bentley, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Bentley, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $11,610 a year. That adds up to $46,440 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Bentley are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 175 Forest St, Waltham, MA 02452-4705 |
| Phone: | 781-891-2000 |
| Website: | www.bentley.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 369 | $67,903 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 311 | $72,309 |
| Accounting | 273 | $72,823 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 199 | $81,103 |
| Other Business, Management & Marketing | 152 | $70,365 |
| Marketing | 122 | $60,447 |
| Computer Information Systems | 89 | $72,227 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 80 | $72,333 |
| Human Computer Interaction | 43 | NA |
| Applied Mathematics | 38 | NA |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 1,217 students took at least one online class at Bentley University. This is a decrease from the 1,539 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,217 | 151 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,539 | 152 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,177 | 78 |
| 2018-2019 | 53 | 53 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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