| Bentley started as a school for accounting and finance. They not only have a strong finance program but also have graduate programs in finance and personal financial planning,which is NOT available through Babson. Bentley also has programs in information technology even acturarial science,which isn't available at Babson. Babson has concentration in quantitative finance that I don't think Bentley has as an undergraduate concentration. Bentley also has more majors and more choices since it is a bigger school. For example they have a number of programs for duel undergrad and MS programs or MS/MBA that Babson doesn't seem to have.
Babson is VERY entrepreneural based. Everything that they do is geared for this area. This is not true for Bentley,which may be business oriented but not necessarily entrepreneural oriented.
As for accounting jobs, I spoke with some recruiters from the Big 4 who said that they rate both schools about the same.
Bentley also has a fabulous trading room and a finance concentration that involves securities analysis.
Bottom Line: Both are very good. They do, however, have very different emphasis and a different culture. You really need to check out each school. Don't go by rankings or even what is said here, which is usually incorrect. |