Bentley University Top Questions

Activities related to finance, business, and marketing are very active and popular. There are also student activities that are geared towards having fun and developing a sense of university community which are also popular.

Dude...we have our own pub...so Bentley definitely endorses drinking. They say about 10{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of students belong to a frat or sor and I believe it. If you're awake at 2am on a Tuesday, you're probably doing your hw or studying for an exam, unless you're a freshmen, you'd be watching TV.

Guys here are big on sports and video games. I'm not really sure what the girls do in their free time, but many of them do go into the city often. A ton of the student organizations often host events affiliated with some finance/accounting firm, which can get excessive and annoying for those who would rather have a traditional college experience. You'll start to notice that many students have multiple eBoard positions--involvement in student orgs on campus isn't huge which can be a downer for those involved in them, but you will get to know the members of other clubs pretty well since those who do participate typically participate in a few. Athletic events aren't huge, but don't go unnoticed either. Basketball is huge but if its not your thing you're not going to find another sport on campus that people are as enthusiastic about. Guest speakers don't come often, don't get much publicity when they do, and typically have a higher turnout by faculty than students. The school's arts program is virtually nonexistent, and if you feel that you take the arts (whether its visual or performing) seriously you should not let anyone else tell you otherwise. There is a group (APO) which does some OK productions, but they are all the school has. A jazz band and gospel choir are said to exist, but those (at least) in the a capella group have never seen or heard either. There is one piano on the whole campus that can really be practiced on as the other three are inconveniently located or in horrible condition. The lack of an arts department and the students who care about them is one of the biggest disappointments I have about the school. The school generally focuses on academics during the week. People don't have parties during the week and usually hold off until the weekend to really celebrate birthdays. The city is a great resource of entertainment that a lot of kids take advantage of. The shuttle runs hourly or half hourly on the weekends and brings you straight into Harvard Square. From there, the Red Line can get you anywhere you want to go. The campus loves to drink, though, so on the weekends if you're not interested in drinking you'll have a tough time trying to find something to do that doesn't involve doing homework in your room and doesn't involve a ton of money someplace in Boston. If you don't drink but can at least tolerate being at parties with those that do you'll get some fun out of it, but the fact that everyone's drunk when you aren't and have no interest to be can be a bit aggravating.

Lots of emails from the social groups, its a very involved community

Social life is excellent. As serious of a school as Bentley is, we have a lot of fun here. We have a bar on campus that serves $2 Sam Adams drafts (hard to beat that), a free shuttle that runs until around 2:00am which brings students into Boston and back, AND we're allowed to register keg parties in the dorms. Oh, which reminds me, the only students who live in "dorms" are freshmen. Everyone else (sophomores, juniors, seniors) lives in apartments or suites (a suite is an apartment without a kitchen). No one wants to live off-campus here (unless they're retards that party 24/7 and get in trouble all the time who just can't bare to be around RA's). Anyway, back to the registered keg parties: if everyone in the apartment is 21, you can tell the campus police you're throwing a keg party and you won't get in trouble. How amazing? The one, and largest, drawback to Bentley: the girls. I am 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} serious, and not at all exaggerating, when I saw about 80-90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of girls here have serious, long-term boyfriends. The rest of them are ugly as hell. The saving grace is that we have a lot of random girls coming on campus from other schools who aren't ready to get married at the age of 19 and are looking for a good time. Bar in Waltham (and Boston) are the best place to meet girls.