US NEWS ranking doesn’t account for all the data points so it doesn’t give the right rankings or their rankings are not very reliable. However, Money, Economic times and other publications incorporate various data points to come-up with the ranking.
http://new.time.com/money/best-colleges/rankings/best-colleges-for-business-majors/
But since Bentley does well in this ranking this one is right and reliable? :))
Please do your home work…check other rankings from Economics , college factuals and many other.
For your information, US news has ranked MIT as a top undergraduate program in Supply Chain while MIT doesn’t have any Supply chain major for undergraduate. Isn’t it interesting??
check it out here…
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-supply-chain-management-logistics
Supply chain management is an area of operations management and business analytics at MIT:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/uploadedFilesV9/Undergraduate/Pages/Majors_and_Minors/15-1%20Concentrations_web.pdf
Analytics is required for all business functions Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Supply Chain and others. Various colleges have introduced Analytic as a new major because it is a hot area. That doesn’t mean the Analytics major is equivalent to Supply Chain 
Thanks for posting this. My son is applying to numerous schools on this list as a biz major. Interesting to see some schools make the list and some left off the list.
Uh-oh. Villanova is on the list. I’m surprised Money hasn’t issued a retraction already and vowed never to publish rankings again. :))
Interesting, Bentley is not included in that ranking.
Additional data points:
College Factual’s “Top Colleges by Major/Field of Study” rankings place Bentley high in several additional fields:
Top majors
#1 Accounting
#1 Business/Managerial Economics
#2 Marketing
#3 Finance/ Financial Management
#4 Business Administration and Management
#6 Liberal Arts/Sciences and Humanities
#9 Computer Information Systems
Best of luck to Bentley Criticizers —
I think that you are trying to overcompensate.
That ranking looks very off to me.
This message is for @RightCoaster
Additional suggestion- please evaluate post graduation outcomes. Colleges use different terminology and there is no consistency for example: graduation outcomes, employment report, placement report, destination report etc.
When you evaluate the outcome, please do not just go by the employment rate published by the college. Please check survey response rate/knowledge rate. Now, you may ask why?
For example: there may be 1000 students graduated from a program and only 80% responded to the post graduation survey…which equates to effective employment rate 0.8 x 0.9 = 72%. It is possible that some students may not responded to the survey but it is human nature to share good news with others.
A student who got a job or got into Master program or other business; will openly say that. In general, someone who didn’t get a job; most likely won’t respond to the survey. However, there is no scientific way to prove it but you can use your own judgement to believe employment rate published by the college or factor in response rate to compute effective Employment rate.
All the best to you and your son. Hope he gets into his dream college !!
Study done by Georgetown University in 2015 provides good insight
https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/College-Scorecard-Web.pdf
US department of Education provides college scorecard based on the historical data and it is worth looking
Interesting List. My son is applying to Bentley so I am familiar with many of the ranking posted here.
I did find the ranking of WPI very interesting. It would not be considered a good place to study business by local MA people familiar with the curriculum. It is mainly a school for STEM. The vast majority of conversations and networking on WPI campus would not be business related like you would find at a dedicated business school like Bentley or Babson. On those campus’ it is business and more business.
I also noticed that UCONN made the list but no UMASS. Interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
@Massdad68 you are right. WPI is specialized in the Engineering field. WPI offers general BS in management and student can take few courses in their concentrations like Finance, MIS, Accounting, Mgmt etc. Similarly, Stevens Inst of Technology has Quant finance, Business & Technology majors and both are great program. Other majors received AACSB accreditation recently.
Schools like WPI, RPI,Clarkson are really pushing their biz schools lately. Those schools help kids who are interested in business and technology get exposure to both and learn about innovation/start-up and the use of technology within businesses. They are also a bit more " nerdy" than Bentley, Babson, Northeastern etc and have a less pre-professional vibe, but have a distinct hands on feel. There are a lot of kids that are interested in both technology and business and these schools are smart to cater to them, and develop fields of study that interest them. My son doesn’t really have an interest in finance or accounting, but is more interested in emerging tech and how to bring those new technologies to life.
He liked Bentley and Babson, but I think he might like the vibe of WPI/Clarkson/RPI better.
Those schools have very good placement rates ( similar to Bentley/Babson) too, just maybe into different types of businesses. Lots of intern opportunites as well.
@RightCoaster I agree with everything you said. I still find it strange that what you spoke of would place them on the “top 50 business schools” list. Sure they offer business programs but to make the list and beat out other dedicated business schools (even those within large state schools) just makes me scratch my head.
My son sounds like yours. We sent our CSS profile to both RPI and WPI with the intention of him taking a STEM track. He has since shied away from those two school and did not end up applying. I still think he would like to do something STEM related but at this point is going to try the business track. So hard for HS kids to fully know what they want to do for a career.
just an FYI…if you talk to freshman or sophomore students from various colleges, you will find a significant % of students switch majors after Freshman or Sophomore year. In the recent years, there is large influx of students in the Business school from Engineering and other majors. Tech/STEM students pursue Management Information system, Business analytics or selects Major in Business and minor in Information technology.
These Mass. colleges produce the highest-earning students
Massachusetts colleges produce median student earnings – 10 years after enrollment — between $24,400 and $113,400, according to data in the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard.
The earnings data – the most recent available – comes from 10 years after the students enrolled. For this analysis, the Boston Business Journal looked at Massachusetts schools that predominately offer a four-year bachelor’s degree, a view that includes 77 colleges.
UC Berkeley has no undergraduate business program, is this for grad schools?