Bentley University is located in Waltham, 0/4 km west of Boston. Boston (English: Boston) is the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the largest city in New England and the 2nd1largest city in the United States by population in 2008. Located on the Atlantic coast in the northeast of the United States, this city was founded in 1630, and it is one of the oldest and most culturally valuable cities in the United States. Boston was the site of some important events during the American Revolutionary War. It used to be an important shipping port and manufacturing center. Today, this city is the center of higher education and medical care. Its economic foundation is scientific research, finance and technology, especially bioengineering, and it is regarded as a global city or a cosmopolitan city.

Universities in Boston are the main factors that affect the economy of the city and the whole region. They are not only major employers, but also attract high-tech industries to the city and its vicinity, including computer hardware and software companies and bioengineering companies (such as Millennium Medicine). Boston receives more money from the National Institutes of Health every year than any other American city. Other important industries are finance (especially mutual funds) and insurance. Boston-based Fidelity helped popularize mutual funds in the1980s, making Boston one of the top financial cities in the United States. The city also has regional headquarters of large banks, such as Bank of America and Sovereign, a venture capital center. Boston is also a printing and publishing center. Horton Mifflin Publishing House, a textbook publisher, is headquartered in this city. The city has four major convention centers: Haines Convention Center in Deep Bay, Bessede Exhibition Center in Dorchester, Boston World Trade Center and Boston Convention Center in South Boston Waterfront. Because it is the state capital and the regional center of the federal government, law and government are another major component of the city's economy.

The big companies headquartered in this city include Gillette (owned by Procter & Gamble) and Teradyne, which is one of the top manufacturers of semiconductors and other electronic test equipment in the world. The headquarters of New Balance will be located in Boston. The headquarters of other big companies are all outside the city, mainly along expressway, Massachusetts 128. Boston Harbor is one of the major seaports on the east coast of the United States and one of the oldest and still active commercial and fishing ports in the Western Hemisphere.

Boston is called "Athens of America" because there are more than 65,438+000 universities in the Boston metropolitan area, and more than 250,000 college students are educated here.