Why Hire Babson

Babson Students Add to the Bottom Line

• Has learned core business disciplines

• Has acquired strong management skills and applied a holistic approach to solving business challenges

• Reasons analytically, creatively, and ethically as a benefit of experiential learning

• Understands the realities of the current economic and social environment

• Think and act entrepreneurially

Babson’s diversity and breadth of opportunity allow our undergraduate and graduate student populations to see the world with a global perspective and handle any challenges they may be given.

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Babson's Unique Curriculum

Integrated, Cross-disciplinary Programs

With Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® at the core of its curriculum, Babson students learn from integrated cross-disciplinary graduate, undergraduate, and executive education programs. All

these take an action-learning approach. At Babson, students are inspired to think analytically and creatively through personalized experiential learning so they are ready to hit the ground running when they start their careers. Here are just a few reflections on what helps prepare them:

• In their first year, Babson undergraduates take a business or organization from concept to operation and finally to liquidation during the Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) course.

• All Two-Year MBA students work in teams to consult with local businesses about real business problems during Babson’s Consulting Alliance Program (BCAP).

• Both MBA and undergraduate students have an opportunity to participate in a Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE), where, through a semester-long project, students analyze an issue and make recommendations to operating businesses about specific topic areas including finance, marketing, operations, and more.

• All undergraduate students participate in a four-stage career planning process: Explore. Discover. Connect. Achieve. This allows them to choose and prepare for the right career path.

Babson Consistently Places in the Top Tier of Rankings

Internationally recognized publications, such as Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S.News & World Report, among others, have ranked Babson in the top spots for many classifications including, but not limited to Entrepreneurship, full-time MBA programs, part-time MBA programs, teaching quality, and Return on Investment.

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Student Population Overview

Our highly diverse student body, hailing from 45 U.S. states and 57 countries (non-U.S. students comprise more than 20 percent of undergraduates and 40 percent of full-time MBA students), takes the Babson experience all around the world. Our global yet closely connected alumni population stands ready to provide current students with coaching, mentoring, internships, and jobs, no matter where in the world they are studying, traveling, or working.

• Our Undergraduate School provides a top-flight business education blending innovative, integrated, and applied business and liberal arts programs with curricular and cocurricular learning experiences.

• The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business grants highly ranked MBA and MSA degrees. One MBA, four options: One-Year, Two-Year, Evening, Fast Track.

• Our Executive Education program is designed for professionals and companies looking to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business environment.

• A diverse faculty with real-world experience—68 percent of our full-time faculty hold a doctoral degree or its equivalent, and are accomplished entrepreneurs, executives, scholars, authors, researchers, poets, and artists.

• Global research projects are used as key benchmarking indicators by a number of distinguished regional, national, and supranational authorities around the world.

• Babson Global works with corporate, university, government, and foundation partners to advance entrepreneurship education and Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® worldwide.

Learn more about the Undergraduate population (pdf) and the Graduate population (pdf).