Advance as a
Business Leader
Overview
Ready to learn how to think and act like an entrepreneur? Babson’s full-time MBA program immerses you in the hands-on experiences and business fundamentals you need to foster your entrepreneurial mindset and grow as a problem solver. Customize your curriculum through electives, concentrations, and hands-on consulting projects, then choose a 12-month accelerated or 21-month MBA experience in Wellesley, just outside Boston.
for 32 Consecutive Years
U.S. News & World Report
(Babson College)
The Wall Street Journal, 2026
The Wall Street Journal, 2026
Babson’s full-time MBA program builds a strong foundation in core business functions while giving you opportunities to tailor your experience through electives and concentrations. Through an immersive, hands-on learning environment, you will develop the skills to move to a new industry, grow your business, or take on larger leadership opportunities.
Skills include:
Put the lessons from your courses into action through the Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action Experience (BETA-X), a project during which you’ll work in teams to propose and refine an entrepreneurial venture.
Through the Babson Consulting Experience (BCE), work in a team over 14 weeks to solve a real challenge for a partner organization, practicing the entrepreneurial leadership skills that sets the Babson MBA apart.
Babson offers seven total concentrations. Two STEM-designated concentrations—Quantitative Finance or Business Analytics and Machine Learning—allow international students to apply for 36 months of OPT, vs. 12 months of OPT for students in non-STEM programs.
Learn alongside classmates with an average of 6–8 years of work experience, representing dozens of countries from around the world.
Apply without standardized test scores to the No. 1 school in entrepreneurship (U.S. News & World Report).
The right choice depends on your background and goals, especially if you are comparing one-year MBA schools with more traditional two-year options. Babson offers its 45-credit, full-time MBA degree in two formats:
| One-Year MBA | Two-Year MBA | |
|---|---|---|
| Start Date | May | August |
| Length | 12 Months | 21 Months |
| Curriculum | 45 Credits (15 core + 30 elective) | 45 Credits (15 core + 30 elective) |
| Concentrations | Optional, may choose up to 2 of 7 available options | Optional, may choose up to 2 of 7 available options |
| Summer | Accelerated schedule; no internship term | Optional internship, travel, or accelerator between years |
| Investment | $92,250 total | $116,760 total ($73,710 Year 1 + $43,050 Year 2) |
The full-time MBA core is experiential, interdisciplinary, and built to ground you in key functional areas:
Full-time MBA students choose from a wide range of electives to build their ideal course of study. Electives specialize and build skills in a variety of areas, including:
Focus your full-time MBA degree with up to two concentrations from:
Babson's Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® methodology prepares you to become an entrepreneurial leader, ready to address the greatest challenges of business and society, including innovation, growth, integrated sustainability, and globalization. This experience is guided by four learning goals:
Collaborate with and learn from others to accomplish a common goal or create an original work.
Lead people to work toward shared goals with consideration of the ethical implications of their actions.
Develop and express ideas strategically, through written, oral, and visual formats, to a specific audience for a desired purpose.
Analyze and assess ideas and data to make decisions and recommendations appropriate to situations and stakeholders.
Outcomes
What can you do with an MBA degree? Babson full-time MBA graduates pursue careers across technology, financial services, manufacturing, consulting, and CPG/retail. In 2025, 80% of job-seeking graduates accepted a job offer within six months of graduation, joining organizations such as Apple, Accenture, Disney, Google, Hasbro, PwC, and Snowflake, while 16% of graduates worked on their own venture upon graduation.
| Technology | 32% |
|---|---|
| Financial Services | 21% |
| Consulting | 9% |
| Consumer Packaging | 9% |
| Manufacturing | 7% |
| Healthcare | 4% |
Median Base Salary – U.S. Outcomes
Average Signing Bonus
Accepted Job Offer in 6 Months
Babson’s graduates are known for their ability to navigate uncertainty, drive innovation, and lead within organizations both large and small. We are thrilled to share the job landings for the MBA and Specialized Master’s Class of 2025.
View DashboardClass Size
International Students
Average Years of Work Experience
Alumni Stories
Read about Joy Meng MBA’28, winner of a B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge. She credits her win to the strong support and sense of community at Babson. Meng pitched Tiny Star, a business that promotes literacy education by encouraging children ages 6 to 10 to write their own books at after school programs. The books are then published and available for purchase on Amazon and other locations.
Faculty Spotlight
“Business as usual” has no business here. At many top institutions, lectures don't move past the lectern. At Babson, the leading entrepreneurship college, professors are practitioners: business owners, leaders in their fields, and top-tier advisors who bring real experience to every case study and consulting project.
Marketing Division
Entrepreneurship Division
Entrepreneurship Division
Finance Division
Marketing Division
Babson has a very collaborative environment and provides you with the rare opportunity to step out of your comfort zone, to experiment, and to experience a diverse range of thoughts and ideas. These are all imperative for growth, not just in a work environment, but can also help bolster your personal growth.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Babson's Wellesley, MA, campus sits just 10 miles from Boston, giving full-time MBA students the best of both worlds. Among full-time MBA programs in Boston and the surrounding area, Babson combines a residential campus experience with easy access to the region’s employers, startups, and professional network.
See the Student ExperienceTuition and Financial Aid
There are many ways to fund your degree. Through Babson’s Full-Time Merit Awards, you’re automatically considered for partial or full scholarships based on leadership, inclusive excellence, and academic achievement. Babson alumni also enjoy a 20% tuition discount, making it even more affordable to advance your career. Explore Babson’s merit-based awards, alumni discounts, and other financial aid options to support your graduate education.
Full-Time Merit AwardsReady to pursue Babson’s Full-Time MBA Program?
FAQS
A full-time MBA is an immersive, on-campus graduate business degree designed to prepare students for leadership roles across core business functions, rather than training in only one specialty. At Babson, the full-time MBA combines a general management curriculum in finance, marketing, operations, strategy, and analytics with Babson’s proven Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® (ET&A™) methodology and hands on consulting and entrepreneurship experiences.
Full-time MBA students can choose up to two concentrations out of seven options: Business Analytics, Business Analytics and Machine Learning (STEM), Entrepreneurship, Finance, Quantitative Finance (STEM), Global Management, and Marketing.
No. There is no GMAT or GRE requirement for Babson’s full-time MBA programs for 2027 entry, though you may submit scores if you'd like them considered as part of your application.
Two of Babson’s seven MBA concentrations—Quantitative Finance and Business Analytics and Machine Learning—are STEM-designated. Choosing one of these concentrations allows eligible international students on an F-1 visa to apply for up to 36 months of Optional Practical Training (OPT), compared with 12 months for non-STEM concentrations.
The Babson Consulting Experience (BCE) is a required, 14-week experiential learning project in which teams of full-time MBA students work directly with a partner organization to analyze a real business challenge and develop actionable recommendations. This is one of several Signature Learning Experiences built into Babson's full-time MBA degree.
Yes. Babson’s full-time MBA programs are visa-eligible, and international students make up a significant share of the full-time cohort.
A full-time MBA can help you advance your career in your current field, pivot to a new industry or function, or build the skills to launch your own venture. Babson's full-time MBA programs combine a general management core with hands-on consulting experience through the Babson Consulting Alliance Program, so graduates enter the job market with both credentials and demonstrated results.
MBA salaries vary by industry, role, location, and prior experience, but Babson’s recent full-time MBA outcomes provide a useful benchmark. For the 2025 class, the median base salary for U.S. outcomes was $110,000, with an average signing bonus of $22,389. In addition, 80% of graduates accepted a job offer within six months.
An MBA can give aspiring business founders the frameworks, network, and confidence to move from idea to execution. For example, Babson's full-time MBA programs teach opportunity recognition, venture financing, and go-to-market strategy through electives like New Venture Creation, then let students apply that training directly. Many students launch real ventures while still enrolled, using resources like the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, the Butler Launch Pad, and Rocket Pitch to test and fund their ideas alongside coursework.
