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Experiential Learning

Babson’s experiential learning programs offer business and financial consulting services to client companies while providing a real world business environment for graduate students to practice their classroom skills. Graduate-level experiential learning programs include the Babson Consulting Alliance Program (BCAP), a required component of the Two-Year MBA Program, the Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) an elective option for students in all MBA programs, and the Global Management Program (GMP), an international work experience with an academic component.

Babson students learn and demonstrate their professional expertise as the consult on client-related projects that extend and reinforce the MBA curriculum. Benefits of these experiential learning opportunities:

  • Creating deliverables that add value to sponsor companies
  • Bringing entrepreneurial thought to workplace and industry problems
  • Building professional networks with world-class students and sponsor companies
  • Learning how to make a difference through a new business endeavor

Babson’s leadership role in entrepreneurship and attention to experiential learning is woven into the fabric of the graduate curriculum. Students increase their entrepreneurial capacity as they focus on a wide range of projects. Whether it is a startup venture, a product launch, an innovative service, or a unique business solution Babson students offer fresh perspectives, creativity, and innovation.

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"The Babson BCAP team presentation and report for our company were superlative. I consider the Team’s presentation to be one of the very best I have seen in 30 years in business. The team did an exceptionally thorough analysis, with little publicly available background. Touched on all points of a very complicated project, one that would have challenged experienced consultants. Focused on the measurable financial results that matter to our company."

-- Putney Incorporated
2008-2009