Undergraduate Business School Curriculum

From day one, you’ll be fully immersed in Babson’s business school curriculum, which blends business fundamentals with the liberal arts and sciences to deliver a one-of-a-kind undergraduate experience. You will gain essential knowledge and tangible experiences to prepare you for the modern business world and the communication skills, leadership, teamwork, and critical-thinking abilities that will give you a leg up on the competition.

Blaze Your Own Trail

Explore Babson’s business degree curriculum. And, discover a unique education that sets you apart from the pack—and sets you up for success.

Business Fundamentals

Our core requirements in business fundamentals combine disciplinary frameworks with hands-on learning to create a one-of-a-kind immersive academic experience. By the end of your Babson journey, you’ll emerge with the skills, experiences, and connections that will launch you straight into your career.

Liberal Arts and Sciences

Our core requirements in the liberal arts and sciences give students the opportunity to build critical thinking and communication skills that help them meaningfully engage with the world around them. The liberal arts and sciences curriculum is designed not only to help make Babson students better business leaders, but also holistic and well-rounded citizens of the world.

Collaborative at Our Core

Babson’s unique experiential and collaborative courses are the hallmark of our core curriculum. Required for every Babson student, these dynamic core courses will empower you to create lasting value for yourself, your community, and the world. Courses are integrated and complementary, building across years and exposing students to multiple perspectives on business and the world. They include classroom instruction combined with real-world experience, spanning four years and consisting of three distinct elements.

Electives and Concentrations

Beyond our required business school curriculum, you will take electives that reinforce your interests and aspirations. You have the option to choose from one of our 24 concentrations to focus your learning in a specific area. About 75% of students opt to choose a concentration within their junior or senior year.

Your Academic Pathway: Required Courses

Throughout your learning journey, as you build on each course, each experience, and each opportunity to grow, you also will be required to take classes that complement, balance, and round out your course load. You will apply the knowledge, skills, and tools that you learn here after you graduate—both in the workforce and in your life.

Here is a look at how our required courses in business fundamentals and the liberal arts and sciences work in parallel to provide you with a multidimensional business school experience, only at Babson.

Choose an Academic Path Tailored to Your Passions

At Babson, no two paths are the same. Our course requirements in business and the liberal arts and sciences serve as the foundation to your overall education. The rest of your Babson journey is up to you. Look below to explore different examples of how students can align Babson courses to their passions and interests.

Sample Course Schedules by Concentration

An Academic Experience That Yields Results

Babson’s curriculum gives students the skills they need to be successful business and entrepreneurial leaders, while also providing them with the opportunity to follow their passions and interests in a range of subjects. This winning combination gives our students a springboard for success after they graduate from Babson.

Go Beyond the Classroom

We know that experience is the best teacher. Here, you’ll complement your required business school curriculum, electives, and your concentration with internships, global opportunities, and real-world experiences to pressure test the lessons you’ve learned. Enrich your education by taking advantage of additional academic opportunities on and off campus to pursue your unique interests.

• Take a short-term elective abroad led by Babson faculty.
• Apply to be in the Honors Program, where you can take advantage of specially designed honors courses, cocurricular activities, and a yearlong capstone project.
• Cross register for classes at F.W. Olin College of Engineering, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University.
• Conduct a semester-long independent research project.
• Teach a Senior-led Seminar on a subject you’re passionate about.

From Wellesley to the World

Challenge your assumptions and better understand how to succeed in the global economy through more than 100 education opportunities we offer around the world. More than half of your classmates will study away or abroad during their time at Babson through options such as:

• Yearlong, semester-long, or summer programs
• Short-term electives such as the International Consulting Experience
• Service immersion trips

Undergraduate Learning Competencies

Babson College prepares undergraduates to be entrepreneurial leaders. Our curriculum is an integration of coursework in business, liberal arts, and sciences. In the classroom, across campus, and in the wider world, our students experience this within our framework of entrepreneurial thought and action.

Our graduates will apply this framework to address the greatest challenges of business and society today. They achieve this by starting new ventures or contributing to established organizations. The Babson student experience is guided by the following learning competencies (Note: learning competencies are assessed in specific courses for assurance of learning):

Educational Themes

Our student experience is enhanced by the recognition of three themes across the curriculum and student life on campus. Since these themes address some of the biggest challenges of our world, they require cross-disciplinary consideration and integration of ideas across multiple experiences. Students are introduced to these themes through coursework as well as through the living-learning communities in which they participate.