The Financial Times has named Babson College the #1 MBA program in the world for Entrepreneurship. 

Babson ranks ahead of Stanford University, UCLA, MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Texas, Imperial College London, University of Southern California, Instituto de Empresa, and IMD.

Babson is ranked consistently as one of the top colleges in the world for entrepreneurship by many publications:

• U.S. News & World Report-MBA #1 in Entrepreneurship (1994-2005)
• Wall Street Journal-MBA #2 for Entrepreneurship (2004, 2003)
• Entrepreneur magazine #1 in Entrepreneurship among national/regional programs (ranked by program directors, faculty, and alumni) (2004, 2005)
• U.S. News & World Report-Undergraduate #1 in Entrepreneurship (1995,  96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05) (the only years for this ranking)

Financial Times ranked the overall Babson MBA program #48 in the U.S. and # 77 in the world.

Ranking measurement: 55% of FT’s 2006 rankings are driven by each school’s MBA Class of 2002’s performance in the marketplace since graduation (salary progression and career advancement).  25% of the ranking is based on student, faculty, and trustee diversity, and the final 20% is based on idea generation by faculty (research).

FT contacted 149 business schools and eventually ranked 112 schools. The FT rankings, which were released today, are available at www.ft.com