The Financial Times has ranked Babson College’s MBA program #50 among U.S. MBA programs and #89 in the world.   

The Financial Times methodology is as follows.  Each year, a survey is sent to MBA alumni that graduated three years earlier.  This year, the Babson MBA Class of 2005 was surveyed.  The majority of the ranking (55%) is driven by this survey which specifically assesses this class’ performance in the marketplace since graduation (current salary, salary progression since graduation, and career advancement).  An additional 25% of the ranking is based on current student, faculty, and trustee diversity.  The final 20% comprised of three components:  faculty research productivity, number of doctoral candidates and % of faculty with doctorates.

In addition, the Financial Times released Top 10 lists for selected academic categories.  Babson was ranked #5 in the Entrepreneurship category, placing behind Stanford, IE (Spain), UCLA, and MIT. 

This ranking is based on each schools’ alumni response to a survey question asking each to rate the quality of their MBA program, on a 10 point scale (10 = strong/1 = weak), in 16 academic categories (i.e. Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, OB, Economics, Law, etc.).  The program with the highest alumni rating average is ranked #1.

Complete rankings can be viewed at http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html