The Financial Times 2010 Global MBA Rankings ranks Babson’s MBA program #1 in Entrepreneurship. 

This Financial Times rankings completes the twelve-month cycle of publications that identify top programs for Entrepreneurship.  For the first time in school history, the graduate school was ranked #1 in Entrepreneurship in a news cycle by all three major publications:  U.S. News & World Report (April, 2009), The Princeton Review (October, 2009), and the Financial Times (January, 2010).

Babson, in a 4 place improvement from last year’s ranking, was followed by The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; Imperial College Business School; Anderson School of Management at UCLA; Haas School of Business at University of California – Berkeley; Sloan School of Management at MIT; Judge Business School at University of Cambridge; IMD; Wisconsin School of Business at University of Wisconsin-Madison; and INSEAD.

The ranking is based on each school’s MBA Class of 2006 response to a survey question asking each to rate the quality of its 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://www.ft.com/businesseducation/mba2010.