Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business is among the Princeton Review’s "Best 296 Business Schools" (Random House / Princeton Review), published today.

Below is an excerpt from the Review:

“Students tell us that Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business has “an excellent reputation for entrepreneurship,” meaning that it “is 100 percent focused on the number-one trend in business today.” Some, in fact, are convinced that this is “the best entrepreneurship program in the United States,” and can point to top rankings in entrepreneurial business management and opportunity identification and assessment to back their opinions."

"Babson’s highly integrated curriculum “is incredibly rigorous. . . . None of the academic cases focuses on any one discipline. Instead, we look at a business case from many perspectives, just as a businessperson must in the ‘real world.’ A strategy problem is not simply a strategy problem. It has marketing, operational, organizational, and financial implications (among others) as well.” One student adds, “Babson is known for developing the full thinker. The teaching methods and courses encourage creative thinking and idea generation. The professors and students, the clubs and the environment all weave together to support a balanced education focused on integrated business management from finances to leadership, both inside and outside of the classroom.” This approach makes Babson “a good program for general management” as well as for entrepreneurship. Students also praise Babson’s curriculum in technology management and tell us that “the school is making significant ground in areas that support entrepreneurship, such as the private equity and venture capital arenas.””

The Princeton Review compiled the lists based on its surveys of 19,000 students attending the 296 business schools in the books, and on school-reported data. 

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