CosmoGIRL! (2008)

• Among the "100 Best Colleges" (2008, 2007)
• Among the “50 Best Colleges for Girls” (2005, 2004)
• Best Food (2005)

Hispanic Trends magazine (2005)

• Top 25 MBA Programs for Hispanics (2005)

The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide To The 328 Most Interesting Colleges (2004)

• Among the undergraduate program (2004, 2003, 2002)

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• Top MBA Business Programs (2005)

Success magazine (2001)

• MBA #1 on the Entrepreneurial Dean’s List in their Top 50 Business Schools for Entrepreneurs (2001).

Economist Intelligence Unit (2002)

• MBA Program #67 worldwide, #38 in U.S. (2002)

Kiplinger Magazine Best Values In Private Colleges (2004)

• Among the Top 100 colleges in 2004

The Undergraduate Program

An innovative curriculum incorporates cross-disciplinary integration of learning experiences in management and the liberal arts. The approach offers an increased emphasis on field-based learning, integration of subjects and skills needed to provide a diverse business education, and increased flexibility of the curriculum to support individual learning needs. At the core of the philosophy for the curriculum is the formation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that every Babson graduate should possess. Five across-the-curriculum competencies focus on:

• Rhetoric;
• Numeracy;
• Ethics, Social Responsibility;
• International, Multicultural Perspectives;
• Leadership, Teamwork, Creativity.

All first-year students participate in the Foundation Management Experience, a yearlong program in which students establish and run an actual business funded by the College. Profits from the business support a charitable project, which the students coordinate. The Intermediate Management Core is designed to help the student develop, in an integrated way, the logic of managerial decision making.

The Graduate Programs (F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College)

Programs include the Two-Year MBA, One-Year MBA for Business Graduates, the Evening MBA, and the Fast Track MBA. Focused on entrepreneurial leadership in a changing global environment, the first year of the innovative Two-Year MBA provides an integrated, modular approach that follows the life cycle of a business. Each module provides a combination of academic "streams" that flow together to define and shape a larger topic. All students complete a cross-cultural requirement and work with a sponsoring company.

Selected students in their first-year of the Two-Year MBA program may participate in the Entrepreneurship Intensity Track (EIT), a five-module track modeling the entrepreneurial cycle of immersion, exploration, investigation, refinement, and launch. A critical component of EIT is a delivery system that takes the student beyond the classroom lecture.

Designed for students with an undergraduate business degree and at least two years of post-graduate work experience, the One-Year MBA offers accelerated curriculum and a modular format during the first summer semester that provide students with an opportunity to earn an MBA degree in just three semesters.

The Babson Evening MBA program provides a foundation in functional areas such as behavioral and quantitative sciences with a dynamic curriculum and flexible schedule. Evening MBA students apply these lessons immediately to their work, and bring experiences from the workplace directly to the classroom for analysis.

Babson's Fast Track MBA program is the first-of-its-kind online/onsite MBA program in New England. Fast Track integrates traditional onsite classroom instruction with distance and interactive learning. Once a month, students attend two and a half days of in-depth face-to-face sessions with Babson's faculty on campus. The remainder of the time, students take part in distance learning sessions. This program is specifically tailored for executives with a minimum of five to seven years of work experience, and is a creative approach to professional education for executives struggling to balance work/life issues. The entire Fast Track MBA program is designed to enable executives to earn their MBA in just 27 months without putting their careers on hold.

Babson College has partnered with Intel Corporation to deliver an MBA Program for Intel Employees delivered within the Babson Fast Track MBA program. This program lets Intel employees earn advanced degrees through coursework that applies to the Intel workplace. The program is both academically rigorous and immediately relevant.

The graduate programs are housed in F.W. Olin Hall, which opened in 1996 with support from a $30 million gift from the F.W. Olin Foundation.

Babson Executive Education

Babson Executive Education provides clients worldwide with innovative management development programs that meet organizations' immediate and long-range goals and produce measurable change. The School offers:

• Custom programs designed to meet an organization's development objectives. Clients include EMC, Sony, Sodexho Marriott, Siemens, Fidelity Investments, Compaq Computer, Lucent Technologies, Toys "R" Us, and Vivendi Universal.
• The Consortium for Executive Development, a corporate membership program for Fortune 1000 companies and their global equivalents with common educational goals. Members, all global leaders in their industries, are Telenor, Electronic Data Systems, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Inc., Dow Chemical and Applied BioSystems, Dow AgroSciences Corporation, and Petróleos de Venezuela.
• Open Enrollment Programs, three- to five-day executive seminars focused on specific management and strategy topics. Leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, retailing, bio-pharma and women leadership are among the areas of expertise.
• The Consortium for IT professionals is designed to develop the business skills of high potential IT managers and senior individual IT contributors. Member companies include Lucent Technologies, EMC, Houghton-Mifflin, MetLife, IBM/Lotus, PE Corporation, State Street Global Advisors, State Street Corporation, Genuity, and Vertex Pharmaceutical.

Many programs are held at the Babson Executive Conference Center, an on-campus conference facility designed exclusively for corporate management education. The center contains professional meeting rooms and amphitheater classrooms, full-service dining, and deluxe guestrooms.

Babson/Olin Partnership

Babson College and Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering– two independent colleges -- are collaborating to create significant academic, co-curricular and administrative opportunities for the benefit of students, faculty, and staff at both institutions.

The partnership makes perfect sense: Babson has the nation's premier program in entrepreneurship. Olin anticipates becoming the model for engineering education in the 21st century. Together, the partnership between the two colleges will strengthen the business and entrepreneurial skills of Olin's engineering students, and Babson's students will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of technology-based business.

The two colleges also share a common educational philosophy based on continuous innovation, practical hands-on learning, and an emphasis on a student-centered environment. While maintaining complete independence in degree programs, governance and resources, the colleges' core campuses are located on adjacent land, enabling the sharing of academic and administrative resources and services.

Updated 4/24/09