Our curriculum is like no other. As such, Babson students are prepared for their professional careers in ways that are unmatched by other schools.
Here are some of the highlights.
Core Values
Our core values:
- Rhetoric
- Quantitative Analysis
- Entrepreneurial and Creative Thinking
- Global and Multicultural Perspectives
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Leadership and Teamwork
- Critical and Integrative Thinking
These values are introduced and reinforced throughout an undergraduate’s four years.
Curriculum
- Our curriculum breaks down the artificial barriers between disciplines by emphasizing an integrated, holistic approach to learning.
- The undergraduate curriculum integrates core management competencies, key business disciplines, and the arts and sciences into foundation, intermediate, and advanced-level courses.
- Students take business and arts and sciences coursework throughout all four years.
Foundation Program
The Foundation Program gives students the skills and knowledge on which the rest of the Babson education is built, including business and arts and sciences courses. The cornerstone of the program is the Foundation Management Experience, where student teams invent, develop, launch, manage, and liquidate real businesses. At the end of the year, students donate their profits to community service programs. In 2005, a record $62,500 was donated to a variety of charitable organizations.
Students also participate in a weekly First-Year Experience seminar designed to address the transition to college life. In the spring semester, students participate in the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork program, designed to help students develop their leadership, teamwork, decision-making, listening, and oral communication skills through alumni feedback.
Intermediate Program
The core of the Intermediate Program, which covers the sophomore year and the first semester of junior year, is a three-semester, integrated series of courses called the Intermediate Management Experience. This integrated management core offering incorporates accounting, economics, finance, marketing, organizational behavior, operations, and strategy.
A team of professors teaches the key facets of business and how they relate to and interact with one another. Through carefully developed case studies, students examine actual business problems. Students also gain real-world experience by studying, touring, and presenting on local companies. At this level, students also develop their knowledge in history and the social sciences, literature and visual arts, and culture and values. Students also participate in an advanced version of the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program.
Advanced Program
In the Advanced Program, as students reflect on career and life goals, they are free to expand and fine-tune core competencies. During this time, students take courses in advanced management and liberal arts electives, and they can participate in field-based experiences, such as internships or consulting experiences.
