Babson College Overview Brochure

Uncommon Ambitions. Uncommon Ambitions. You’veGot

We do, too.

You might be wondering ...

Is Babson only for entrepreneurs? NO!

What type of degree do I get?

A business degree, with 26 concentration options

Will I learn how business and sustainability connect? YES!

Will I have access to award-winning career resources? From day one!

Will my creativity thrive on campus? More than you realize!

How many clubs and organizations on campus? Over 100!

Do you also take liberal arts and sciences courses? YES!

Do students study abroad? YES!

Does Babson have hands-on learning?

Part of everything we do!

Where is Babson?

Wellesley, Massachusetts (only 10 miles from Boston)

At Babson College, your dynamic undergraduate years lay the groundwork for your life’s work.

You’ll forge connections and exchange ideas with a diverse, global community, expanding your perspective, leadership qualities, and network.

You’ll take business and liberal arts and sciences courses while immersing yourself in practical, hands-on opportunities.

You’ll learn the critical-thinking and communication skills that will serve you in the modern, professional world and help you solve unsolvable problems.

Business as usual has no business here.

What Sets Entrepreneurial Leaders Apart

Strong risk managers

Exceptional uncertainty navigators

Skilled ambiguity explorers

Whatever Your Dreams Are, Babson Meets Them

Our globally minded business education prepares you to think beyond yourself to see the positive impact your ideas and actions can have on the greater world. Your coursework and experiences develop the entrepreneurial skills and spirit that will guide your life’s pursuits and passions.

We call that Entrepreneurial Thought & Action ® (or ET&A™ for short): a way of thinking and doing that you can use to design your own career path.

Our students tackle everything from the role of technology in society to climate change to supply chain issues in their own businesses. They are entrepreneurial leaders who turn challenges into opportunities, finding innovative solutions to complex and urgent problems. The world needs entrepreneurial leaders more than ever, and Babson delivers.

#10 College in America

- The Wall Street Journal, 2023

#1 for Entrepreneurship

- U.S. News & World Report, 27 consecutive times Career Preparedness

- The Wall Street Journal, 2023 for Business Majors

- Money, 2022

INNOVATION

Advanced Experiential

Advanced Experiential puts your skills to the test in a consulting role. You collaborate with an external organization to identify, analyze, and develop real growth ideas. You will gain leadership, problem-solving, and work experience, learn from professionals in the field, and prepare yourself for your career. Plus, it’s experience to talk about in interviews.

Socio-Ecological Systems (SES)

Our students don’t just identify problems, they solve them. SES teaches you systems thinking and sustainable problem-solving solutions for some of the world’s biggest problems, such as food insecurity, climate change, and water scarcity. You gain the context to ignite your ambitions and grow into an entrepreneurial leader, ready to tackle the global problems of tomorrow.

Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME)

Learn business by doing business. In our awardwinning, first-year course FME, you develop, launch, and manage a new venture with a team of your peers. From ordering inventory to running social accounts to designing packaging and managing a team, you will learn (and do!) everything that makes a business run.

THE BABSON FORMULA FOR FUTURE SUCCESS

A Curriculum Built to Last

We fuel your personal inquiries and build your foundational knowledge through handson applications, mentorship, faculty-student relationships, clubs and organizations, and our career resources and centers and institutes.

Our curriculum is designed around a mindset that enables you to be an innovative, flexible, outside-thebox thinker. To dream big and take deliberate action. To see opportunities, value differences, and solve problems—on the trading room floor, at an ad agency, in graduate school, or around the startup brainstorm table.

You will take courses that are relevant to your career goals while expanding your understanding of the world and your place in it. Throughout, you will gain the competencies and skills, insights, and perspectives needed to catch the eye of employers and make an impact wherever you go.

You also have the option to choose from 26 concentrations to focus your learning in a specific area and grow your skills however you want.

Our experiential and collaborative courses are the hallmark of our core curriculum. These three dynamic courses empower you to expand your knowledge base, apply what you’ve learned before, and gain multiple perspectives you can tap into as you grow.

Tackle Real Problems. Find Real Solutions.

We take experiential learning seriously. Here, every principle gets pressure tested. You use the skills and knowledge picked up in your classes to develop theories of your own—and then you test those theories out through iterative, real-world experiences.

From starting a business in FME to consulting projects to classroom simulations, internships, and more, real-life practice is how you become a leader who makes a major impact wherever you go.

Today’s Learners. Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Get connected to a Boston-area business and work on a team to address a current business challenge with the Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) course.

Or, practice your investment skills at the Babson College Fund (BCF), as you manage a $3 million portion of the College’s endowment.

Or, pitch an idea at our campus competitions like Rocket Pitch or the B.E.T.A. Challenge. Or even bring your venture to a national stage through one of our sponsored programs. Whatever you choose, you will hone your interests, foster relationships, and receive valuable feedback.

Because you take hands-on courses across the liberal arts and sciences alongside your business classes, you have the communication skills, leadership, teamwork, and criticalthinking abilities to give you a leg up on the competition. That’s our recipe for success.

–DAVID M. BLODGETT Associate Professor of Biology

Eventually, our students will go out in the real world. As they make decisions, we encourage them to think of multiple perspectives, and how every decision they make has multiple outcomes.

I knew at Babson I would be an entrepreneur and a businesswoman.

– JHENNIFER OLIVEIRA PAULA ’26

At Babson, you are leading ventures and making a difference right away. As part of their Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) course, a group of first-year students pitched, launched, and managed Beepl, a personal alarm safety device. Their mission derives from the idea that everyone has the right to feel safer.

ARE YOU READY FOR FME?

FME is our signature first-year course where you and your team of classmates build a business. It’s an experiential learning experience that will be the basis for your Babson academic journey.

LEADERSHIP

It’s like a sandbox to try out ideas, get advice, and test out what I’ve learned in the classroom.

– MICHAEL AGARD ’24

“Good Company, Good Game: Law, Ethics, and Leadership in Sports Businesses,” brings students to Atlanta to visit the Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses, including the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United. In this course sponsored by the Blank School, students like Michael analyze the challenges these organizations face to help develop strategic and ethical solutions.

Clubs like SPEAR Investment Banking and Scholars of Finance play a pivotal role (in my education), offering opportunities to learn from other students ... and gain invaluable feedback.

–OLEKSANDRA MUKHA ’26

We Practice What We Teach

Our centers and institutes develop leaders with empathy, social consciousness, compassion, and drive to identify problems and create scalable solutions that can benefit individuals, communities, and the world.

Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance

The Cutler Center is home to dozens of experiential opportunities for our students, including our annual FinTech competition, distinguished lecture series, women in finance networking, and courses such as the Babson College Fund. You also have access to our state-of-the-art finance lab.

Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Blank School is a playground to augment what you’re learning in the classroom, test out ideas, and get real-time feedback to guide the next approach. Through our programs, innovation labs, and leadership opportunities, learners develop and iterate their ideas, receiving continuous ideas for growth. Centers and institutes under Blank School include:

Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship

Frank & Eileen™ Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute for Social Innovation

Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Tariq Farid Franchise Institute

Weissman Foundry

Sandwiched between the Babson College and Olin College of Engineering campuses sits the workshop of an entrepreneur’s dreams. The Weissman Foundry is a makerspace where Babson students can create, access tools, attend events and trainings, and learn with peers from neighboring Olin and Wellesley colleges.

We Have What You Need to Succeed

Your experience doesn’t end with the classroom. At Babson, you’ll get the support and resources you need to succeed holistically and find friends, community, and a career you love.

Student Advising & Success

Our Student Advising & Success team is here to assist you with a range of domestic, international, and scholar services geared to your specific needs. Every first-year student receives one-on-one coaching and takes part in industry spotlights and career panels, strategy sessions, career expos, and more.

Hoffman Family Center for Career Development (CCD)

The experienced, award-winning services and industryspecific advisors at our CCD offer you access to an extensive network of employers and alumni in a variety of industries and help you develop as a professional.

Support for Your Entire Well-Being

Support means our students are equipped and empowered to seek out the help they need. We offer a broad range of services for your physical and mental health and wellness, stress and anxiety, and spirituality, including Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS). Additionally, Babson’s Office of Religious & Spiritual Life supports students regardless of their personal beliefs or religious backgrounds.

Our faculty are accomplished professional and academic leaders who connect theory and practice in inspiring new ways. They kn ow from experience that new knowledge is essential, and they know how to teach it. But, they also know that putting that knowledge to use is what brings about innovation. They will be your mentors, advisors, and collaborators, helping propel you to professional success.

Professors who have your back. And a front seat to your success.

Through hands-on instruction and mentorship, we ensure our students have both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to succeed.

– RYAN J. DAVIES Professor of Finance

100% 16:1 20-29 of classes are taught by professors student-to-faculty ratio average class size

PREPARED

Babson prepares graduating students to dive into their first endeavor with the skills, knowledge, drive, and character they need to succeed.

– KRISTEN HOLIHAN ’12, former Senior Vice President - Senior Business Development Officer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (current Managing Director, Ares Commercial Finance) NOT PICTURED

WHERE WILL YOU GO?

Babson students graduate with a firm grasp of business coupled with experiences and skills that position them as entrepreneurial leaders ready to take on any challenge. Our unmatched outcomes are the proof.

Experience That Lasts a Lifetime

Whatever your next step is, your hands-on experience and entrepreneurial mindset will get you there.

By fusing business fundamentals with the liberal arts and sciences, you have the skills to pursue your chosen career path and pivot across industries as markets and your interests evolve. That’s because that mix of skills and training is in demand in a world that needs expansive thinkers, not silos.

Skills and Competencies Our Curriculum Emphasizes

Career and Self-Development Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Equity and Inclusion Leadership Communication (writing, presentation/oratory) Professionalism Teamwork and Collaboration Technology

Build your resume, expand your network, and find a career path that works for you—right on campus. Our team of career experts will guide you through your professional journey from day one, helping you develop a personal brand and marketable skills.

Preparedness - The Wall Street

2023

School for Salary Potential - Payscale, 2023 AVERAGE STARTING SALARY for graduates of the

Employed, continuing education, or involved in volunteer, military, or service programs* of students had at least one internship while at Babson $75,579 98.6% 87% #1 #1

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Where Ideas Converge. And Innovations Emerge.

Sharing perspectives is what we’re all about. The Glavin Office of International Education at Babson partners with top international business schools and organizations to offer you engaging global experiences while earning Babson credit toward your degree. You will discover a new culture, practice a new language, explore a new business environment, and develop your identity in a new global context.

Success Demands Perspectives That Reflect Our Global Marketplace

Spend an academic year, semester, or summer abroad. Travel with a Babson faculty member on an international elective. Or hone your skills on an international consulting project. The connections you make and the people you meet will power your career. And wherever you go next, the Babson network will be there to help you succeed.

Glavin Office of International Education

All we do intersects with the world in which we live, learn, and work. The Glavin Office of International Education is a resource for international student services and study abroad programs.

It’s such a life-changing experience. The world is so much bigger than what people think. There are so many new cultures to explore. ... Each region has its own traditions, and it’s just so fun to learn.

It allows you to discover more about yourself and your interests on a whole new level. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime to explore and get a taste for what’s out in this world.

– TAMAR SALANT ’25, University of Westminster (Fall 2023)

During a typical day abroad, Tamar, who is interested in accounting, skiing, and soccer, would walk to class followed by some shopping on Regent Street or Oxford Street in London, explore a new area of London with friends, and end the day cooking dinner and planning her next weekend trip. Like to Greece!

A Home Away from Home

People from all over the world, with varied backgrounds and interests, come to Babson to share their journey, inspire each other, and create the lasting change of tomorrow. We’re committed to making sure all of our students get the support they need and a dynamic education while having the time of their lives.

Our diverse housing options provide you with the opportunity to live and hang out with fellow students from around the world. You’ll live in one of 18 residence halls on our campus, ranging from traditional residence halls to suite-style accommodations. And don’t forget about our specialized living-learning communities.

With 100+ student clubs and organizations, a thriving arts community, athletics to play and watch, and Greek life, community sits at our core. These opportunities will ground your time at Babson in friendships, ideas, collaborations, experience, and fun.

Belonging at Babson

We are working every day to build a campus that is equitable, inclusive, and accountable to all of the communities and individuals we serve. Throughout the year, you’ll find events, programming, and initiatives that support our community’s many intersecting identities, amplifying voices of underrepresented identities and experiences, and promoting understanding and action toward diversity and social justice.

–STEPHEN SPINELLI

JR. MBA’92, PhD President, Babson College

We are committed to being an inclusive institution that provides each of its students with an equitable education they can use to change the world. Our College was built on the spirit of entrepreneurship, with the mindset that change cannot occur unless we demand and work for it together.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

The Babson campus is diverse and dynamic with so much to do – and we’re close to everything, so there is always something to explore. You’ll never be bored here!

TOGETHER

Many Ways to Fall in Love with Our Campus

Our picturesque campus is your hub to an expansive landscape of culture and activities. We are only 10 miles from Boston, where you’ll find internships, concerts, professional sports, shopping, restaurants, and more. And if you want to explore the beach, the mountains, or something in between, you just need to decide what direction to drive.

Explore and Engage

Visit campus for an information session and tour

Register for a virtual information session or take a virtual tour on YouVisit

Connect with your admission counselor babson.edu/ugcounselors

Attend a Preview Day

Babson’s Preview Days are designed for prospective students and families to experience Babson firsthand. You will learn about our unique, immersive curriculum, hear current students and staff speak about their campus experiences, participate in an entrepreneurial incubator, engage in Q&As, and more. It’s the absolute best way to experience Babson!

Babson Is Test Optional!

All applications will be reviewed for consideration in a holistic manner taking into account academic performance and academic rigor during high school(s), community service, cocurricular activities, and other aspects of the application and candidate’s portfolio. Additionally, all applicants will be reviewed for merit scholarships regardless of test score submission.

DREAM BIG.

When it comes to making a Babson education financially workable, you’re not in it alone. If you have questions, please reach out to us—our staff is here to help. Let’s figure this out, together.

Babson College prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, and veteran or other protected status. This policy extends to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities, including admission, employment, education, and athletics. Babson is accredited by AACSB Internationa l (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Babson College reserves the right to make changes in the courses offered, requirements for graduation, tuition, fees, and room and board. Such changes, when made, become effective for all students.

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