Babson ranked No. 1 in Entrepreneurship by Financial Times
Babson College has been ranked as the top graduate program for entrepreneurship in the world, by the 2015 Financial Times Global MBA rankings. Babson was ranked no. 1 in entrepreneurship, ahead of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley and Oxford. Babson is also ranked no. 38 among U.S. schools in the overall full-time global MBA program evaluation by the Financial Times. It is also ranked at no. 73 overall.
Babson is ranked no. 3 among Massachusetts business programs, behind Harvard and MIT.The Financial Times ranks Babson among the top programs in the following criteria:
Babson Holds Blended MBA Info Event
The F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College is holding a visitor event for prospective students at its San Francisco Campus for its blended learning MBA program. The event will be held Dec. 5, 2014 from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
During the event, prospective students can find more information on the Babson Blended Learning MBA program, attend a class and speak with current students over lunch about their experiences with the program. The Visitor Program allows prospective students to explore a particular program delivery to determine if the program and Babson are the right fit. The program lasts two to four hours and is designed to provide you an inside look at the Babson experience.
Olin Students Host Entrepreneurship Forum
The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business held the Babson Entrepreneurship Forum Nov. 14, 2014. The event was entirely student run and was centered on the theme of “Owning the Future.” The event’s panel discussions, keynote speakers and breakout sessions brought more than 25 prominent speakers to the event.
The opening keynote highlighted the newest inductees into Babson’s Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. Attendees also heard from closing speaker Wayne Chang, Twitter’s Global Head of Developer Experience.
F.W. Olin Students Given Opportunity for School Investments
F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business Students have a special opportunity to be involved in the financial investments at Babson College. The Babson College Fund (BCF) is an academic program in which specially selected students from both the Undergraduate and Graduate schools. These selected students manage a portion of the Babson College endowment. The program builds students’ investment research and portfolio management skills and offers practical experience.
The investment style of the Babson College Fund (BCF) is to aggressively apply conservative investment principles. The students conduct intensive fundamental and quantitative research to identify stocks that are good values at their current market prices. Selected stocks are then over weighted within a diversified portfolio. Managers monitor the fund’s overall risk and the sources of risk, aiming to keep risk and tracking error within allowable bounds.
F.W. Olin Opens New Design Zone
The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College has recently renovated the Olin 125 classroom to enhance design thinking and entrepreneurial thought and action. The completely remodeled classroom was specifically designed to enable collaboration, creative thinking and problem solving.
The renovation was inspired by the recent surge in new graduate programs and courses that employ design methods to teach entrepreneurial approaches that required more classroom space that enables and supports innovation. Since innovative problem solving is an essential goal in the MSM degree program, faculty and staff sought to recreate the space to help shape the culture and habits of a creative learning community.
Babson Named Among Nation’s Top Entrepreneurship Schools By Two Publications
Babson College has been recognized by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine as the No. 2 graduate school in the nation for Entrepreneurship Education. Continue reading…
