Babson College is a

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in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Established in 1919, its central focus is on entrepreneurship education. It was founded by Roger W. Babson as an all-male business institute, but became coeducational in 1970.

History

20th century

On September 3, 1919, with an enrollment of twenty-seven students, the Babson Institute held its first classes in the former home of Roger and Grace Babson on Abbott Road in Wellesley Hills. Roger Babson, the founder of the school, set out to distinguish the Babson Institute from colleges offering mainly instruction in business. The Institute provided intensive training in the fundamentals of production,

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

and distribution in just one academic year, rather than four. The curriculum was divided into four subject areas: practical

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, financial management, business psychology and personal efficiency (which covered topics such as ethics, personal hygiene and interpersonal relationships). The program's pace assumed that students would learn arts and sciences content elsewhere. Babson favored a combination of class work and actual business training. Seasoned businessmen made up the majority of the faculty. To better prepare students for the realities of the business world, the institute's curriculum focused more on practical experience and less on lectures. Students worked on group projects and class presentations, observed manufacturing processes during field trips to area factories and businesses, met with managers and executives, and viewed industrial films on Saturday mornings. The institute also maintained a business environment as part of the students' everyday life. The students, required to wear professional attire, kept regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday) and were monitored by punching in and out on a time clock. They were also assigned an office desk equipped with a telephone, typewriter, adding machine, and Dictaphone. Personal secretaries typed the students' assignments and correspondence in an effort to accurately reflect the business world. Roger Babson aimed to "prepare his students to enter their chosen careers as executives, not anonymous members of the work force." In 1969, Babson converted its three-year

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of business administration and usually including advanced ...

(BSBA) degree into a four-year

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(BS) degree. That same year, the institute became a college, and women were admitted for the first time.

21st century

Babson is involved in a three college collaboration with

Olin College Olin College of Engineering, officially Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, is a private college focused on engineering and located in Needham, Massachusetts. Olin College is noted in the engineering community for its relatively recent fou ...

and

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

(a collaboration often referred to as BOW).

Campuses

Wellesley Main Campus

The main residential campus of Babson College is and located in the "Babson Park" section of Wellesley, Massachusetts, just fifteen miles west of

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

. It is adjacent to the

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Olin College of Engineering, officially Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, is a private college focused on engineering and located in Needham, Massachusetts. Olin College is noted in the engineering community for its relatively recent fou ...

. Undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to take advantage of campus amenities including the student center, the cafeteria, Horn Library, multiple centers and institutes, the Webster fitness center, the Weissman Foundry the arts center, and a new centennial park known as the Kerry Murphy Healey Park, home of the second-largest rotating globe in the world at 28 feet in diameter. Executive and Enterprise Education visitors have the opportunity to stay in guest rooms adjacent to the meeting center.

Babson Boston

The Babson Boston classroom and event space, located a
100 High Street
gives Babson a presence in downtown Boston and connects the resources of the college with the innovative companies, organizations and leaders in Boston's Financial District. Opened in 2016, this facility provides the opportunity to offer MBA courses in a location convenient to where entrepreneurial students live and work. Over the course of the academic year, there are opportunities at the Boston location for students to engage with Babson offices and resources, including graduate programs, the Graduate Center for Career Development, Graduate Admissions and the college's alumni network. From 2011 to 2016, Babson Boston campus was at 253 Summer Street in Boston's Innovation District.

Babson San Francisco

Babson has
San Francisco campus
which includes a Blended Learning MBA program, an undergraduate semester experience and custom executive education.

Babson Miami

In July 2017, President

Kerry Healey Kerry Murphy Healey (born April 30, 1960) is a former American politician who served as the 70th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 under Governor Mitt Romney. She is currently the inaugural president of the Milken Institute' ...

announced Babson's plans to expand to

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, where the Blended Learning MBA, Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) and Certificate in Advanced Management (CAM), three graduate programs are offered. Babson's new hub in Miami is located at 1200 Brickell Avenue.

Academics

Undergraduate

Babson College offers all undergraduates a

degree. Students are also given the option to declare concentrations their junior and senior year from a broad range of subjects in various business and other fields. Programs are accredited by

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International, is an American professional organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to ...

(AACSB) and the college itself has been regionally accredited by the

New England Association of Schools and Colleges The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC) is a United States' regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation. NEASC serves over 1500 public, independent schools, and technical/career institution ...

(NEASC) since 1950. In rankings, Babson was rated first among all colleges and universities in the nation by ''

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'' in 2014. In 2015, the magazine ranked Babson #1 in 10 Great Colleges for Business Majors. Babson's MBA program was ranked 58th overall in the ''

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'' 2014 rankings. Babson's undergraduate business program is ranked 26th overall in the Bloomberg Businessweek 2014 rankings. Babson's undergraduate Entrepreneurship program has been ranked number one for the past 17 years by ''U.S. News & World Report.'' In their 2013–2014 salary report, Payscale.com ranked Babson College at number five of all U.S. colleges and universities, ahead of schools such as Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Yale. This ranking represents an average mid-career salary of $123,000 and average starting salary of $59,700. In 2012, ''Bloomberg Businessweek'' ranked Babson eleventh among U.S. schools based on return on investment. CNN money ranked Babson eighth in their 2016 "Colleges with the highest-paid grads" rankings.

Graduate

Babson College offers master's degrees through its F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business, including a One-Year MBA Program, a Two-Year MBA Program, a 42-month Evening MBA Program and a Blended Learning MBA Program with campuses located in

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and

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

. It also offers a Master's of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership (MSEL), Business Analytics (MSBA), Finance (MSF) and a Certificate of Advanced Management (CAM).

Student life

In 2019, 3,663 students attended Babson, 3,229 of whom were

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-lev ...

s. Student publications include a literary magazine and the Babson Built Podcast. There are several

fraternities and sororities Fraternities and sororities are social organizations at colleges and universities in North America. Generally, membership in a fraternity or sorority is obtained as an undergraduate student, but continues thereafter for life. Some accept gradu ...

on campus:

Chi Omega Chi Omega (, also known as ChiO) is a women's fraternity and a member of the National Panhellenic Conference, the umbrella organization of 26 women's fraternities. Chi Omega has 181 active collegiate chapters and approximately 240 alumnae chapte ...

, Delta Tau Delta,

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, Sigma Kappa and Sigma Phi Epsilon. There are also two professional business fraternities on campus:

Delta Sigma Pi Delta Sigma Pi () (officially the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi, Inc.) is a coeducational professional business fraternity and one of the largest in the United States. Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907, at the School ...

and

Alpha Kappa Psi Alpha Kappa Psi (, often stylized as AKPsi) is the oldest and largest business fraternity to current date. Also known as "AKPsi", the fraternity was founded on October 5, 1904, at New York University and was incorporated on May 20, 1905. It is cu ...

. Babson College Radio was started in 1998. Babson offers a variety of special interest housing, such as CODE (Community of Developers and Entrepreneurs), theStudio (the housing associated with CREATE, the arts-based student club), E-Tower, ONE Tower: Origins of Necessary Equality, GIVE Tower, Healthy Living Tower and Women Giving Back Tower.

Athletics

Babson's teams are known as the "Beavers" and its colors are green and white. The school has 22

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, the majority of which compete in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) of the

NCAA Division III NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their stu ...

. One of Babson's flagship sports is baseball which has won 7 Conference Championships and been to 5 NCAA Tournaments, including the 2019 College World Series. Additionally, the men's soccer team has established a history of success with 3 NCAA National Championships, 27 NCAA tournaments wins and 12 conference championships. The men's and women's alpine ski teams compete in the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) and the men's lacrosse team competes in the

Pilgrim League The Pilgrim Lacrosse League was an NCAA Division III men's college lacrosse conference that had member schools in Massachusetts. League operations were absorbed by the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference for the 2014 season and the l ...

. Babson College's men's hockey team competes in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and has won (1) NCAA D3 National title, (1) ECAC D2 title, six ECAC East Championships, appearing in the championship game in 9 of the last 12 seasons . Babson College's golf team competes in the

New England Collegiate Conference The New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) is an NCAA Division III college athletic conference based in the Northeastern United States. History In June 2007, nine colleges from New England announced the creation of a new athletic conference ...

(NECC) and won the title in 2011 giving them an automatic bid to the NCAAs. They were led by senior captain Joe Young who won NECC golfer of the year in 2011. Babson United Rugby Club won Northeast region of NSCRO 7's in 2016. In 2017, the school will begin construction of the Babson Recreation and Athletics Center, a major new facility that will support varsity, intramural and recreational sports and many other activities by the fall of 2019. In March 2017, Babson's basketball team won the Division III National Championship.

Alumni

Business and athletics

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'89: Swiss businessman * Arthur M. Blank '63 H'98: co-founder, former CEO of

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Peter Boss Peter Boss (born 29 August 1975, in Narragansett, Rhode Island) is a former racing driver. Boss raced in the Euro Formula 3000, Barber Dodge Pro Series and European Le Mans Series among other racing series. Boss retired from professional racing a ...

MBA '10: race car driver * Edward Maurice Bronfman '50 (1927–2005): businessman, founder of

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Matt Chatham Matthew L. Chatham (born June 28, 1977) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at South Dakota. He played for the New England Patriots and New York Jets. High school years Chatham attended Sioux City North High S ...

MBA '11: former NFL linebacker with the

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Anthony Chiasson Anthony R. Chiasson (born August 27, 1973) is an American hedge fund manager and co-founder of Level Global Investors LP, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund management firm. Level Global was launched in 2003 with about $500 million in asset ...

'95: hedge fund manager *

Matt Coffin Matt Coffin is an internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and was the president of LowerMyBills.com, which was sold to Experian in 2005 for $380 million. He was also the president of Experian Online Customer Acquisition Services. L ...

'90: founder and former President of

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'76: businessman * Bob Davis MBA '85: founder and CEO of Lycos * Edsel Bryant Ford II '73 H'00: Board Director of the

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* Scott Fraser MBA '05, former NHL hockey player *

William D. Green William "Bill" D. Green (born August 1953) is an American business executive. He was the executive chairman of the global Accenture management consulting firm. Early life Green was raised in Hampden, Massachusetts and did odd jobs managing ...

'76 MBA '77 H'07: Former Chairman and CEO of

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Frederic C. Hamilton Frederic C. Hamilton (September 25, 1927 – September 30, 2016) was the chairman of The Hamilton Companies LLC, a loosely connected group of companies focused on oil production, real estate holdings and educational institutions. Frederic C. Hamilt ...

'48 H'98 MP'82 (1927–2016): oil pioneer * Peter R. Kellogg '64: financial broker * John Kluge Jr. MBA '17, venture capitalist, philanthropist, son of billionaire

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* Will Langhorne '95: former race car driver * Peter E. Madden '64 P'04 Honorary Trustee: former President of the State Street Corporation * Charles Dean Metropoulos '67 MBA '68: co-owner of Hostess Brands and former owner of Pabst Brewing Company * Geoffrey Eric Molson MBA '96: co-owner, President and CEO of the

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'62: businessperson * Gunnar S. Overstrom Jr. '65 (1942–2001): former Vice Chairman of FleetBoston Financial *

Aly Raisman Alexandra Rose Raisman (born May 25, 1994) is a retired American artistic gymnast and two-time Olympian. She was captain of both the 2012 "Fierce Five" and 2016 " Final Five" U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams, which won their respective tea ...

Olympic gold medalist for

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* Scott Sharp '90: race car driver *

Jacob Sprague Jacob "Jake" Sprague (born December 27, 1984) is an American rugby union player and coach. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Sprague began his rugby career with the Babson College rugby union team, and later played at club level with Divis ...

'07: rugby player * Akio Toyoda MBA '82 MP' 14: President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation * Tim Ryan, Senior Partner and Chairman of

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Food and entertainment

* Marc Bell '89: entrepreneur *

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'77: founder of Quiznos *

Gustavo Cisneros Gustavo Alfredo Jiménez de Cisneros Rendiles (born 1 June 1945) is a Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of ''Grupo Cisneros''. Early life and education Cisneros is the son of Diego Cisneros and Albertina Cisneros (née Rendíles Martínez). ...

'68 H'19: President/CEO of Organizacion Diego Cisneros *

Roger Enrico Roger Anthony Enrico (November 11, 1944 – June 1, 2016) was an American businessman who is best known for his lengthy service as chief executive officer of PepsiCo. Early life Enrico was born on November 11, 1944, to Italian immigrants in the ...

'65 H'86 (1994–2016): former CEO of

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and

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Animation SKG * Stephen Gaghan '88: screenwriter *

Daniel Frank Gerber Daniel Frank Gerber (May 6, 1898 – March 16, 1974) was an American manufacturer of baby food, and founder of Gerber Food Products. He had a management college education and then started working for his father's canning company in Michigan and ...

'20 H'67 (1898–1974): founder of Gerber Products Company * Bernard Lee MBA '99: professional poker player *

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'01: former Citibank banker *

Mir Ibrahim Rahman Mir Ibrahim Rahman (born 11 March 1977) is a Pakistani media proprietor who serves as the chief executive of the Geo Television Network. Early life and education Mir Ibrahim Rahman was born on 11 March 1977 in Karachi, to media mogul Mir Shaki ...

'00: CEO of

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Nelson Woss Nelson Woss (born in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian film producer who made the feature films '' Red Dog'' and ''Ned Kelly''. Career After graduating from Christ Church Grammar School, Nelson Woss attended the University of Western ...

'91: Australian film producer of '' Ned Kelly'' & '' Red Dog''

Government, education, and other

* Craig Robert Benson '77, businessperson, former Governor of New Hampshire *

Vincent E. Boles Vincent E. Boles (born December 31, 1954) is a retired major general in the United States Army and served as the 33rd Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the U.S. Army Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. Military education ...

MBA '88: Major General US Army *

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'34 (1912–1987): 35th

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, 1965–67 and 35th Mayor of

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, 1949–1965 *

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'08: Massachusetts State Senator * Princess Marie of Denmark: attended 1995-97 * Rudy Crew '72 H'96: President of

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* Kathleen M. Gainey MBA '89: lieutenant general US Army * James A. Lewis '58 (1932–1997): American politician *

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MBA '88: lieutenant general US Army *

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'58 (1931–2005): former Economic Advisor of Liberia *

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'29 (1878–1950): major general, U.S. Army * Gustavo Adolfo Carvajal Sinisterra MBA '84: the 24th Ambassador of Colombia to France *

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'49 (1926–2016): former Mayor of

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Jack Tilton John Havemeyer Tilton Jr (April 25, 1951 – May 6, 2017) was an American art dealer, based in New York City. He was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, the son of a father who had studied art at Yale University, designed Christmas cards, and serve ...

(1951–2017) '74 P'09: art dealer

Fashion and fitness

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'87: business person * Count Enrico Marone Cinzano '85: artist, furniture designer and member of Italy's prominent

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liquor family *

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MBA '93: founder, President and designer of the fashion and footwear firm RUTHIE DAVIS *

Natasha Esch Natasha Esch was the president of Wilhelmina Modeling Agency for five years from 1993. She is now an interior designer and the co-founder owner of a shop in Sag Harbor, New York. Since 2010, she has lived in the Hamptons and Park City, Utah, with he ...

'93: former President of

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as well as

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fashion empires *

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