Babson College

Babson College is a highly selective private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston. Founded in 1919, the school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration as well as masters degrees in business administration, accounting, management, and finance. Babson College is one of the most highly ranked schools for entrepreneurship in the world, having received many accreditations for both its undergraduate and graduate programs. Babson's undergraduate school has been ranked #1 in entrepreneurship for 16 years (All years that this ranking has been given). Babsons MBA program has been ranked #1 in entrepreneurship for 20 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report.[2] Academics Babson offers all undergraduates a bachelor of science degree in business management while the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College offers MBA degrees. Students are also given the option to declare concentrations their 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 (AACSB)[4] and the college itself has been regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) since 1950.[5] Rankings Babsons MBA program has been ranked #1 in entrepreneurship for 20 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report,[6] and is ranked #42 overall in the Bloomberg Businessweek 2012 rankings.[7] In their 2012-2013 salary report, Payscale.com ranked Babson College at #8 of all US colleges and universities, ahead of schools such as Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Yale. This ranking represents an average mid-career salary of $117,000 and average starting salary of $56,700.[8] In 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Babson at #11 among US schools based on return on investment. Babson is the highest ranking private business college. The others are either major universities or engineering schools.[9]