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Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts (Zoned as "Babson Park" ZIP code 02457), is a private business school which grants undergraduates a BS degree. The F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College offers MBA degrees. Babson is associated with nearby Olin College of Engineering, located in Needham, Massachusetts. Programs are accredited by AACSB and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. In the 2004-2005 academic year, more than 1,700 undergraduate and 1,600 graduate students attended Babson, representing more than 48 states and 75 countries. About 19 percent of the undergraduates and 16 percent of the graduate students are from outside the United States.
History Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the "Babson Institute." It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969. In 1992, the radical new curriculum of Babson's Graduate School of Business made headlines in the Boston Globe, which wrote that in fall of 1993 the school "will scrap its first-year curriculum, throwing out traditional courses such as marketing, organizational behavior and finance. In their place will be five sequential "modules" that track the life of a typical business; students will be taught functional skills only when they need them to solve a particular problem—a "just in time" approach to learning." Undergraduate program The undergraduate curriculum integrates business disciplines and liberal arts into foundation, intermediate, and advanced-level courses. All first-year students participate in the Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship(FME), a yearlong immersion into the world of business where student teams create their own for-profit ventures. At the completion of FME, the businesses are liquidated and any profits are donated to a charity of choice. Babson teaches accounting, marketing, finance, management operations, organizational behavior, strategy and economics in one integrated, three-semester course sequence known as the Intermediate Program. As part of the Advanced Program, students design their own learning plans, which can consist of upper-level elective courses in liberal arts and management, field-based experiences, and cocurricular activities. Graduate program Babson features four degree programs, all using Babson's modular approach and emphasizing the practical application of business ideas. Rankings/Recognition By Major Media U.S. & World Report - Undergraduate U.S.News & World Report - MBA Business Week - Undergraduate Business Week - MBA Business Week - Executive Education Wall Street Journal - MBA Financial Times - MBA Financial Times - Executive Education Custom Programs Open Enrollment America Economia - MBA Entrepreneur magazine Princeton Review - Annual College Rankings, The Best Colleges Princeton Review - Best Business Schools (MBA) CosmoGIRL! Hispanic Trends Magazine Black Enterprise Magazine The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide To The 328 Most Interesting Colleges Success magazine Economist Intelligence Unit Kiplinger Magazine Best Values In Private Colleges Prominent Faculty Notable alumni Organizations Minority and international student organizations Religious organizations Campus publications Fraternities and sororities Other Babson's "E-Tower" is an alternative housing option for entrepreneur students. Started in 2001, the building is a meeting place for brainstorming sessions, dinners with entrepreneurs, and other activities designed to foster an entrepreneurial community. Babson's "I-Tower" is a special-interest housing unit that focuses on finance and investing by exposing its members to the American and international equity markets. One of iTower’s primary purposes is to foster an environment in which students help one another on the path to a career in the finance/investing industry Babson College Radio, started by Adam Berger B'01 and Jacob Walker B'01 was the ''first web-based internet college radio station in the country''. Athletics Babson College has eleven Varsity Men's and eleven Varsity Women's intercollegiate athetic teams. All teams compete within the The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference *which is an association of ten selective academic institutions that are committed to providing high quality competitive athletic opportunities for student-athletes within an educational and respectful environment that embodies the NCAA Division III philosophy. The school's mascot is the Beaver. Babson Globe The 25-ton, 28-foot diameter Babson Globe is a notable campus landmark. Built in 1955 by Roger Babson at a cost of $200,000, it originally rotated both on its axis and its base, demonstrating both day and night and the progression of the seasons. It was allowed to deteriorate; the facing tiles fell off in 1984, and by 1988 it had the appearance of a rusty sphere. The Babson administration announced that it would be destroyed, but outraged students, faculty and alumni began a drive to raise money for its restoration. In 1994 the globe itself was refurbished, though it no longer rotates. It was for many years the largest rotating globe in the world and, as of 2005, the second-largest one ever built. (For the largest, see Eartha). The former Coleman Map Building, now Coleman Hall, once housed a very large relief map of the United States, but according to the college it was destroyed circa 1997 when the building was remodelled into student housing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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