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:

• Salary today: $120,629 (average alumnus salary three years after graduation)
• Salary percentage increase: 95 (average percentage difference in alumni salary before the MBA to within three years of graduation)
• Alumni recommend rank: No. 30 out of top 100 (selection by alumni of three schools from which they would recruit MBA graduates)
• Career progress rank: No. 15 out of top 100 (changes in alumni’s level of seniority and company size where alumni work now, compared with before their MBA
• Aims achieved rank: 77 percent (extent to which alumni fulfilled their stated goals for earning an MBA)

The Financial Times’ criteria for rankings require schools to be internationally accredited and their MBA programs have run for at least four years and have a minimum of 30 graduates each year. The ranking is compiled using data collected from the schools and a survey of alumni who completed full-time MBAs in 2011. For schools to be ranked, 20 percent of their alumni must respond to the survey, with at least 20 fully completed responses.

regions: Boston

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