From day one, you’ll be fully immersed in Babson’s undergraduate business degree curriculum, which blends business classes with the liberal arts and sciences to deliver a one-of-a-kind undergraduate business program. Through your undergraduate courses, you will gain essential knowledge and tangible experiences to prepare you for the modern business world and the communication skills, leadership, teamwork, and critical-thinking abilities that will give you a leg up on the competition.
Explore Babson’s business degree curriculum. And, discover a unique education that sets you apart from the pack—and sets you up for success.
Our core requirements in business fundamentals combine disciplinary frameworks with experiential education to create a one-of-a-kind immersive academic experience. By the end of your Babson journey, you’ll emerge with the skills, experiences, and connections that will launch you straight into your career.
Our core requirements in the liberal arts and sciences give students the opportunity to build critical thinking and communication skills that help them meaningfully engage with the world around them. The liberal arts and sciences curriculum is designed not only to help make Babson students better business leaders, but also holistic and well-rounded citizens of the world.
Our students take a blend of business classes and liberal arts and sciences courses, with six foundational classes in their first years, including FME. Their course blend then shifts depending on the concentration and electives a student chooses to pursue.
is when you’ll begin to experience a full business school education, blended with the liberal arts and sciences
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core experiential learning courses in which every Babson student will participate
areas of focus to choose from to tailor your Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree
Babson’s unique experiential and collaborative courses are the hallmark of our undergraduate business degree curriculum. Required for every Babson student, these dynamic core courses will empower you to create lasting value for yourself, your community, and the world. Courses are integrated and complementary, building across years and exposing students to multiple perspectives on business and the world. They include classroom instruction combined with real-world experience, spanning four years and consisting of three distinct elements.
An award-winning core first-year course that teaches you entrepreneurial leadership from the startup perspective by creating, launching, and managing a new business venture.
Second- or third-year coursework focused on the science behind how people and nature work together and why that matters. You’ll learn to identify and understand dynamic cultural, ecological, and economic systems.
Required in the third or fourth year, these experiential learning courses include applied projects at companies and nonprofits. You’ll gain leadership experience from inside an organization by collaborating to identify, analyze, and develop opportunities for growth.
Beyond our required undergraduate business school curriculum, you will take electives that reinforce your interests and aspirations. You have the option to choose from one of our 24 undergraduate business concentrations to focus your learning in a specific area. About 75% of students opt to choose a concentration within their junior or senior year.
When in interviews, when crafting scenarios, I took from my FME experiences. Having that background made me a better candidate. It’s key to gaining the soft skills that companies and roles demand. I also drew on case studies. In Strategic Marketing, we acted as marketing consultants for a Babson alum’s company. I specifically talked about that experience in my interviews. My Babson education helped me craft a career and the stories I needed to tell for it.
Throughout your learning journey, as you build on each course, each experience, and each opportunity to grow, you also will be required to take classes that complement, balance, and round out your course load. You will apply the knowledge, skills, and tools that you learn here after you graduate—both in the workforce and in your life.
Here is a look at how our required undergraduate courses in business fundamentals and the liberal arts and sciences work in parallel to provide you with a multidimensional undergraduate business degree, only at Babson.
At Babson, no two paths are the same. Our course requirements in business and the liberal arts and sciences serve as the foundation to your overall education. The rest of your Babson journey is up to you. Look below to explore different examples of how students can align Babson undergraduate classes to their passions and interests.
Babson’s undergraduate business curriculum gives students the skills they need to be successful business and entrepreneurial leaders, while also providing them with the opportunity to follow their passions and interests in a range of subjects. This winning combination gives our students a springboard for success after they graduate from Babson.
Best Undergraduate Business School by Salary Potential, 2024
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“I saw how they valued corporate social responsibility and social innovation, and that really encouraged me to come to a place where I could major in business but also concentrate in environmental sustainability, and be surrounded with a lot of like-minded individuals.”
“I had developed a venture idea to create a non-profit organization to help human-trafficking survivors incorporate into society through business. And, I really look forward to making efforts to stopping human trafficking while at Babson.”
Anthropology of Law. Global Environmental Activism. The History and Ethics of Capitalism. Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship. Photography. Find classes that hook you just for a semester, or for a lifetime.
We know that experience is the best teacher. Here, you’ll complement your required business school curriculum, electives, and your concentration with internships, global opportunities, and real-world experiences to pressure test the lessons you’ve learned. Enrich your education by taking advantage of additional academic opportunities on and off campus to pursue your unique interests.
Challenge your assumptions and better understand how to succeed in the global economy through more than 100 education opportunities we offer around the world. More than half of your classmates will study away or abroad during their time at Babson through options such as:
Babson professors are experts in their fields, accessible mentors, advisors, and confidants who prepare you for personal and professional success.
Babson College prepares undergraduates to be entrepreneurial leaders. Our curriculum is an integration of coursework in business, liberal arts, and sciences. In the classroom, across campus, and in the wider world, our students experience this within our framework of entrepreneurial thought and action.
Our graduates will apply this framework to address the greatest challenges of business and society today. They achieve this by starting new ventures or contributing to established organizations. The Babson student experience is guided by the following learning competencies (Note: learning competencies are assessed in specific courses for assurance of learning):
Collaborate with and learn from others to accomplish a common goal or create an original work.
Develop and express ideas strategically, through written, oral, and visual formats, to a specific audience for a desired purpose.
Lead people to recognize and act on opportunities with consideration of context.
Identify, analyze and resolve ethical issues arising in the professional context.
Recognize and apply integrated systems approaches to simultaneously address social responsibility, ecological integrity, and value creation in decision-making processes.
Analyze and assess ideas and data to make decisions and recommendations appropriate to situations and stakeholders.
Our student experience is enhanced by the recognition of three themes across the curriculum and student life on campus. Since these themes address some of the biggest challenges of our world, they require cross-disciplinary consideration and integration of ideas across multiple experiences. Students are introduced to these themes through coursework as well as through the living-learning communities in which they participate.
how individuals create, identify, assess, shape, and act on opportunities with empathy in a variety of contexts and organizations;
how individuals identify and strive to eliminate barriers associated with bias, access, and equity related to individual and social identities in order to create a climate of belonging and respect; and
how individuals understand and adapt to social, cultural, and intellectual diversity around the world.
