Nice to see Your Survival Guy’s alma mater, Babson College, hold on to its #2 ranking in The WSJ “Best Colleges in America. The WSJ writes of Babson:
Babson’s entrepreneurial emphasis
Many collegiate business programs require soon-to-be-graduates to pitch their own entrepreneurial idea as part of a capstone-style class. Babson College, which landed at the No. 2 spot overall in this year’s rankings, demands this of first-year students.Hands-on learning begins right away at Babson, with a yearlong course called Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship where groups of students receive a loan of up to $3,000 to fund their own business. The class teaches accountability and resilience, as well as how to create value, says Babson’s president, Stephen Spinelli.
“That has a real impact on how they view all the other courses they take,” Spinelli says. “They’re going to be thinking about: How is this going to help me find opportunities and create business models so that value can come from this?”
Matthew Shadid, a junior, says one marketing class he took included a project where students had to create an event and persuade people to attend. His group ran a matcha stand. “Every class has something of this nature,” says Shadid, who is heading off to a partnership program with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Real-world experiences at Babson can help graduates land higher-paying jobs, Spinelli says. “They show the skills that, ‘I can immediately do something important that’s going to affect your business,’ ” he says.
The Top 10 were:
- Stanford University
- Babson College
- Yale University
- Princeton University
- Harvard University
- Claremont McKenna College
- University of California, Berkeley
- Columbia University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Davidson College
Action Line: If you’re visiting colleges in New England this year and want to stop to talk to Your Survival Guy about your investment portfolio, email me at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com. And click here to download my Special Report: How To Invest After Graduating College for a graduating or soon-to-graduate student in your life.
Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.
