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Welcome to the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College! All of our graduate programs—MBA, Specialized Master's, and Certificate programs—provide you with a deep, functional business knowledge and an entrepreneurial mindset that will prepare you to create opportunity and overcome obstacles in any industry and job function. At Babson, located just 10 miles outside of Boston in Wellesley, Massachusetts, about 30 minutes away by car, you'll learn to approach business challenges like an entrepreneur would: in a creative, action-driven, and collaborative way. Before we get started, let me explain the many ways you can explore our beautiful space.
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Olin Hall
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Olin Hall is the central location for graduate students at Babson. Here, you can do everything from: taking a class with our innovative, accessible faculty; meeting one on one with your career advisor; gathering with your team to work on a consulting project for one of our partner companies like AT&T, Verizon, or Fidelity; or just grabbing a bite to eat. A hallmark of the Babson experience is the chance to meet and collaborate with students from around the world, and that's what you'll find in Olin—a vibrant community of peers from more than 60 countries, speaking more than 40 languages, ready to learn from one other.
Design Zone
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The Design Zone isn't your typical classroom, it's a space for our students to collaborate and use creative thinking to solve problems. Everything here is portable and flexible, allowing for quick transitions between discussion, group work, and design reviews, supporting the project-based work that's essential to the Babson experience. While all graduate students have access to the space, students in our Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership program, a nine-month, cohort-based degree, will get to know the Design Zone well through LEAP, our Leading Entrepreneurial Action Project, where they work on a team to define, design, and develop a business or initiative that solves a problem.
Lewis Insitute
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The Lewis Institute for Social Innovation connects students to a global community dedicated to addressing social and economic challenges through entrepreneurship. As Babson's social innovation hub, the Lewis Institute touches on all areas of the Social Impact space, from social entrepreneurship to corporate social responsibility, environment, health, international development, and nonprofits, and serves as a thought leader and facilitator for students who want to pursue careers with a social mission. A few signature programs include Babson Board Fellows, Food Sol (an action tank for eaters and food entrepreneurs of all kinds), MBA Impact Hours, Good Business Fridays, and more.
Woodland Hill
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Woodland Hill is a convenient, comfortable graduate housing option with two facilities, secured by our graduate students on a space available basis. Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of campus, Woodland Hill features a common lawn area with grills and a sand volleyball court, and houses anywhere from two to 10 students in small studios and apartments. Each apartment is fully furnished with a bedroom and/or living space, bathroom, and kitchen. Woodland Hill accommodates single graduate students and students with significant others and children.
Because of our close proximity to Boston, many opt to live off campus and take advantage of the area's history, nature, culture, sports, and other entertainment
Recreation and Athletics Complex (BRAC)
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All are welcome at the Babson Recreation and Athletics Complex, or BRAC, our new state-of-the-art, multipurpose, fitness-recreation facility. You can take advantage of three indoor courts, two floors of exercise spaces, and multipurpose studios. Students are welcome to take part in a club or intramural sports such as basketball, indoor soccer, dodgeball, and more. The space includes a 5,000-square-foot weight training floor and a 5,000-square-foot cardio floor. You can even join a group fitness class like Spin or Yoga. BRAC also is home to several campus-wide events.
Blank Center
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Ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work? Don't miss our academic centers, where you can put your education into action by joining a startup accelerator, connecting with expert mentors, and more. We're in The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, where hundreds of students take advantage of resources and programming designed to support student ventures in all stages, from ideation through launch and growth. The Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (called CWEL) also is housed in this building; CWEL encourages women to be entrepreneurial leaders through programming, events, and coaching. And, the Institute for Family Entrepreneurship supports students from entrepreneurial families through action-based learning and innovative programing.
The Commons at Horn Library
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Babson Commons at Horn Library is our new home to technology-enabled classrooms, the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance, and a wealth of academic resources. The Commons is the gateway to Horn Library, which offers access to hundreds of research databases and thousands of print and e-books. In the Commons, you can access our academic resource centers, like the Writing Center, the Math Resource Center, or the Speech Center. At the center of it all is the beautiful Bala Iyer garden, a four-season garden for students to gather in conversation and creativity and enjoy a cup of coffee from our Centennial Café.
Cutler Center
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Located in the Babson Commons, the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Finance and Investments is where tomorrow's finance leaders are developed today. The Cutler Center provides access to a wide array of analytical tools used by industry professionals such as Bloomberg terminals. The center sponsors curricular and cocurricular activities to help students develop the skills and experience needed to be highly effective in finance and investments careers. The Cutler Center is home to the Babson Trading Team and Babson College Fund, an accredited two-semester program in which specially selected students manage a $3M portion of the College's endowment and are mentored by our Executives in Residence.
Glavin Family Chapel
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The Glavin Family Chapel is a sanctuary for Babson community members of all faiths to worship, and a serene space for students to reflect and seek inspiration. It's one of many campus wellness hubs dedicated to students' physical, spiritual, and mental well-being, because we know before you take care of business, you have to take care of yourself. While at Babson you can take advantage of mental health counseling services, stress management resources, substance abuse prevention and education, chaplains and faith services, and other programs that address resiliency, sleep, healthy eating, and more.
Sorenson Center for the Arts
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Creativity and innovation have long been hallmarks of Babson's focus on entrepreneurship, and the arts provide a space to explore the intersection of creative vision and entrepreneurial thought. The Richard W. Sorenson Center for the Arts expands and enhances the presence of arts and culture on our campus. Our regular slate programming in theater, dance, music, film, video, literary art, and visual arts for on-campus audiences and the general public is led by BabsonARTS.
Reynolds Campus Center
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At the Reynolds Campus Center, you can stop for lunch at the Café, browse the Campus Store, meet with a professor for coffee, or just relax with your friends. There's plenty to do outside of the classroom thanks to our Student Life division, your connection to Babson's 40 student-run organizations of all types, running the gamut from business-related clubs to special interest groups and athletic organizations. We also host a number of annual events specifically for graduate students to encourage cross-program networking, such as fall and spring formals, a January ski trip, and Buffonery, a variety show satirizing and celebrating the Babson Graduate Student Experience through playful banter.
Kerry Murphy Healey Park
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We're in Kerry Murphy Healey Park, home to our iconic Babson World Globe and Fountain of Flags. The park celebrates our long-standing commitment to our global community, and respect for our founder, Roger Babson, and his dream that we "appreciate the world as a whole." Global perspectives always have been important to the Babson community, where you can find students from more than 80 countries and an international alumni network with more than 42,000 alumni in more than 120 countries.
Weissman Foundry
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In the Weissman Foundry, students from Babson and nearby Olin, and Wellesley colleges can take their business and product ideas from concept through prototyping, doing everything from building small electronics to creating new clothing lines to developing the next generation of apps. The Foundry features such technologies and tools as 3D printers, large-format printers, laser cutters, sewing machines, soldering equipment, and computer boards. Spaces like these are where you can develop the product you'll pitch on "Shark Tank," like Abby Speicher Carroll MBA'15 of DartDrones; it has the tools and resources you'll need to develop tomorrow's entrepreneurial ventures today.
Roger's Pub
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Babson's dining locations are more than places to grab a meal—they're venues to relax, get work done, or connect with our community. Like Roger's Pub & Grille, a full-service pub in the heart of campus, and a popular graduate student destination for everything from happy hours to group meetings.
Roger's is one of multiple Babson dining locations, including our main dining hall, Trim, where you can choose from traditional American comfort food to cuisine from around the world. Students with dietary restrictions can opt for allergen-free, vegan, or kosher options. Limited time between classes? No problem. Just head to Olin Café on the ground floor of Olin Hall.
