<p>I get admitted to Babson College with $23000 every year, and I'm considering my ED2 school.
How do you guys think about Babson vs. Hamilton College? Especially about the employment rate after graduation? Do companies recognize Babson?
I think if I apply Hamilton for ED2, I will have a chance to get in, but I still not sure if I need to give up Babson.</p>
<p>I am considering about learning business, but Babson is like only has business education.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you want what Babson offers, a business and entrepreneurship major, i think it is a very good school for developing strong critical thinking skills and a liberal arts style program. A superb education. Money magazine just rated Babson number one in their college list. Yes employers know about it, although it is a small school. But if you are not sure that you may want a different major Hamilton is also very good LAC. The Babson acceptance is not Binding? I think you are lucky to get the admit and the aid, but up to what you want. The school is in a good location and right next to Olin engineering for joint projects and I think you can take classes at a few other colleges.</p>
<p>Look up the Money Magazine article as it talks favorably about the job prospects. But they train you to go into business for yourself too. If you are an international, however, you will have visa issues.</p>
<p>Babson is the best college for business, its a business school only… You can directly get a great job after graduating. Dont even think about other schools. Thats a great price too!</p>
<p>It totally depends what you want to study. If you want business, go with Babson – if you want liberal arts go with Hamilton.</p>
<p>Babson is one of the very best undergraduate business schools in the nation, while Hamilton is an excellent (first tier) LAC. Now, if you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN your career and your life will remain business - financially - commercially focused, Babson would be a great choice. However, were you to ask a thousand Bachelor’s only graduates of outstanding schools, “did your life and professional preferences change once (or more) during your undergraduate days (and for a few years thereafter),?” I suspect most would indicate they did, possibly several times.</p>
<p>That’s introduces the vital question for your consideration. A Hamilton liberal arts degree potentially provides a wide-range of long-term career options, but a Babson graduate’s flexibility may be considerably more constrained. Only you can make this decision, but please remember, historically the norm is modifications in major and/or field of interest during the next (possibly) ten years of your life. At Hamilton, you could easily move from economics, to history, to literature, to biology, to mathematics, to chemistry (and so forth) – it’s liberal arts, and that is fundamentally about broad intellectual exploration. Could you do anything approaching this at Babson?</p>
<p>Hamilton is a top LAC and has an excellent alumni network. TopTier raises great points about various areas of study. I’d also add that Hamilton strongly stresses writing skills, which are critical to virtually every area of employment and certainly for graduate programs. Babson is more focused on technical business skills while Hamilton on critical thinking.</p>
Some good advice so far … The rise to a position in business, whether traditional or entrepreneurial, often begins with a liberal arts education, perhaps followed by an MBA. It might reassure you to know that Proctor and Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Netflix cofounder Marc Sanford both attended Hamilton. And of historical interest, the Hamilton graduates Bristol and Myers began their company in the village of Clinton.
In a similar position, I would probably make my decision after a perusal of the course catalogs. A liberal arts education is great, but you still have to “want” it. In other words, for Hamilton to be right for you, you shouldn’t only see their course offerings as enriching, but also as exciting.