<p>I planned to apply to Babson to study Finance. However, I found this school to be really small, and it does not have any other program besides business. So is this a good place to go. Who are some famous alumni came from there. Does it have a strong finance program that a lot of big companies from Wall Street would recruit there?</p>
<p>If there’s no chance of you not liking business, it’s a good place to go. If there’s any chance you would not like business, then it’s a bad place to go. If you transfer, at most schools you will get little financial aid. So transferring can be costly and limit your options.</p>
<p>Can your family afford Babson’s $61,000 cost of attendance? Have you run the net price calculators to find out? If not, do so for Babson and all your colleges.</p>
<p>Yes it is a college. It is of a unique entrepreneurial nature and people are drawn to it because of that and the individual attention and. It has a good reputation. It is next to Olin, a small engineering college which makes the immediate community a little larger. There is a Babson forum, I don’t think it is really active, but you can do some reading. Usually Wikipedia has lists of alumni. Did you even read everything on the Babson website yet?
<a href=“Babson College - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/babson-college/</a></p>
<p><a href=“Alumni Entrepreneur Awards | Babson College”>http://www.babson.edu/Academics/centers/blank-center/alumni-entrepreneur-hall-of-fame/Pages/home.aspx</a></p>
<p>Oh I saw someone on Shark Tank from Babson, the sharks were impressed with that.</p>
<p>I decided to take Babson off of my list because of a lack of the traditional college feel. Though, I have heard that Wesley College and other colleges around Boston (BC, Harvard, Northeastern) get together if that’s what you want. Great opportunities at Babson especially if you are an entrepreneur, </p>
<p>Babson is much better than Wesley and much less good than Northeastern.
Babson is a very good college to study business and finance if that’s what you’re interested in. I don’t think they’re a target for Wall Street Ibanking though and it depends what you’d like to do on Wall Street as there are LOTS of jobs there. Majoring in math/applied math would be a good alternative.</p>
<p>Is it April Fool’s Day?</p>
<p>oh, @PurpleTitan, you’re so untrusting! and you think so little of your fellow CCers ;
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<p>“Northeastern is much better than Babson” and “Babson is much better than Wesleyan” are, um, not things I would say. BTW, Wesleyan University is in CT. Wesley College is not close to Boston.</p>
<p>My guess is he meant Wellesley (same town as Babson) but he’s still off base. These are three very different schools. If I had a daughter who wanted to go into the sciences or who wanted to be an academic I’d send her to Wellesley, if I had a child who wanted to start their own business I’d send them to Babson. If I was most concerned about ensuring they’d have a job upon leaving school I’d send them to Northeastern.</p>
<p>Babson has a very good reputation. I know nothing about it’s campus, though.</p>
<p>I read “Wesley” and (oddly) figured OP meant “Wesley” 
(not Wesleyan, not Wellesley… seemed obvious to me you wouldn’t compare these to Babson but I guess not…) so, if OP meant Wesley, the college in Delaware (average CR+M in the 900’s, average GPA around C+/ B- ) yes Babson is infinitely better (30% admission rate, average CR+M in the 1300’s, average GPA in the B+/A- range) but obviously Babson isn’t in the same league as Wellesley or Wesleyan - Babson is excellent but focused on entrepreneurship, business, etc, whereas both Wes and Wellesley are elite liberal arts schools. Both Northeastern and Babson are preprofessional but have distinctively different approaches to undergraduate education. Babson is a bit more formal and conservative. Its culture is more cohesive than Northeastern’s. Northeastern has a broader appeal and reputation than Babson - in the business community they’re probably equal but Northeastern offers more fields of study and a wider national reach through its co-op programs. To people living, say, in Des Moines or Natchez, they probably evoke about the same (not much) and to people in the know they’d bring to mind different types of experiences. In the end, between all these schools, what would matter is what YOU do at the school you choose.</p>
<p>Babson and Wellesley, along with Olin, have a cross-registration agreement:</p>
<p><a href=“http://bow3colleges.org”>http://bow3colleges.org</a></p>
<p>My D (at Wellesley) had Babson students in her German classes.</p>