The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business has established learning goals for the MBA program.
MBA Learning Goals
Babson College prepares graduate students to be entrepreneurial leaders. Our curriculum builds functional depth with integrative ability through classroom, experiential and project-based learning. In the classroom, across campus, and in the wider world, our students experience this within our framework of entrepreneurial thought and action. Through increased self-awareness, expanded mindsets, and refined skillsets, graduates will apply what they have learned and developed to address the greatest challenges of business and society today including innovation, growth, integrated sustainability, and globalization. They achieve this by starting new ventures or contributing to established organizations. The Babson student experience is guided by learning goals.
Graduates will be able to do the following:
- Collaboration: Collaborate with and learn from others to accomplish a common goal or create an original work.
- Communication: Develop and express ideas strategically, through written, oral, and visual formats, to a specific audience for a desired purpose.
- Leadership: Lead people to work towards shared goals with consideration of the ethical implications of their actions.
- Problem-Solving: Analyze and assess ideas and data to make decisions and recommendations appropriate to situations and stakeholders.
Babson assesses these desired student learning goals as part of its commitment to continual program improvement. The assessment of these learning goals will take place periodically within identified courses in each program. The data collected will be completely anonymous and will have no impact on student grades. Aggregated results will be used for program planning and accreditation purposes within the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and Babson College, and may be included in institutional research analyses and reports. Further information about the learning goals and assessments may be obtained from the Assistant Dean of the graduate school or the director of Institutional Assessment.