Babson College to Launch Blended MBA Program in San Francisco

The MBA program will begin in March 2010, pending approval by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), and offer a blend of periodic, on-site meetings at Mission Bay Conference Center with distance learning to accommodate the busiest of work schedules. Babson offers a collaborative, team-based learning environment where classmates average 14 years of work experience.

Babson MBA is ranked #1 in Entrepreneurship, 16 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report, 1994-2009; Top 20 for Post-MBA Salary Gain and MBA ROI by BusinessWeek, 2008; and #9 Creative and Innovative MBA Graduates by The Wall Street Journal, 2007.

For more information about Fast Track, please contact Laurel Aroian, associate director of Graduate Admissions, at 781-239-4385 or laroian@babson.edu, or visit www.babson.edu/MBA/SanFrancisco.

Babson MBA Fast Track Details

The Fast Track program's curriculum includes:

    --  Fast Track Kick-off Residency (on Babson Campus): A five-day program
        introduction, focusing on creativity, innovation, and teamwork
    --  Building Business Insight: Eight, 1.5-credit courses that cover business
        foundations
    --  Advanced Business Leadership: An integrated and applied holistic
        management perspective
    --  Electives: Deep exploration into general business management areas

    --  Capstone Project: Work-related or company-sponsored real-world
        application of knowledge gained throughout the MBA experience

The Fast Track program is delivered through:

    --  18 face-to-face meetings, approximately every six weeks at the
        BART-accessible Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
    --  Action Learning Projects (short, highly focused assignments)

    --  Distance-learning components built into the Blackboard learning
        management system (wikis, blogs, synchronous classroom) accessible at
        your convenience

"Babson's Fast Track MBA program was excellent. My class was filled with people with many years of experience in various business settings which ensured thought-provoking discussion both in class and online. The flexibility and structure of the program meant I did not have to take a break from my position while completing the program. The face-to-face weekends helped to provide real immersion in content and learning that's very difficult to achieve in a two-night-a-week program. And, the online component helped to guide progress, in my own time, while away from class, and accommodated a full business travel schedule." - Alison Denby M'06 (Portland Fast Track) Berkeley, CA

Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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