Babson Again Named Nation's Top Entrepreneurship College by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine

WELLESLEY, Mass., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson College has been recognized by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine as the No. 1 undergraduate school in the nation for Entrepreneurship Education and the No. 2 graduate school in the nation for Entrepreneurship Education.

Based on surveys sent to school administrators at more than 2,000 institutions from April–June, 2014, the Top 50 Schools for Entrepreneurship Programs for 2015 lists recognize 50 programs in all—25 undergraduate and 25 graduate—for their excellence in entrepreneurship education.

"We are proud to receive this recognition from The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur for educating entrepreneurial leaders who create great economic and social value everywhere," said Babson President Kerry Healey.

This accomplishment is another in a series of ranking successes earned by the College this year.

• U.S.News & World Report recognized Babson as the top undergraduate school for Entrepreneurship for the 18th consecutive time and the top graduate school for Entrepreneurship for the 21st consecutive year.
• Money magazine named Babson the No. 1 college in America on its new list of Best Colleges, "a new approach to ranking colleges that uses unique measures of educational quality, affordability, and career outcome​s to help families find the right school at the right price."
• PayScale has rated Babson as the top private business college for salary potential of graduates, with alumni earning an early career salary of $61,300, a midcareer salary of $117,400, and a 20-year net ROI of $716,700.

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About The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Rankings

The Princeton Review chooses the schools based on a wide range of institutional data it evaluates for this project. Schools are asked about the levels of their commitment to entrepreneurship inside and outside the classroom, the percentage of their faculty, students, and alumni actively and successfully involved in entrepreneurial endeavors, the number of their mentorship programs, and their funding for scholarships and grants for entrepreneurial studies and projects.

The list of top entrepreneurship programs is available at www.princetonreview.com/entrepreneur. There, users can also access information about the Company's survey methodology and criteria for the rankings and read its profiles of the schools.

Entrepreneur has also posted a feature on this ranking at www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges. The magazine's feature article will appear in its October issue, available on newsstands September 23.

The Princeton Review has reported these lists annually since 2006 in partnership with Entrepreneur Media Inc., publisher of Entrepreneur magazine.

About Babson College

Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds™. The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society—while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Action^® as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value.

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