<p>Babson or BU SOM…which one is better?
Got in both</p>
<p>Entrepreneurship –> Babson
Other stuff –> BU SMG</p>
<p>Well the rankings for babson is a lot lower than bu’s. BusinessWeek ranked babson #17 and bu is #37 and US News ranked babson at #23 and bu is somewhere in the 40’s 50’s</p>
<p>Rankings, blah blah blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Depends on what you want from life. Babson is only business. I’ve spent some time there - not as a student or anything like that. The life there is only business. The students there are about business. You will not get a rounded education. There is little attempt to do that. SMG is a business school in a university. SMG has its own curriculum and pedagogical approach, something you should look at because I think it’s pretty interesting.</p>
<p>Babson may be known for entrepreneurship, but they specialize in having their students be well-rounded in all aspects of business. Typically a finance person knows little about effective communication, and a marketing person knows nothing about accounting-- but a Babson student is equally educated in all areas. Business is such a diversified area of study that the education needs to be as well.</p>
<p>And Babson’s curriculum is 50% business 50% liberal arts, so it’s NOT ALL BUSINESS as everyone seems to believe! Here is the site to explore the different areas of concentration; as you can see, entrepreneurship is only one:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www3.babson.edu/Offices/AcademicServices/Concentrations/]Concentrations[/url”>http://www3.babson.edu/Offices/AcademicServices/Concentrations/]Concentrations[/url</a>]</p>
<p>and keep in mind that rankings are made for a reason…</p>
<p>If your curious, I was accepted to BU, Syracuse and Babson with similar aid packages and will be attending BU.</p>
<p>Rankings are crap designed to sell magazines and to set up a horse race in which schools can compete. People like the competition, even when it’s meaningless, and so they come up with a system that pretends to know that school x is at 21 and school y is at 34. They’re also bluntly designed to replicate society’s understandings of prestige and that was explicitly revealed when the history was revealed by a former ranker because the system generated substantially different rankings than was acceptable and so they were changed. The system has been massaged to make sure it doesn’t overthrow expectations too much. That schools game the system is well known. Clemson, for example, a school in SC, a state with substantially below average public schools, has admitted changing class sizes to make sure they hit the metric best. Other schools have been caught faking faculty lists and other metrics. The worst metrics are the self-reported crap about job placement because any halfway honest school will admit they barely have any data at all. The schools that suddenly rise in the rankings cherry pick their numbers to make themselves look better. </p>
<p>I’m always sorry to see that people don’t understand when they’re being manipulated. I hope that as a business major of some sort that you learn to look beneath what you’re told and do some research into such basics as the metrics used so you can understand if the data you’re being presented is valuable and/or real. This is an essential skill in business success. </p>
<p>A person can defend Babson all they want. That’s not the point. I’ve spent time at Babson. It’s about business.</p>