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Babson College was founded on the 3rd of September 1919 by Roger Babson, who held the first classes in his former family home on Abbott Road in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. The institution was originally called the Babson Institute and initially granted one-year certificates before receiving degree-granting authority from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1947.
Babson College is a private business school specializing in entrepreneurship education. Its undergraduate program and MBA have been ranked number one for entrepreneurship by U.S. News and World Report for several consecutive decades, and Forbes lists it as the top business school for graduates' earning potential.
Babson College is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in an area known as Babson Park, fifteen miles west of Boston. The campus covers over 350 acres on land Roger Babson purchased in 1921.
Notable Babson alumni include Akio Toyoda (class of 1982), chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation; Arthur Blank (class of 1963), co-founder of The Home Depot; and Roger Enrico (class of 1965), former CEO of PepsiCo. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan graduated in 1988, and Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman also attended the college.
Babson's men's soccer team has won three NCAA National Championships and 27 NCAA tournament games. The basketball team won the Division III National Championship in March 2017, and the baseball team reached the 2019 College World Series. The men's hockey team has appeared in the championship game in twelve of the last twenty seasons.
The Grace K. Babson Collection of Newtonia is the largest collection of Isaac Newton materials in the United States, housed at Babson College. In 2005, trees grafted from a fourth-generation scion of Newton's apple tree were planted on the north lawn of Tomasso Hall on the Babson campus.