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[quote=Anonymous]The answer you get depends on the question you ask. Some excerpts:

"Unlike other school rankings, this list emphasizes one point: How well did the college prepare students for financial success? More than any other factor, it rewards the boost an institution provides to its graduates’ salaries, beyond an estimate of what they could have expected from attending any college.

Beyond the marquee names, the rankings’ distinct methodology highlights some institutions that don’t have as much name recognition but still help their students achieve remarkable success.

Babson College—the small Wellesley, Mass., school focused on business and entrepreneurship—retained its No. 2 spot from last year. Claremont McKenna College, near Los Angeles, clocked in at No. 6, and Davidson College, near Charlotte, N.C., ranked 10th.

In addition to graduates’ salaries, the rankings consider schools’ graduation rates and diversity—and their learning environment, based on a survey of about 120,000 students and recent alumni. The survey measured factors such as quality of teaching and feedback, career preparation and learning facilities, and how likely students were to recommend their school to a friend.

Schools that garnered top scores for learning environment included Babson, Washington and Lee University and Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and Brigham Young University in Utah.

Many collegiate business programs require soon-to-be-graduates to pitch their own entrepreneurial idea as part of a capstone-style class. Babson College, which landed at the No. 2 spot overall in this year’s rankings, demands this of first-year students.

Hands-on learning begins right away at Babson, with a yearlong course called Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship where groups of students receive a loan of up to $3,000 to fund their own business. The class teaches accountability and resilience, as well as how to create value, says Babson’s president, Stephen Spinelli.

“That has a real impact on how they view all the other courses they take,” Spinelli says. “They’re going to be thinking about: How is this going to help me find opportunities and create business models so that value can come from this?”[/quote]

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