Graduate Awards Honor the Best of the Class of 2024
Two members of the Babson College graduate Class of 2024 earned multiple recognitions during the Graduate Awards ceremony on Friday night.
Surya Jayakumar MBA’24 won the Lewis W. Mustard Award for the highest GPA in the Two-Year MBA Program and the Marketing Division Award. Ana Paula Schleske Oliveros MBA’24 won the Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Division Award and the Dean’s Leadership Award.
All 2024 Graduate Awards recipients:
Abdul Ali Award — MSBA Program Highest GPA
- Adhiraj Sethi
Award for Academic Excellence — MSF Program Highest GPA
- Akshay Sanjay Kolte
Award for Academic Excellence — MSEL Program Highest GPA
- Dhwani Piyush Shah
Award for Academic Excellence — One-Year MBA Program Highest GPA
- Jeremy Joseph Hemingway
Lewis W. Mustard Award — Two-Year MBA Program Highest GPA
- Surya Jayakumar
Award for Academic Excellence — Blended Learning MBA Program Highest GPA
- Natalia Forero
Helen O’Brien Award — Part-Time MBA Program Highest GPA
- John Michael Houston
Accounting Division Award
- Lauren Bare
Roger W. Babson Award
- Nikhil Nagesh Athreya
Babson-United Inc. MCFE Award
- Sumit Sharma
- Kirti Kaul
- Stephen P. Connelly
- Rameshkumar Jatiya
- Chris Tucker
- Catherine Noone Ferrera
Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Division Award
- Ana Paula Schleske Oliveros
Dean’s Leadership Award
- Ana Paula Schleske Oliveros
- Olubunmi Ajayi
- Mohit Bansal
- Jillian Leigh Campbell
- Rhea Chandrachud
- Arkadev Putatunda
- Stephanie Dulcey
- Nipun Uttam Agarwal
- Macarena Vives
- Kushal Parekh
Entrepreneurship Division Award
- Iman Bendarkawi
Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Foundation Inc. Global Manager Award
- Maria Paramo Oñate
Finance Division Award MSF
- Ryan Christopher Grund
Finance Division Award MBA
- Raffaello Leonio Aquino
Global Student Leadership Award
- Shashank Ranjan
Graduate Student Alumni and Friends Award
- Kraig Pereira
Management Division Award
- Kate Barbara Morin
Marketing Division Award
- Surya Jayakumar
John Shank Award
- Kathleen Elizabeth Jewby
Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award
- Joseph Praveen Randev Fernando
- Deepanshi Bansal
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