Year in Review: Favorite Stories of 2025
Another year, another No. 2 ranking, another national championship, and countless other milestones and achievements.
Yes, 2025 was one memorable year.
For the second year in a row, Babson was named the No. 2 Best College in the United States by The Wall Street Journal. Babson also was named the No. 1 undergraduate school for entrepreneurship for the 29th consecutive time and the No. 1 MBA program in entrepreneurship for the 32nd consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report. In its inaugural college rankings, LinkedIn ranked Babson No. 1 in four categories, including for the strongest alumni network in the country, and No. 7 overall in the United States.
Also, for the second year in a row, Olivia Soffer ’25 and Matia Cristiani ’26 won the NCAA Division III national championship in women’s doubles tennis. Among the major accomplishments during the year, Babson College also:
- Launched an expanded Professional and Executive Education portfolio.
- Formally broke ground on its new Executive Lodge and Conference Center (ELCC), in conjunction with the next phase of the Herring Family Entrepreneurial Leadership Village (HELV).
- Brought the inaugural cohort of the College’s new Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program to campus.
- Unveiled groundbreaking research to advance the field of entrepreneurial leadership.
- Launched the new TARCO Institute for Real Estate and Entrepreneurship within the Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
At Babson Thought & Action, we covered all of it, and so much more. Here are 10 of our favorite stories of 2025:
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