Students will also have the opportunity to meet faculty and staff who will be working with them throughout the year. The FME is a microcosm of how courses in the curriculum all support one another. In it, students form a business, develop a product or service, market it, and select a nonprofit social service organization to which they donate their company's profits. All first-year students are required to participate in a weekly FYE class, which is designed to help them adjust to college life, introduce campus resources, and enhance the development of leadership and interpersonal skills. All FYE classes are facilitated by a College administrator, faculty adviser, and upper-class student.
Classes meet weekly for one hour and are highly interactive and engaging.
During a Coaching Program, students are put into small groups and are given a series of business-related case studies to respond to and make recommendations about. Observing each group of students, is a specially trained group of alumni coaches. In particular, coaches give students feedback in the areas of leadership, teamwork, decision making, listening, and oral communications. The Integrated Management Core is at the center of Babson's undergraduate curriculum. It is structured around a sequence of three expanded courses designed to help students develop sound managerial decision-making skills.