Babson Summer Study for High School Students
Babson Summer Study is a 3+ week experiential program for rising high school juniors and seniors to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and become innovators and changemakers. By strengthening your understanding of the United Nations Global Goals, you will develop the competencies and confidence to address real-world problems, seize opportunities, have an impact, and create change that leads to your desired future. While you work with peers from around the globe, you will develop power skills that allow you to enroll others in your vision, confidently master difficult topics, and embrace other points of view all while earning 4 college credits from Babson, the top-ranked college for entrepreneurship.
Babson Summer Study is an intensive pre-college summer program, where you will cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset needed to create opportunities where others see obstacles. Immersed in our unique Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® methodology for turning ideas into action, you will gain practical skills and an unparalleled perspective on real-world business challenges to create value for yourself and for society.
The Course: EPS 1110 Introduction to the Entrepreneurial Experience (4 College Credits)
Introduction to the Entrepreneurial Experience allows you to develop your problem-solving and teamwork skills that you can apply in limitless settings, including business, nonprofit, government, and your career. Using an entrepreneurial lens, you will explore social, economic, and environmental problems framed by the U.N. Global Goals. You will gain exposure to key concepts in entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, finance, business communication, and other disciplines that support venture creation.
Two Formats: Fully Online and In-Person
In 2025, students participating in Babson Summer Study will have the choice to take the program in different formats: fully online or in-person. In both formats, students are enrolled in the Babson College course, EPS 1110 Introduction to the Entrepreneurial Experience. Regardless of format, the course takes place from 8am-11am Eastern Time, taught by a Babson College professor.
Fully online format:
Students take the full course online. The first hour is in a large virtual classroom with all other sections, followed by two hours where sections split into their professor’s Zoom classroom. Meetings with peers to complete group work are held online.
In-person format:
- The In-person format takes place at New England Innovation Academy (NEIA) in Marlborough, Massachusetts, NOT at the Babson College campus in Wellesley Massachusetts.
- The In-person format includes co-curricular programming from NEIA that compliments the Babson College course curriculum.
- The In-person format is blended, meaning that students will be physically in a NEIA classroom with a Babson professor for the full three hours, but for the first hour they will join all other sections virtually in a Zoom session.
- The in-person format offers two options:
- Residential Student: Students live on NEIA’s campus
- Day Student: Students participate in the NEIA co-curricular content but do not live on NEIA’s campus; they arrange their own daily transportation and housing
