Course registration: Why do we need intensive tracks?

At Babson, we have phased and tiered registration process. Full time students get first preference and in phase I, we get to choose 6 credit hours (2 courses) and then in phase II we get to choose the rest. For people like me who have opted for intensive track like Managing the Technology-Intensive Enterprise (MTIE), required courses in these tracks would be registered at the end of phase I. So, it made my life easier as I had to compete only for one course. However, registration is not so bad as we have options to choose a course in day time or evening time and mostly we can get into the courses we desire.

Specialization seems to be out of favor at Babson. Many people who wanted to take EIT (Entrepreneurship intensive track) or MTIE have opted out to take a good mix of interesting courses. Hope school administration makes note of this trend.

After working on strategic planning in my internship at a leading tech firm, my course selection in second year have changed considerably. I find corporate development to be an interesting career option as well. Taking good finance courses could be very handy in the future.

I could not stop appreciating the curriculum after I started my internship. Our industry analysis in BCAP comes very handy in going through tons of research articles from Forrester, IDC, etc.