MBA Student Profile: Pablo Acosta, Babson College

Pablo Acosta talks about his MBA days at Babson College.

1. What were you doing before your MBA?

I was a bridge designer      

2. What were your main reasons for deciding to attend business school?

Learn the Economic and Managerial part of a business to leverage my technical skills.

3. What research did you undertake in selecting your school?

I looked at different school in the east and west coast of the US that where placed in the rankings within the 50 best US schools

4. What were the main criteria in your selection?    

Type of offered studies, ranking and location

5. Why did you decide to study either in your own country or overseas?

I decided to study in the US in order to improve my English level      

6. How well do your think the MBA is regarded in your home country?    

It is getting more and more popular in Spain, where we have a couple of good business schools, IESE and IE      

7. How are you financing your studies?

The money I had saved and my parents help      

8. Have you already been, or do you intend to become an entrepreneur?

I will definitely give it a try one I identify an interesting opportunity      

9. Are there any well-known and/or successful entrepreneurs that are alumni of your school?

Yes sure, Babson is number one for Entrepreneurship, lots of the teachers are or have been themselves entrepreneurs      

10. What do you expect to do on graduation and where do you expect to be based?

Work a couple of years in the US as a project management      

11. Where do you see yourself in ten years time:

Own Business: hopefully I will own my own business back in Spain      

12. How easy or difficult do you expect it to be to achieve these objectives?   

Difficult, I will need to work very hard and have some luck  

13. Any other comments?   

I am happy of deciding to do an MBA, it is a great experience both personally and professionally.