The business school which specialises in entrepreneurship - Babson College - is to begin teaching an MBA programme in the home of the entrepreneur - San Francisco.

Babson College’s Fast Track MBA - essentially an executive MBA for working managers - is to begin in California in March. The programme will go head-to-head with two of the most prestigious and highly-ranked EMBA programmes in the world, that of the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania, taught on the school’s Wharton West campus in San Francisco, and the UC Berkeley/Columbia EMBA. Wharton is ranked number five in the Financial Times EMBA rankings and the UC Berkeley/Columbia programme number 13.