This page was updated March 2026.
There are three colleges in Wellesley, Mass:
- Babson College—231 Forest St., Babson Park, MA 02457
- MassBay Community College—50 Oakland St., Wellesley, MA 02481
- Wellesley College—106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481
Babson College
Babson College is a private four-year business school that educates its 2,800 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate school is known for its entrepreneurship programs.
MassBay Community College
A 2023 profile of MassBay’s students show that the 6,000 full and part-time students across the open-access college’s three campuses (in addition to Wellesley, there are locations in Framingham and Ashland) generally attend school part-time, have at least one job, are age 26 on average, and are attracted to MassBay for programs such as automotive, health science, and business. Many come for associates degrees, but many others use MassBay as a way station on their path to a bachelor’s degree-granting college.
“Community colleges have a reputation, unjust I think, of being an extension of high school. But what we do is serious academic work, but with supports…,” MassBay president David Podell said, that include addressing food insecurity, childcare, and transportation. “So we’ve moved somewhat into the social services field.”
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a four-year women’s college once categorized as a member of the “Seven Sisters” liberal arts colleges in the northeast. The private institution enrolls about 2,300 undergraduates at the 500-acre campus that regularly appears on “most beautiful campuses” lists. Famous graduates include Hillary Clinton, whose illustrious political career included turns as Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013; a US senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, first lady of the United States, as the wife of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001; and Democratic candidate for president in the 2016 presidential election (Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump).
