About Wharton

The World’s First Business School

For more than 135 years, Wharton has been the place where visionaries, inventors, and trailblazers get their start.

In 1881, American entrepreneur and industrialist Joseph Wharton established the world’s first collegiate school of business at the University of Pennsylvania — a radical idea that revolutionized both business practice and higher education.

Since then, the Wharton School has continued innovating to meet mounting global demand for new ideas, deeper insights, and  transformative leadership. We blaze trails, from the nation’s first collegiate center for entrepreneurship in 1973 to our latest research centers in alternative investments and neuroscience.

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Our strategic plan guiding us towards greater influence, innovation, and engagement.

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Our strategic plan guiding us towards greater influence, innovation, and engagement.

Statistics

5,063 Students Spread Across Four Degree Programs


2,617 Undergraduates

1,784 MBA Students

463 EMBA Students

199 Doctoral Students


More than 13,000 participants in Wharton’s Executive Education programs


Since 2015 more than 200,000 certificates earned from Wharton Online.

241 Standing Faculty Spread Across 10 Departments


241 Standing Faculty Members


243 Non-Standing Faculty Members (Full- and Part-time)


140 Female Faculty Members


116 International Faculty Members


105,000 Alumni and 77 Alumni Clubs Spread Across 153 Countries


930 Africa & Middle East


5,660 Asia


380 Australia & New Zealand


1,370 Caribbean & Latin America


4,510 Europe


79,280 North America


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