Wharton Students
Wharton’s talented students are ready to make an immediate impact in your organization. They bring defined skills, grounded in teamwork and reinforced through application. From coursework that draws upon Wharton’s unparalleled business knowledge, students are able to work across functional areasStudents enter Wharton with proven leadership potential.

Many have started and developed their own businesses; others have outstanding accomplishments in music and the arts; still others come with experience in information technology and education, in the military and the non-profit world. At Wharton, they continue to refine and hone their leadership skills through collaborative leadership development in learning teams and through participation in 110+ student clubs and conferences.

The Wharton MBA Program receives consistently high ratings from corporate recruiters, our peer schools, and leading business publications. To learn more, visit the website at http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba.

Admissions Profile (Back to Top)

Full-time Student Class of 2010:
Total Applicants	7,328
Students entering Sept 2008	822
Profile of Class
International	40%		(Representing 72 countries)
Minorities of U.S. Origin	26%
African-American	5%
Asian-American	12%
Hispanic-American	5%
Multi-Ethnic/Other	3%
Women	36%
Average GMAT Score	715
Average Work Experience	6 years

Majors and Faculty (Back to Top)

Wharton Academic Majors

The Wharton MBA program is both rigorous and flexible. It combines a strong core curriculum with a wide selection of electives. Core classes develop essential business knowledge, while electives allow students to explore personal interests and build a single or double major. During the first year of the program, the core curriculum teaches critical skills such as finance, marketing, management, and operations. In the second year, students build on this base by selecting from nearly 200 elective courses. The breadth and depth of the core courses and electives enable students to take either a multidisciplinary approach or delve deeply into a single area. Throughout the program, classroom learning is complemented by hands-on experiences to foster leadership, communication, and collaborative skills.

Wharton students can shape their academic experience to meet their personal career goals by pursuing 19 majors and several formal options for specialized study. Approximately 10 percent of the class designs an individualized major to suit their specific professional interests.

The majors offered by Wharton’s departments include:
Accounting
Business and Public Policy
Entrepreneurial Management
Environmental and Risk Management
Finance
Health Care Management
Human Resource and Organizational Management
Information: Strategy and Economics
Insurance and Risk Management
Managing Electronic Commerce
Marketing
Marketing and Operations Management
Multinational Management
Operations and Information Management
Real Estate
Statistics
Strategic Management
Individualized Major

Wharton Faculty

Wharton has the world’s largest and most published business school faculty with 250+ standing and associated faculty members.Working across Wharton’s 11 academic departments and more than 20 major research centers and initiatives, these faculty members bring a high level of interdisciplinary knowledge to bear on their research. Collaborating with the 12 world-class schools of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton/INSEAD Alliance, Wharton faculty create a powerful research nexus globally connected across Philadelphia, San Francisco, Singapore, and Fontainebleau.

Faculty work is disseminated throughout the global business community through publications, conferences, and online resources—influencing governments, economic policy, and business practice. Graduate and undergraduate students, as well as senior executives, benefit from this emerging research and are able to transform organizations across the globe as Wharton alumni. In addition, Knowledge@Wharton, the School’s free biweekly, online business journal, provides worldwide access to Wharton's cutting-edge research and influential ideas, with more than 1 million subscribers in 189 countries. Knowledge@Wharton is now offered in English, Spanish, Chinese, Indian, and Portuguese editions. Wharton School Publishing, an innovative venture with Pearson Education, reaches readers across the globe with books and tools from a select group of the world’s foremost business thinkers.

Wharton’s research centers and initiatives reflect the full diversity and rigor of research interests and activity at the School. Their work generates courses, academic programs, community outreach, published research, and partnerships among academics, government, and industry.