Wharton Business School
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| Motto | Knowledge for action |
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| Type | Private business school |
| Established | 1881 |
| Endowment | $1.289 billion (2015) |
| Dean | Geoffrey Garrett |
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Academic staff
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452 |
| Students | 4,962 (2015) |
| Undergraduates | 2,543 (2015) |
| Postgraduates | 1,990 (2015) |
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Other students
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429 (2015) |
| Location |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 39°57′12″N 75°11′53″W / 39.953232°N 75.197993°WCoordinates: 39°57′12″N 75°11′53″W / 39.953232°N 75.197993°W |
| Affiliations | University of Pennsylvania |
| Website | wharton |
| Business school rankings | |
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| Worldwide MBA | |
| Business Insider | 1 |
| Economist | 12 |
| Financial Times | 4 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 6 |
| Forbes | 7 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 4 |
| Vault | 4 |
| U.S. undergraduate | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 16 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 1 |
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (/ˈhwɔːrtən/ HWOR-tən; also known as the Wharton School or simply Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton and is the world’s first collegiate school of business. Wharton's MBA program is ranked No. 1 in the world according to both Business Insider and QS, while Wharton's undergraduate program is also ranked No. 1 in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.
The Wharton School awards Bachelor of Science in Economics degrees at the undergraduate level and Master of Business Administration degrees at the postgraduate level, both of which require the selection of a major. Wharton also offers a Ph.D. program and houses or co-sponsors several diploma programs either alone or in conjunction with the other schools at the university. MBA students from the Wharton School earn an average first year base-salary of $125,000, the highest in the world according to comprehensive employment data provided by Wharton to U.S. News & World Report.
According to U.S. News and World Report, Wharton also produces the most CEOs of the 100 top companies on the Fortune 500 list. In general, Wharton has over 95,000 alumni in 153 countries, with notable figures such as Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, Sundar Pichai, Aditya Mittal, Safra Catz, Steven A. Cohen, Jeff Weiner, Anil Ambani, John Sculley, Walter Annenberg, Leonard Lauder, Laurence Tisch, Michael Moritz, Ruth Porat, and William Wrigley Jr. II. Its alumni include the CEOs of Google, Apple, LinkedIn, CBS, General Electric, Boeing, Pfizer, Comcast Corporation, DHL, UPS, Pepsi, Time, Inc, BlackRock, Johnson & Johnson, UBS AG, Wrigley Company, and Tesco.
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