Wharton University
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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 overall | |
| QS | 5 |
| Times Higher Education | 9 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 3 |
| Worldwide MBA | |
| Business Insider | 1 |
| Economist | 4 |
| Financial Times | 3 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 2 |
| Forbes | 1 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 1 |
| 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.
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.
Wharton's MBA program is ranked No. 1 in the world according to Business Insider, No. 1 in the United States according to Forbes, and is tied with Harvard Business School for the No. 1 rank in the United States according to U.S. News & World Report. Meanwhile, Wharton's MBA for Executives and undergraduate programs are also ranked No. 1 in the United States by the same publication. According to U.S. News & World Report, MBA graduates of Wharton earn an average $158,058 first year compensation, higher than any other program. Wharton's MBA program also ties for first place with Stanford for the highest median GMAT score of 740 (97th percentile) for its entering class. According to the same publication, 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 Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Sundar Pichai, Aditya Mittal, Steven A. Cohen, Jeff Weiner, Anil Ambani, John Sculley, Walter Annenberg, Leonard Lauder, Laurence Tisch, Michael Moritz, Ruth Porat, Kunal Bahl and William Wrigley Jr. II. Its alumni include the CEOs of Google, Apple, LinkedIn, CBS, General Electric, Boeing, Pfizer, Comcast, Oracle, DHL, UPS, Pepsi, Time, Inc, BlackRock, Johnson & Johnson, UBS AG, Wrigley Company, and Tesco.
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