Advancing business. Advancing society.
The birthplace of business education in 1881, Wharton today is the most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world. An international community of student, faculty, and alumni leaders, we remain on the forefront of global progress.
Knowledge Leadership Global Influence
Leadership
The first collegiate business school, driven by a spirit of responsibility.
Inspired by Joseph Wharton's vision to educate the "pillars of the State, whether in private or in public life." Wharton prepares leaders for the complex challenges of our interconnected world. Here students become their best, altered by immersive classroom learning, collaborations with outstanding peers, and new leadership opportunities. Upon graduation, they join Wharton's 88,000 alumni, becoming the kind of leaders who adhere to principle, motivate others, and transform organizations and societies worldwide.
Alumni and faculty who made an impact over Wharton's first 125 years. Read more »
Leadership in Action
Leadership at Wharton is grounded in business knowledge. It is practiced and tested with individual feedback, hands-on experience, access to industry leaders, and work with diverse classmates. Our graduates lead with confidence drawn from deep thinking, hard data, and sound ethics.
Wharton students are active participants in their education — they take responsibility, collaborate, and lead. In over 100 MBA and 40 undergraduate clubs, they create opportunities for themselves and take on real-world projects.
Collaborative Community
Wharton's open culture makes collaboration a way of life at all levels. Learning teams are the cornerstone of the MBA first-year curriculum and the undergraduate Management 100 course, producing leaders who understand their own impact on organizations and communities.
Wharton students lead more than 140 clubs and conferences, work with the administration to effect change, and consult with organizations through activities such as the Global Consulting Practicum, the Field Application Project, and the Global Immersion Programs. Leadership and collaboration are as inextricable at Wharton as they are in the business world at large.
Putting Management 100 to Use after Just One Year
Undergraduate students test their skills at the front of the classroom as TAs. Read more »
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Wharton faculty, students, and alumni are fundamentally entrepreneurial: active, innovative, and risk-taking. Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs seeds and supports innovation and entrepreneurship globally through its many teaching, research, and outreach activities.
Together with Penn, Wharton provides students with a vast array of entrepreneurial programs and opportunities from the Wharton Business Plan Competition and Venture Initiation Program to the PennVention competition and Penn's Center for Technology Transfer. The result? Wharton students and alumni are building entrepreneurial enterprises around the world and having an impact on virtually every industry creating new products, ventures, and opportunities where none existed before.
Four Days + Four Nights = Six Businesses
Prof. Karl Ulrich's fast-paced Wharton | San Francisco workshop enables new learning and a real venture. Go to article »
Social Responsibility
Social responsibility is a core Wharton value. It's taught in our leadership curriculum, and through dozens of academic programs and courses, including our newest undergraduate concentration, Social Impact and Responsibility. Wharton's commitment to social responsibility is centered in the Wharton Programs for Social Impact.
Outside the curriculum, faculty projects like the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership and the Societal Wealth Creation program produce knowledge and leadership for the greater good.
Across campus, students are engaged in an ever-growing number of service initiatives and clubs. Meanwhile our alumni work locally and globally in a variety of capacities leading governments, growing nonprofits, founding microfinance organizations, working in healthcare and NGOs, supporting alternative energy sources, and funding philanthropic efforts around the world.
Profitability for Good
How Business Is the Best Chance for Solving the World's Problems. Read more »
