"Our scale allows students to delve more deeply into more areas than at any other school. You can do detailed work in real estate, but the depth in finance, management, and marketing is greater too. Once you get excited about something, you're going to be able to drill down deeper, simply because our scale allows for depth. Our best students are adaptable because they've got the skill set, and they're mature enough to apply it as things change."
Joseph Gyourko
Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate and Finance;
Director, Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center
Wharton's faculty are pioneers of business knowledge. They publish more research and are cited more often than any other global business school faculty. Wharton faculty engage with real-time issues to help set the intellectual agenda for business practice and public policy.
Knowledge Resources
Through Wharton's 11 departments and 20+ research centers and initiatives, you have access to faculty whose diverse research agendas provide a flexible and creative environment for your intellectual growth. As your ideas take shape and change, you can connect across boundaries of subject areas such as entrepreneurship, business ethics, health care economics, real estate, retailing, sports business, and leadership and change management.
Faculty-Student Ratio
With the largest business school faculty, Wharton has one of the best faculty/student ratios of any leading doctoral program: 257 professors for 184 graduate students (in the 2006-2007 school year). So, you have more opportunities to work with a wider range of professors — mentors who challenge you to meet their high standards and create your own new ideas.
Cross-Disciplinary Research
You have many opportunities for developing cross-disciplinary research — at Wharton and at Penn's other globally renowned graduate and professional schools. At Penn, you will find unparalleled opportunities to work leading faculty in such disciplines as law, engineering, medicine, economics, sociology, psychology, and mathematics.
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