The Wharton MBA Difference
When you pursue a Wharton MBA, you will transform yourself. You’ll gain real-world knowledge within a rigorous, collaborative, invigorating environment. You’ll learn new ways to think about problems, and then you’ll solve them. Because when you lead with inspiration and deep knowledge, you won’t just advance your own goals, you’ll advance society as well.
That’s why a Wharton MBA is more than a degree.
Powerful Knowledge
Wharton is an intellectual hub with unmatched scale and scope across disciplines. You will learn from the largest business school faculty in the world – 250+ faculty members – half of whom have active consulting practices with businesses, both domestic and international. Thought leaders in their respective fields, Wharton professors prepare you for leadership in global businesses, governments, and international agencies.
With more courses, academic areas, and interdisciplinary research centers than any other business school, Wharton is an incubator for ideas and solutions — generating not just new knowledge, but new value for the world.
Flexibility and Depth
Because Wharton has more courses and programs than any other business school, you'll get the range, rigor, and flexibility to pursue your individual goals.
- 18 specializations, including an individualized major
- 250+ world-renowned faculty members, in 11 academic departments
- Nearly 200 electives, plus an intensive core curriculum
- 11+ interdisciplinary degrees
You’ll leave Wharton with both the universal business knowledge and specialized skills to expand your choice of careers, reposition yourself in a new industry, and tackle the most difficult issues facing businesses and societies.
New Ways of Thinking
Wharton professors use the best vehicle - whether it be case studies, lectures, role-plays, or simulations - to convey the most cutting-edge information and insights.
Within the 24 Wharton research centers and initiatives, new knowledge and ideas constantly evolve. Areas of focus include entrepreneurship, social impact management, business ethics, health care economics, real estate, retailing, sports business, and leadership and change management. Explore Wharton's research centers.
Inspirational Leadership
Wharton was the first collegiate business school in 1881, and the spirit of innovative leadership defines us today.
At Wharton, you learn leadership by leading. You become your best - transforming yourself through intense learning in the classroom, working with your peers, and cultivating learning experiences outside of the classroom. Learning at Wharton means taking risks, trying new roles, shaping your experience, and pursuing your goals. From the day you get to campus, you experience how to work as part of a team, give your best, and inspire the best in others.
Our hands-on learning methods give you daily practice in leadership, with learning teams, leadership ventures, and learning simulations that Wharton pioneered and now licenses to other schools. You’ll build skills for organization, persuasion, and team-building, as you gain confidence grounded in deep knowledge, hard data, and sound ethics.
When you own responsibility, inspire others, and follow goals from idea to action, you create value where none existed before.
A Collaborative Community
Surround yourself with an incredibly talented group of peers, then see what you accomplish together. At Wharton, you join a collaborative community – and a powerful global network that continues wherever your goals take you.
With hundreds of activities – from conferences to entrepreneurship opportunities to volunteer work – our community draws its energy from the unique contributions and collaborations among each year’s students. At Wharton, you'll join and contribute to an invigorating cultural and intellectual exchange among students, alumni, and professors from all walks of life.
Global Alumni Network
Wherever you go in the world, you stay connected and have access to the largest alumni network of any business school – 85,000 alumni in 140 countries. Wharton alumni make an impact everywhere in the world and in every aspect of the international business environment. Wherever you are in the world, you can call on a Wharton graduate for help, advice, and support.
