What Sets Wharton Apart
Howard Kaufold, Deputy Vice Dean and Director of the MBA Program for Executives, on what differentiates the Wharton EMBA.
The Wharton EMBA Difference
The Wharton EMBA Difference
When you pursue the Wharton MBA for Executives, you learn to think differently about yourself , your career, and your life. You get much more than business fundamentals — you get the collective knowledge of renowned faculty and colleagues, all within a collaborative environment. You learn new ways to think about the problems, and you gain the resources to help you solve them.
The Wharton EMBA is much more than an MBA degree — it's a transformative experience.
The Undiluted MBA
The Wharton MBA for Executives gives you an undiluted MBA — the same degree, same innovative curriculum, and same faculty as offered in the full-time Wharton MBA program. With programs available in Philadelphia and San Francisco, you have access to a world-class MBA program from wherever you may be in the U.S. or the world.
A rigorous core curriculum and individualized options offer universal business knowledge and the skills to expand your career path, reposition yourself within an industry, and tackle the most difficult issues facing businesses and societies. No matter how much management experience you have, you will gain the tools to push beyond where you are, and take your career to the next level.
Powerful Knowledge
Wharton is an intellectual hub with unmatched scale, scope, and rigor across disciplines. Wharton has the largest business school faculty in the world — 250+ faculty members. 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.
Experience a fundamental change to the way you think, and do so without interrupting your career. Rather, through the Wharton Executive MBA program, put what you're learning into action right away.
Inspirational Leadership
Wharton was the first collegiate business school in 1881, and the spirit of innovative leadership continues to define us today. At Wharton, you learn leadership by leading. You become your best, transformed through intense learning in the classroom, working with your peers, taking risks, trying new roles, and pursuing your goals. From the day you get to campus, you work as part of a team of high-achieving peers, giving your all and inspiring the best in others.
You 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.
Collaborative Learning
Surround yourself with an incredibly talented group of peers, and then see what you can accomplish together. You learn from the perspectives and experiences of other students and from your frequent out-of-class conversations with Wharton professors. Wharton EMBA students often comment that at least one person in every class has experience or familiarity with the topic at hand. You join a collaborative community — and a powerful global network that continues wherever your learning takes you.
Global Network
At Wharton, you enter a world without boundaries. Whether you choose the Wharton EMBA in Philadelphia or San Francisco, you stay connected and have access to the largest alumni network of any leading business school — 85,000 alumni in 140 countries, including 9,000 MBA and undergraduate alumni in the Western United States and more than 4,300 alumni in Asia. 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.
