Wharton School Of The University Of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the United States' first business school and the world’s first collegiate business school, established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton.
Alone and in conjunction with the other schools and colleges of the university, Wharton grants B.S. and MBA degrees, offers a Ph.D. program, and houses or co-sponsors several diploma programs. With the most electives of any business school, Wharton offers concentrations in accounting, business and public policy, entrepreneurial management, environmental management, finance, health care systems, human resource and organizational management, insurance and risk management, legal studies and business ethics, management, marketing, multinational management, operations and information management, real estate, retailing, statistics and strategic management.
The school currently has 278 faculty members, translating to a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The school's faculty is the world’s most published and most cited among business schools.
Business Week and Financial Times have ranked Wharton among the world's top institutions for business education. Its undergraduate program has been ranked no. 1 in the United States by the U.S. News and World Report since the rankings' inception. Its MBA program has been ranked the best in the world by the Financial Times from 2000 to 2009, and was again ranked No. 1 in 2011 (tied with London Business School). Wharton usually receives the highest reputation scores from academics and recruiters.
The school publishes an online journal, Knowledge@Wharton and has a newly established publishing house, Wharton School Publishing, in partnership with Pearson publishing company. Wharton maintains financial, economics, management, marketing, and public policy data warehouses accessible through web-based data management services, called Wharton Research Data Services(WRDS).
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