The Wharton School
| Mission | Apply unparalleled intellectual resources to prepare business leaders who fuel the growth of industries and economies throughout the world |
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| Established | 1881 |
| Official name | The Wharton School |
| University | University of Pennsylvania |
| School type | Private |
| Endowment | $615 million |
| Dean | Thomas Robertson |
| Faculty | 304 |
| Undergraduates | 2,304 |
| Graduates | 1,671 |
| Alumni | 81,000 |
| Location | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s first collegiate business school .
In conjunction with the other schools and colleagues of the university, Wharton grants B.S., MBA, offers a Ph.D. program , and holds 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.
Since the 1990s, the popular and financial press has consistently ranked Wharton as one of the world's top institutions for business education. Moreover, it has been ranked the best business school in the world by the Financial Times in every year in which the newspaper has ranked business schools, except for 2005, when it tied with Harvard Business School. Wharton usually receives the highest reputation scores from academics and recruiters.
The school has over 300 faculty members, translating to an 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The school claims that its faculty are the world’s most published and most cited among business schools . Research published in the peer-reviewed Academy of Management journal blank">http://www.aom.pace.edu/amjnew/ ranked Wharton as top institution in the simultaneous pursuit of scholarly achievements and excellence in teaching . Most recently, the _Chronicle of Higher Education rated Wharton's Marketing and Management departments as the first and second in the world for research productivity, respectively.
The admissions process at Wharton is highly selective — it is one of the most competitive business schools in the U.S. A high GPA, high GMAT score, and very strong non-quantitative credentials are typically prerequisites to admission.
The School publishes an influential on-line journal, Knowledge@Wharton, that is "the envy of every other school", and a newly established publishing house Wharton School Publishing. Wharton maintains the world's largest financial, economics, management, marketing, and public policy data warehouses accessible through state-of-the-art web-based data management services, called WRDS.
