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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 | Patrick T. Harker |
| Faculty | 304 |
| Undergraduates | 2,304 |
| Graduates | 1,671 |
| Alumni | 81,000 |
| Location | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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 oldest business school. In conjunction with the other schools and colleagues of the university, Wharton grants B.S., MBA and Ph.D. degrees, and holds several diploma programs.
Since the 1990s, the popular press has repeatedly ranked Wharton as one of the top institutions for business education in the world . Moreover, it has been ranked the best business school in the world by Financial Times in every year in which the magazine has ranked business schools, except for 2005, when it tied with Harvard. Wharton usually receives the highest reputational scores from academics and recruiters..
Wharton School has over 300 standing professors, the world’s most published and most cited business school faculty, and its 8 student-to-faculty ratio is one of the best among U.S. business schools. 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.
An article in a prestigious academic journal ranked Wharton as a top school for the combination 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. It is known as a popular destination for Rhodes Scholars upon their return from Oxford University.
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.