Company Profile
University of Pennsylvania
Company Overview
Facts-at-a-glance:
• World’s first collegiate business school, established in 1881
• Largest and one of the most published business school faculty, with 225+ standing and associate members.
• 10 academic departments
• 20 research centers and initiatives
• 94,000 alumni in 153 countries around the world
• 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students
• Nearly 9,200 annual participants in executive education programs
• State-of-the-art academic facilities in Philadelphia and San Francisco
• Leading technology for research and learning
Company History
Wharton History
In 1881, American entrepreneur and industrialist Joseph Wharton established the world’s first collegiate school of business at the University of Pennsylvania. Joseph Wharton’s pioneering vision for the School was to produce graduates who would become “pillars of the state, whether in private or in public life.” The Wharton School maintains a long tradition of educating visionary business leaders in academe, business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Today, Wharton has expanded the scope of this vision to become the most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world — with 225+ faculty members, 94,000 alumni, 5,000 students in academic programs, and more than 9,000 executive education participants annually.