Wharton School
Wharton School | |
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motto |
Knowledge for Action (Knowledge for Enterprise) |
founding | 1881, the world's first business school |
Sponsorship | Private |
place | Philadelphia , United States |
dean | Geoffrey Garrett |
Website | www.wharton.upenn.edu |
The Wharton School (formally also called The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania , colloquially also called Wharton Business School, The Wharton School or simply Wharton ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania , USA . It was founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton as the world's first university business school. The Wharton School is a member of the Ivy League , a group of elite universities in the USA and is ranked among the most renowned business schools in the world. Wharton Business School is considered to be the educational institute that produced the most billionaires in the United States.
Locations
The Wharton School currently has two training centers, one in Philadelphia and one in San Francisco . It also maintains extensive cooperation with the international business school INSEAD , which is based in Fontainebleau ( France ) and Singapore .
Rankings
To this day, Wharton School is regarded as one of the leading business schools in the world and is known for its academic and practical strengths in all subject areas. In the rankings of leading international business schools for MBA courses, the Wharton School regularly occupies one of the top places. Since 2000, Wharton has been ranked 10 times in the Financial Times Global Business School Rankings, making it number one of all business schools worldwide.
In the 2013 Webometrics Ranking Web of Business Schools, Wharton School achieved first place worldwide, with Copenhagen Business School ranked 2nd and Harvard Business School ranked 3rd.
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
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FT - Global MBA | 4th | 3 | 4th | 3 | 3 |
FT - MBA for WOMEN | - | - | - | - | 9 |
The Economist - Global MBA | 11 | 10 | 12 | 4th | 4th |
FT - Executive Education - Open | 19th | 23 | 17th | 14th | 12 |
FT - Executive Education - Custom | 26th | 47 | 39 | 40 | 24 |
Course offer
Wharton School currently offers programs focused on accounting and finance, public administration, finance, healthcare, insurance and risk management, law, corporate governance, marketing, operations and information management, real estate, statistics, and transportation.
In addition to four-year undergraduate programs leading to a bachelor's degree, the range of courses also includes two-year programs leading to a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and doctoral programs . Furthermore, further training courses are offered for managers without an academic degree. The school also offers a double degree with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Harvard Kennedy School .
Study numbers
Approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA and PhD students and approximately 8,000 participants in executive education programs are currently studying. There are around 81,000 alumni in 146 countries worldwide. Tuition fees per year are approximately $ 65,000.
Former students and faculty
- Sundar Pichai , Indian manager and CEO of Google Inc.
- Warren Buffett , founder of the investment firm Berkshire Hathaway and thus the third richest American
- Jacob Wallenberg , Swedish industrialist
- Elon Musk , founder of Tesla, Inc. and PayPal
- Donny Deutsch , founder of the advertising agency Deutsch Inc.
- Paul E. Green , Wharton School Emeritus Professor of Marketing and a leading researcher in conjoint analysis
- Jon Huntsman senior , industrialist (founder of Huntsman Chemicals)
- Adriano B. Lucatelli , Swiss manager and entrepreneur
- Gerard Kleisterlee , Chairman of the Vodafone Group and former CEO of Philips
- Peter Lynch , former Magellan Fund mutual fund manager and advisor to Fidelity Investments
- Howard Marks, founder of the investment company Oaktree
- Cenk Uygur , co-founder and main presenter of the web-based news talk show The Young Turks
- Michael Milken , financier and investment banker
- Juri Milner , internet investor
- Philip D. Murphy , investment banker and politician
- Mark Pincus , Entrepreneur ( Zynga )
- Lew Platt , former CEO of the Hewlett-Packard Company and director of the Boeing Company
- Henning Schulte-Noelle , German insurance manager (CEO of Allianz AG 1991–2003)
- John Sculley , American executive, former vice president of Pepsi-Cola and from 1983 to 1993 president and CEO of Apple Computer Inc.
- David Sklansky , bestselling author and poker player
- Donald Trump , real estate entrepreneur and 45th President of the United States
- Klaus Zumwinkel , Former CEO of Deutsche Post AG
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Dean's Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , Principal Dissident of Wall Street, bestselling author: Fools of Chance , The Black Swan and others, mathematician for: fractal randomness , uncertainty , probability
- Hoodie Allen , musician
Publications
- George S. Day and David J. Reibstein (eds. :) Wharton on dynamic competitive strategy, Econ Verlag , Düsseldorf and Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-430-17669-9 (title of the American original edition: Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York 1994, ISBN 978-0-471-68957-7 )
Web links
- Wharton website
- FT Global Business School Rankings 2002
- FT Global Business School Rankings 2004
- FT Global Business School Rankings 2006
- FT Global Business School Rankings 2008
- FT Global Business School Rankings 2011
- Fortune 2014 Bachelor Business Program Rankings
- US News 2015 Bachelor Business Program Rankings
- US News 2017 Bachelor Business Program Rankings
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katja Gelinsky: Wharton Business School: Management forge for the elite of tomorrow . In: FAZ.NET . May 28, 2008, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 14, 2018]).
- ^ Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com. Accessed March 14, 2018 (English).
- ^ These schools produced the most billionaires . CNBC.
- ↑ Here's Why UPenn Produces More Billionaires Than Any Other School In The World . Business Insider.
- ^ The 10 Schools That Produce The Most Forbes 400 Billionaires . FORBES.
- ^ Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com. Accessed March 14, 2018 (English).
- ↑ http://business-schools.webometrics.info/en/Europe and http://business-schools.webometrics.info/en/North_america
- ^ Financial Times, Global MBA Ranking
- ^ The Economist MBA Rankings
Coordinates: 39 ° 57 '10 " N , 75 ° 11' 49" W.