Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania , also known as The Wharton School or Wharton, is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, the Wharton School is the world’s oldest collegiate school of business. Wharton has an acceptance rate of less than 9%, and it only accepts fewer than 5 transfer students annually, making it one of the most selective schools in the world.

Wharton’s MBA program is ranked No. 1 WorldWide according to the Foundation for International Business Education’s MBA Guidebook and No. 3 in the United States according to the 2019 U.S. News & World Report ranking.

According to Poets & Quants, MBA graduates of Wharton earn an average $209,501 first year compensation, the 4th highest. Following Stanford and Northwestern (Kellogg), Wharton’s MBA program has the 3rd highest average GMAT score of 730 (97th percentile) for its entering class. According to another publication, Wharton produces the 3rd most CEOs of the 100 top companies on the Fortune 500 list, behind Northwestern (Kellogg) and Harvard. In general, Wharton has over 95,000 alumni in 153 countries, with notable figures such as Donald Trump, Jeremy Rifkin, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Sundar Pichai, Aditya Mittal, Steven A. Cohen, Jeff Weiner, Anil Ambani, John Sculley, Walter Annenberg, Leonard Lauder, Laurence Tisch, Michael Moritz, Ruth Porat, Kunal Bahl, and William Wrigley Jr. II. Its alumni include the CEOs of Google, Apple, LinkedIn, CBS, General Electric, Boeing, Pfizer, Comcast, Oracle, DHL, UPS, Pepsi, Time, Inc, BlackRock, Johnson & Johnson, UBS AG, Wrigley Company, and Tesco.