Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded:
1881
Institution:
Four Year
Business program:
Four Year
Degrees offered:
Degree/Program Name:
Bachelor of Science in Economics作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:18
PROGRAM COSTS
Annual Tuition (Resident):
$ 34,868
Annual Tuition (Non-Resident)
$ 34,868
Required fees
$ 4,102
Room and board:
$ 11,016
Books:
$ 1,090作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:18
ENROLLMENT
Total college enrollment for 2009-10:
19,311
Full-time undergraduate business student enrollment:
2,560作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:19
ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution
Required standardized tests for entire college:
SAT Reasoning Test & 2 SAT Subject Tests
OR ACT with Writing
Minimum SAT score for entire college on 1600 scale:
n/a
Minimum ACT score for entire college:
n/a
Minimum high school GPA for entire college:
n/a
Interviews for entire college:
Not required
Additional application requirements for entire college:
TOEFL exam required for non-English speaking students; application form, letters of recommendation, transcripts and essays are required.
Upcoming application deadlines for entire college:
Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students in previous academic year:
$ 17,736,113
Institutional scholarship money to be distributed to undergraduate business students in current academic year:
$ 20,677,013
Scholarships awarded to students in the business program based on:
Financial need
Other scholarship considerations:
N/A
Undergraduate business students receiving institutional scholarships for 2009-10 academic year:
39 %
Undergraduate business students with full-tuition scholarships 2009-10:
10 %
Scholarship consideration process:
As part of the admissions application
School offers guaranteed loans:
No作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:22
PROGRAM BASICS
Institutional freshman retention rate:
99 %
Business students who graduate within four years:
92 %
Business students who graduate within 6 years:
97 %作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:22
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:
Degree: BS
Hours: 148
Other degree requirements:
Students are required to take both business and arts & sciences classes. More information can be found at http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/academics/academics.cfm作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:23
ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
38
Average class size in business electives:
31
Class size:
Classes with fewer than 20 students: 40 %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 43 %
Classes with more than 50 students: 17 %作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:23
CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
107
Electives added in current academic year:
Social Impact & Responsibility
Strategies for Economic Inclusion
Strategic Brand Management
Mathematical Statistics
Bioinformatics
Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2007
Leading areas of study:
Finance
General Management
Marketing
Operations Management
Other
International Studies作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:23
Special programs for business students:
Wharton students can take classes in any of Penn's undergraduate schools and in eight of Penn's graduate schools. They have access to international trips, dual degree options, and diverse minors. Students take both business and liberal arts classes. Find out more here: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/undergrad/
Business program offers work study or co-op opportunities:
Yes
Work study opportunities description:
Opportunities are available on and off campus, many of which focus on service to the community.
Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes
Study abroad program description:
Students have access to study abroad opportunities with 20+ Wharton partner organizations, and Penn has partnerships with more than 100 programs across the globe. Find out more at: http://sa.oip.upenn.edu
Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes
Volunteer opportunities description:
Many students get involved in community service projects through their clubs/organizations or social and business fraternities; Wharton students take advantage of the Civic House, the community service resource center on campus and its many student-led organizations. In addition, the Social Impact Consulting Group and the Penn International Business Volunteers are two undergraduate Wharton clubs that sponsor community service and volunteer work in the greater Philadelphia community and the world, respectively. More information can be found on our Social Impact site: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/social/social-impact.cfm作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:24
Business clubs and extracurricular activities:
Wharton Undergraduate Cohorts
Wharton Women
Black Wharton
Wharton Latino
Undergraduate Financial Club
Undergraduate Sports Business Club作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:24
CAMPUS LIFE
Largest on-campus organizations for business students:
Wharton Women
Black Wharton
Wharton Latino
Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club
Wharton Undergraduate Management Club
Freshmen are required to live on campus:
Yes
Business students are grouped in learning communities:
No作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:25
FACULTY
Faculty:
Full-time faculty : 236
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 204
Permanent/tenured professors: 143
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 13
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 4
Prominent faculty:
Jeremy Siegel
Mauro Guillen
Olivia Mitchell作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:25
COMMENTS
Wharton is committed to fostering a strong community of scholars through a four year integration of business and liberal arts coursework, hands on learning and related club activities. To help students transition into college experience, we ask incoming freshmen to complete PennSTART (Successful Transition and Resilience Training), a confidential online program designed to help students efficiently and effectively manage life's many challenges. Skills taught through the online training are reinforced through our gateway freshman class Management 100. This will be our second year running the program, building on positive feedback from its launch作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:25
B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total living alumni:
35,954
Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
22 %
Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$ 0
Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$ 0
Single donation in excess of $10 million in 2008-09?
No
Prominent alumni:
Name: Michael Nutter
Title: Mayor, City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Name: Gary G. Gensler
Title: Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Corporation
Name: Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Title: Executive Chairman of the Board, Huntsman Corporation作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:26
CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
86 %
Seeking full-time employment in business: 93 %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 7 %
Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
382
Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
2,265
Career services provided for business majors:
Individual career counseling, resume/cover letter/essay critiques, mock interviews, job search workshops, career panels, career discovery seminar, online job/internship listings, internship consortium listings, career library (including online subscriptions to resources), graduate school advising, alumni networking database, social media (Career Services Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blog Resources) on-campus recruiting (including video interviewing facilities), multiple on and off-campus career fairs, employer site visits, extensive webpage resources, externship program, life-long career services for alumni.
Job offer results, 2009 graduates:
Received first job offer by graduation: 83 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 7 %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 1 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 10 %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 83 %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 6 %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 1 %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 11 %作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:26
Top hiring firms:
Credit Suisse Group
Citigroup Inc.
Bank of America Corp.
Goldman Sachs Group
Barclays Bank PLC
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Boston Consulting Group
Morgan Stanley
Deutsche Bank AG
American Express
Bain & Company
Microsoft
McKinsey & Company
UBS
Ernst & Young
Other Hiring Firms:
Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin
Evercore Partners
The Blackstone Group
Lazard
ZL Technologies
Accenture
BlackRock
Moelis & Co.
Rosetta
Capital One
Cornerstone Research
Deloitte Consulting
Jefferies and Company
Macy's/Bloomingdale's
PricewaterhouseCoopers作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:26
Graduate compensation:
Mean base salary: $ 59,852
Median base salary: $ 60,000
Mean signing bonus: $ 8,796
Median signing bonus: $ 10,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $ 0
Median other guaranteed compensation: $ 0
Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:
INTERNSHIPS
Number of companies recruiting interns on-campus, 2008-09 academic year:
107
Companies posting internships on job boards, previous academic year:
1008
Top internship recruiters, 2008-09:
Goldman Sachs Group
Credit Suisse Group
Barclays Bank PLC
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Citigroup Inc.
Morgan Stanley
UBS
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
Bain & Company
Bank of America Corp.
Google Inc.
HSBC
Deutsche Bank AG
Wells Fargo
Other Internship Recruiters:
Jefferies 6 The Blackstone Group 5 University of Pennsylvania 5 Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin 4 Lazard 3 The Boston Consulting Group 3 Electronic Arts 2 Financo, Inc. 2 Habitat for Humanity 2 IBM 2 Ivy Insiders 2 Macy's 2 MD Witter 2 Moelis & Co. 2 Royal Bank of Scotland 2
Percentage of internships that were paid, previous academic year
92 %
Mean internship compensation per week:
$ 993
Median internship compensation per week:
$ 1,000
Average internship, in weeks:
10作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:29
I have loved my time at Wharton. While there is definitely a heightened sense of competition, especially during recruiting, I have found my classmates to be generally good, extremely qualified people. I have learned a lot about business but even more about working together with people and managing situations. I feel that it has prepared me well for my career in the workforce.
I would say that Wharton's strengths are in its focus on team experience (through course projects and extracurriculars) and on diversity (the university as a whole is very international). The Wharton undergraduate degree also offers a lot of breadth in that you get a taste of many different areas of business and also in the arts, humanities and sciences through non-Wharton classes. It makes for a well-rounded experience.
Very little support for those of us not entering the finance or consulting fields. I want to enter the auto industry and have had virtually no help.作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:30
I feel that coming out of Wharton I am an extremely competitive candidate for the job market and I am not worried about internship/job. The reputation speaks for itself and has really helped me in my job hunt.
Competition....the pressure cooker that is Wharton is unparalleled in its ability to compel students to perform at higher levels.
The professors feel the need to curve too much. When the average on a test is a 99/100 and that becomes a B-/C+, there is a problem. Students (especially international ones) are cutthroat competitive to the point where some will scowl at you for lending a student a pencil or calculator when they forgot one for a test. This attitude is completely supported by the university. This makes it difficult to compete with students at other schools. Wharton grads are compared to other Ivy League students and other Business Students. Other Ivies don't have the curve Wharton does.作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:30
I feel as though Wharton is unique (beyond just its academics and faculty) because of its student groups and the events they sponsor on campus. Whether it is the Wharton name or simply our proximity to NYC, I find that the student groups always manage to pump out numerous sponsored networking events- not just internship fairs and dinners with firm representatives, but also educational panels, speakers events, and interview or other career-related workshops with alumni or recruiters.
I feel that although Wharton provides you with a comprehensive business knowledge, it leaves little room to explore you other interests outside of the business school, especially if a student struggles with the business classes and can't take additional courses in other areas that are not required. Wharton is great for people who are really sure that they want to work in the business after graduation, but is not a great place to explore other possible fields.
It whips you into shape for the real world by virtue of: the rigor of the coursework, the caliber of my classmates, and the demands of my extracurriculars. I know now how to work hard and how to be professional, in all senses.作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:30
Wharton is renowned for its finance programs, but I was unexpectedly impressed by its statistics, entrepreneurial and operations (game theory, optimization, programming, systems engineering) coursework. The network and preparation are really unrivaled, as even my friends from other top programs have told me. That said, there is often an us-vs-them attitude about students at other business schools, that can get annoying.
MGMT 100 is an introductory course unique to Wharton that really cultivates teamwork and leadership skills. Along those lines, the emphasis on real-life skills combined with a high caliber of academic quality makes the Wharton experience truly unique.
The emphasis on team work and leadership skills here is excellent. Every class has some sort of group activity so you get to network with other people as well as develop team work skills. This really makes me feel ready for the workforce.作者: s 时间: 2010-8-13 21:31
What I felt that the program most lacked was guidance. I think the school could be very well served by adopting a mentorship program between seniors and freshmen and sophomores. I transferred into Wharton after my freshman year, and I always felt like I wasn't in-the-know about what classes to take or what groups to get involved with on campus. Having a senior who was familiar with the system to turn to for advice would have been very helpful.
I appreciated the ability to take courses outside of my major. In particular, I was able to pursue a dual degree in engineering through the "Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology", which would have been very difficult to complete in 4 years at any other school.作者: Bala 时间: 2010-8-13 22:27
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