世界顶级商学院概览——University of Pennsylvania (Wharton商学院)之旅

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The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School is the world's oldest business school and is consistently ranked among the best. The undergraduate program, developed in 1881 in order to prepare young men to assume control of the economy, offered the first collegiate degree in business. Since then, the school has added a full-time MBA, PhD degree, and even a two-year executive MBA with a second campus, in San Francisco.

Entry into one of the world's best B-schools isn't easy, and it doesn't come cheap. At almost $50,000 per year, the MBA program is one of the most costly—but the robust salary increase Wharton grads receive make the investment worth it to most. Wharton's strongest reputation is in finance and consulting, and students consistently attract the world's best business employers. And in an MBA class of just over 2,000, recruiters have the cream of the Wharton crop to choose from.

Photos provided by the University of Pennsylvania. Caption information provided by the school and BusinessWeek research.

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Pre-Penn Life
A short summer awaits new MBA admits into Wharton, but the monthlong pre-term session offers welcome refresher courses and an opportunity to bond with fellow first-years. In addition to brush-up classes on accounting, microfinance, and other business basics, students are organized into "learning teams," groups of six that meet for the entire first year of B-school. Two days of the pre-term program are dedicated to a learning team retreat, when students escape to distraction-free upstate New York to bond as a team.

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Teamwork
Wharton's strong push for teamwork manifests itself far beyond orientation. Each learning team is matched with a Leadership Fellow—a second-year MBA student involved in mentoring the team, debriefing the group, and resolving conflict. At the end of the first year, students bring the experiences they've had in their learning teams into the classroom, where they take a core course in team building and team leadership.

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Thinking Globally
Wharton's international emphasis begins at the admissions office; 44% of full-time MBAs come from outside of the U.S. Upon converging in Philadelphia, the global mélange is maintained by a variety of international opportunities. Wharton has partnerships with 14 business schools around the world in an exchange program where Wharton MBAs can study for a semester. Several academic offerings have an international component, including the for-credit Wharton Global Immersion Program that attracts about 100 first-year students a year to meet and learn from top business executives in a new region of the world each year. For students who are looking forward to a future beyond the borders of the U.S., the school offers global career treks organized by students and MBA Career Services. The Asian career trek, pictured here, is one of many to global destinations, including those to Europe and South America.

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Fellow MBAs
Graduates speak well of Wharton and just as highly of their classmates—which is no surprise, considering the caliber of Wharton students. Says one MBA entrepreneurship grad in a BusinessWeek survey, "Wharton's strength is the extraordinary collective capabilities and experiences of its students. The most valuable learnings take place not in the classroom but instead through interactions with peers."

With a 16% acceptance rate for a full-time MBA class of just over 1,600, students sweat their way into Wharton. The average student is 28 years old and has worked for six years.

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Classroom Life
Wharton stands out among B-schools for its customized approach to teaching. MBA students choose a single or double major from 19 possible areas of concentration. With over 170 elective courses available, the school offers courses to satisfy nearly every interest.

Core courses average 54 students each, while the typical elective has 39. One-third of teaching at Wharton is through case studies, while team projects account for 25% of the program and lectures for another 20%.

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Faculty
Spread among 11 academic departments, a world-class faculty awaits MBA students at Wharton. An impressive 424 faculty are employed by the school; almost 100 come from abroad to teach, and one third have PhDs. Wharton capitalizes on the strengths of its faculty by supporting more than 25 research centers that draw on the expertise of professors, students, and executives. Shown here is Eric Bradlow, professor of marketing, statistics, and education. He's also the co-director of the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative, which conducts research on digital media.

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Experiential Leadership
Leadership resources abound at Wharton. Wharton Leadership Ventures is a series of intense outdoor challenges across different national and international terrain; mountaineering in Ecuador, combat training in the U.S. Marine Corps, and expeditions in Antarctica (shown above), have been offered in the past. The courses are designed to urge quick action and strategic decision making in stressful environments.

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Academic Diversions
Wharton students can pledge membership to any of over 110 MBA student clubs. The vast number of active student clubs allows MBAs to share interests well beyond the usual offerings. At the annual club expo, pictured here, the consulting club booth may be within steps of the booth for Pets at Wharton (PAWs), a society that sponsors pet-friendly happy hours and get-togethers in the park.

Professionally, there are groups from travel and hospitality to biotech; socially, students join clubs that specialize in anything from jazz to scotch, from chocolate to photography. A favorite among students and faculty is the Wharton Follies, an MBA comedy group famed for its musical cabarets and rendition of "A Midsemester Night's Dream".

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City of Brotherly Love
Philadelphia is more than just cheese steaks. To Wharton students, it's a major city—and a considerable business resource. Philadelphia is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Comcast, Cigna, and Sunoco. If students need to visit the U.S. epicenter for business headquarters, neighboring New York is only a two-hour drive away.