The Wharton School
Higher EducationPennsylvania, United States5001-10000 Employees
The Wharton School, founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, is a longstanding higher education institution affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. Based in Philadelphia, it pursues the development of well-rounded leaders who can advance societal progress, guided by a framework that emphasizes research impact, innovative pedagogy, and collaboration across disciplines. It supports a sizeable academic community, with a standing faculty of 241 and more than 5,000 students across undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral programs. The school also engages professionals through Wharton Executive Education, serving over 13,000 participants annually, and through Wharton Online which has issued more than 200,000 certificates since 2015. The alumni network comprises more than 104,000 Wharton graduates worldwide. In 2025, the school launched MyWharton, a Pathify-powered platform, for the Fall 2025 semester.