Monday, August 23, 2010

The Wharton Business School-Manufcturing House Of Wisdom!


The Wharton School is highly popular business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton is the first business school in the United States. It was founded in 1881 bythe support of Joseph Wharton and is considered to be one of the world's best business schools.


Wharton grants B.S. and MBA degrees, offers a Ph.D. program,With several diploma programs. With the most electives of any business school. Wharton's MBA program offers in accounting, business and public policy, entrepreneurial management, environmental management, finance, health care systems, human resource and organizational management, insurance and risk management, legal studies and business ethics, management, marketing, multinational management, operations and information management, real estate, retailing, statistics and strategic management.

The financial press has ranked Wharton as one of the world's top institutions for business education.It has been ranked the best business school in the world by the Financial Times in every year in which the newspaper has ranked business schools until 2010.

This school has 278 faculty members, and also has 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The school's faculty are the world’s essence in business schools
Academy of Management Journal ranked Wharton as the top institution in pursuit of scholarly achievements and excellence in teaching.
The Chronicle ranked Wharton's Marketing and Management departments as the first and second in the world for research productivity, respectively.

It is but natural admissions process at Wharton is highly selective; it is one of the most competitive business schools in the United States.

A high GPA, high GMAT score, and very strong non-quantitative credentials are considered as prerequisites to admission.
The school publishes an on-line journal, Knowledge@Wharton, that is "the envy of every other school" according to The Economist.

Wharton started a publishing house Wharton School Publishing. Wharton maintains the world's largest financial, economics, management, marketing, and public policy data warehouses accessible through state-of-the-art web-based data management services, called WRDS.

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