Program Basics

• • Wharton MBA for Executives-Philadelphia & San Francisco
  • Wharton School
  • Jon M. Huntsman Hall Suite G21
  • 3730 Walnut Street
  • Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania
  • United States
  • Status:
    • Private
  • Length of program (months): 24

• Classes meet:

  • • Alternate weekends

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $170,550.00
  • Non Resident: $170,550.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

  • • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 2,302
  • Full-Time MBA: 1,717
  • Executive MBA: 407
  • PhD Program: 178
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,557

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? No
  • GMAT Required? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 25th Percentile 640
  • 50th Percentile (median) 690
  • 10th Percentile 570
  • 75th Percentile 720
  • 90th Percentile 740

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 25th Percentile 670
  • 50th Percentile (median) 710
  • 10th Percentile 630
  • Average GMAT Score 700
  • 75th Percentile 720
  • 90th Percentile 750
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
  • Application fee: $180.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 511
  • Applicants accepted: 44 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 87 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 33
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 8
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 100 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 24 %
  • International: 31 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 1 %
  • Asia: 22 %
  • Europe: 3 %
  • North America: 72 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %

• Entering U.S. citizens are from the following regions:

  • West: 41 %
  • Midwest: 1 %
  • Southwest: 4 %
  • South: 3 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 24 %
  • Northeast: 27 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

• U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

  • African American: 3 %
  • Asian American: 29 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 1 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 3 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 61 %
  • Chose not to report: 3 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Average months of work experience: 120

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 72
  • To: 192
• • Average age: 34

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 29
  • To: 40

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 40 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 3 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 43 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $186,988.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $95,000.00
  • High: $325,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 12 %
  • Finance/Accounting 24 %
  • General Management : 6 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 4 %
  • Management Information Systems : 8 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 7 %
  • Other: 39 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 9 %
  • Consumer Products: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 21 %
  • Government: 6 %
  • Manufacturing: 2 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 2 %
  • Non-Profit: 3 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 14 %
  • Real Estate: 2 %
  • Technology: 18 %
  • Other: 17 %

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 72 %
  • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Neither
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 0
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? Yes

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 478

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 155
  • Non-Tenured: 108

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 215

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 25
  • Non-Tenured: 94

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 17
  • Non-Tenured: 32

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 43
  • Non-Tenured: 60

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 155
  • Non-Tenured: 323

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: 1 week international seminar. Destination voted on by class.
  • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
  • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
  • Description: Business conference center and nearby high end hotel.
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 11

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 52
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 22
  • Elective courses: 35

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week in class: 12
  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2011
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
  • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/ME (Engineering), MBA/MD (Medicine), Other, MBA/MSN (Nursing), MBA/PhD, MBA/MA (Arts), MBA/March (Architecture)
  • Leading areas of study: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Operations Management, Statistics and Operations Research

• Graduation Requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades
    • Other
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2011

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Wharton's connected learning technologies encompass a number of school-wide initiatives, including an iPad deployment across all first and second year Executive MBA classes, the development of all digital HD classrooms to enhance in classroom collaboration, an online community enabling connections between students and alumni along personal and professional interests, a Lifelong Learning platform, push button recording of classes for online viewing, and several large scale intensive simulations.
  • Amount spent: $17,500,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 40,656
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 80
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 43
  • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • University alumni networking site: http://www.alumniconnections.com/penn/
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.whartonconnect.com
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do EMBAs have access to career services? Yes
  • Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs? Yes
  • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: Only students who are NOT financially sponsored by their employer may use job search.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • Additional school comments: We offer the full Wharton MBA in an executive format and it is available in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Wharton professors fly to San Francisco to teach.

• • -The EMBA program at Wharton, San Francisco is rigorous and perhaps the best when it comes to educating the students. But education is not an end in itself. Unless the program gets bolstered by an active career management office, it will lose some of its appeal to the local Silicon Valley crowd who see the students from other local EMBA programs placed better in local firms.
    
    -Professors could communicate better on content covered in their classes. Often times, especially in finance classes, the same concepts were taught that we previously learned in another finance class. I understand that some review is necessary but perhaps a little less time on concepts previously taught.
    
    -The caliber of students in the Wharton program is phenomenal. They did a fantastic job of screening to obtain truly brilliant people who are still very capable of communicating and leading.
    
    -A pre-calculus class should be made mandatory for students without a mathematical background. The math camp offered during the boot camp week simply isn't enough. Many classes went into derivatives and log functions that we have not seen since high school.
    
    -I can't say enough good things about Wharton. The program was extremely rigorous--to complete the same curriculum as full-time students while working full-time. The school does a good job explaining this, but many people still have misperceptions that the EMBA program is easier or has fewer requirements.
    
    -Not sure how to accomplish this but more convenient office hours from professors (perhaps Friday evening) would have been helpful for students that needed extra help. The executive program schedule is so tight that office hours any other time is near impossible. Professors, however, were always available via phone or email. The faculty, academic rigor, in-person experience and curriculum is exactly the same as that of our full-time counterparts. The degree is the same - an MBA. This was important to me in selecting Wharton over other EMBA programs, which are more like "MBA-lite." However, the school needs to do a better job of connecting us to the campus and other faculty back east.
    
    -Generally, I am grateful that we covered a lot of material. In many classes, however, I felt it would have been worthwhile to prioritize topics and possibly to have skipped a few in order to have spent more time and to have gone in-depth on issues, topics, and analysis that were most relevant in today's business world. Also, since class time is precious and limited, I would have preferred for more professors to have used their last session to teach material and to have given a take home final exam.
    
    -The quality of the Wharton Executive MBA is excellent. The staff, professors and student are all top-notch. Wharton does a superb job of putting together a rigorous program and accepting a diverse set of students that thoroughly enrich the learning experience. Attending Wharton was one of the best decisions I have made!
    
    -The school needs to up the game on career development and technology industry outreach. I didn't need to pay $165,000 to have the world's best finance education and still see no doors opened at local Silicon Valley companies or get asked if Wharton's EMBA program is an online one. The career management services should definitely work on getting internships at the EMBA level of experience. The marketing curriculum needs to increase its focus on the technology sector.
    
    -It was an amazing experience for someone in middle management planning on rapidly advancing during and following the program. It may not be as fulfilling an experience for someone with minimal work experience as the discussions are some of the more useful parts of the program.
    
    -There should be more consistent presentation of courses from class to class. Some have heavy use of electronic media and others don't. This addresses each professor’s style but does create some challenge for the student- especially for those with busy professions and traveling.
    
    -The executive MBA program should definitely lay more emphasis on the "touchy-feely" components of management training. Unlike 25-year olds getting ready to be cogs in Wall Street and McKinsey, the typical EMBA student can hardly choose to ignore courses like "Management of People at Work". I wish there were more classes on strategic human asset management and ethics. The classroom experience would have improved if the human impact of every hard-nosed decision were brought up more often.
    
    -Everything about the experience (excepting academics) was completely handled - a totally "valet" experience - so that we could focus on learning and spending time getting to know classmates.