Some business schools have roughly the same acceptance rate during all rounds while others see a significant drop off in later rounds. With applications for round 2 due in the next month and your final chance to apply for fall admission will be here before you know it, this analysis may help you decide which schools to focus on and which to avoid. Here is a list of the top 20 schools’ MBA acceptance rates by application round. As usual, the data for this analysis came from GMAT Club, which may be a biased sample. Posters on the site tend to have higher GMAT scores than the general…

Geoffrey Garrett is Dean, Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Wharton School, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He became Dean of the Wharton School in 2014, having been a member of the Wharton faculty in the Management Department from 1995 to 1997. Prior to his return to Penn, Garrett was dean of the business schools at both the University of Sydney and UNSW in his native Australia. He served as President of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles and Dean of the UCLA…

Students spend the first year in Law School and the following summer in Law and Wharton courses designed specifically for the three-year MBA/JD. The second and third years include a combination of Law and Wharton courses, including a capstone course in the third year and work experience in a law firm or corporation during the summer between the second and third years. First Year First Year Summer Second Year Second Year Summer Third Year Law School 4 Wharton/Law courses (exclusive to the three-year program) Wharton: Core Courses: Corporations; Mergers and Acquisitions Internship…

A Wharton MBA is something you do. You fully engage in the challenges of today s global business with analytical, rigorous thinking – and gain the tools to solve the most vital problems facing business today. You learn how to make decisions backed up by data and sound reasoning, considering all the dimensions and stakeholders of a business problem. Our 250+ faculty members are among the most cited and one of the most published in the world, bringing real-world, real-time knowledge to the classroom. With more courses, academic areas, and interdisciplinary programs than at any…

Organized by Knowledge@Wharton High School (KWHS), the Global Young Leaders Academy (GYLA) is an intensive two-week summer program for a select group of international high school students who are currently in 9th to 12th grades. The program introduces students to entrepreneurship and other business concepts, and allows them time to become immersed in the U.S. culture. The two-week experience features Wharton faculty presentations, in-depth learning from high school teachers in the KWHS network, residential activities, field trips, community service, and relationship building…

Geoffrey Garrett is Dean, Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, and Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He became Dean of the Wharton School in 2014, having been a member of the Wharton faculty in the Management Department from 1995 to 1997. Prior to his return to Penn, he was dean of the business schools at both the University of Sydney and UNSW in his native Australia. Thomas S. Robertson, 2007-2014 In his tenure as dean, Thomas S. Robertson championed business as a force for good. He institutionalized three strategic…

Aresty Institute for Executive Education Offers The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader, at Its New San Francisco Campus June 4-7, 2012 PHILADELPHIA — The Aresty Institute for Executive Education at the Wharton School today announced a new program, The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader . Developed to meet the needs of executives transitioning into management roles, the program brings faculty who teach the core content in Wharton’s MBA program to its new San Francisco campus June 4-7, 2012. Wharton Management Professor and Faculty Director of The Leadership…

LBW offers opportunities to learn about leadership in 21st century organizations through a dynamic and rigorous mix of classes with Wharton professors and business leaders, company site visits, and team-building activities. Each summer, LBW students: Attend lectures and presentations from outstanding Wharton faculty and guest speakers. Engage in classroom discussions about core business subjects, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Receive coaching on communication and team-building skills from six upper-level Wharton undergraduates who serve as Resident Team Advisors (RTAs)…

At Wharton, you shape the curriculum to work for you. We give you the opportunity to study arts and sciences, engineering, nursing, communications, education, government administration, law, social policy, and more — all as an undergrad. Follow Your Interests Wharton’s curriculum encourages students to shape their own educations. Our four-year bachelor of science in economics program consists of 37 courses in business and the arts and sciences. In fact, over 30% of the classes you need to graduate must be taken outside of Wharton in Penn’s other 11 schools. We encourage you…

The Wharton School provides the opportunity for a select group of MBA students to spend the fall semester of their second year taking classes in San Francisco. All classes and other activities are held at the Wharton San Francisco campus located at the Hills Brothers Plaza on the Embarcadero. The Semester in San Francisco combines classroom instruction with extracurricular activities and various kinds of engagement with the regional economy to create a cohesive educational experience. The specific course electives offered are selected through a process that begins by soliciting…

To be successful in a changing global economy, managers must view the total enterprise and understand the forces shaping the firm’s direction, policies, and goals and at the same time exercise personal leadership in managing employees. Wharton’s Management Department applies basic social science disciplines and research methods to these management and leadership problems in the public and private sectors. The Management Department encompasses four major areas of specialization: Strategic Management emphasizes forecasting, planning and control, allocating resources, the appraisal…

Freddy ChangFreddy ChangFreddy Chang, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, is happily immersed in the heavy course load required of his dual majors in finance and international studies at the Wharton School. But as much as he s enjoying his second year at the Ivy League school in Philadelphia, he almost gave up his spot in the class of 2019 for financial reasons. I knew that there was no way that my family could fully front the cost of attending a private Ivy League institution,Chang told Business Insider. Chang, who applied early to UPenn in 2014, was initially elated…

Marketing Matters is hosted by Wharton Marketing Professor Barbara Kahn, Director of the Baker Retailing Center and Catharine Hays, Executive Director of the Wharton Future of Advertising Program. Each week, hear Barbara or Catharine joined by one of their impressive revolving panel of co-hosts, made up of members of the largest, most cited, and most published marketing faculty in the world. They’ll discuss marketing and advertising trends, consumer behavior, data and analytics, the latest in retail marketing, brand-building and much more. How are executives addressing the key…