The Wharton School - world’s first collegiate business school

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1881 by industrialist Joseph Wharton and is widely recognized as the world’s first collegiate business school. It established formal degree programs in business education and has been influential in professionalizing commercial and financial training in the United States. Wharton continues to offer undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral programs and remains a prominent global business school.