The Wharton School
The world’s biggest questions require innovative solutions. More than ever, the Wharton School is positioned to meet these emerging challenges head-on, setting its sights both broader and higher. Extraordinary campaign gifts have bolstered the people, research, education, and spaces that spark great ideas and bring them to global scale. New resources are also helping Wharton incubate entrepreneurship at Penn, power insights, and attract and support ambitious students and faculty luminaries who are transforming business as we know it.
26,379
Donors
$1.07
Billion Raised
Highlighted Accomplishments
Transformed Wharton’s campus by investing in new buildings and critical upgrades that improve collaboration, enhance entrepreneurship and analytics, and support learning and research outcomes across disciplines, including Tangen Hall, the Academic Research Building, Mack Pavilion, Vance Hall, the Lauder Institute, and Larry Robbins House.
Created Analytics at Wharton, encompassing a major in business analytics, more than 30 courses focusing on big data, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary initiatives designed to train the next generation of business innovators.
Fueled innovation in finance—one of Wharton’s core strengths—through curricular innovation, investments in preeminent faculty and exceptional students, and new resources like the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance, the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, and the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance, which solidify Wharton as the standard-bearer in finance education.
Powered entrepreneurship by elevating Venture Lab, which provides students across Penn with remarkable cross-disciplinary resources for each stage of the startup life cycle.
Enhanced educational access and opportunity for undergraduate and MBA students through scholarship and fellowship funding that allows Wharton to attract and support the best students from every background.
“The More Than Ever Campaign has set the stage for Wharton’s future: informing decisions through analytics, empowering entrepreneurs to launch and scale startups, and shaping the future of financial innovation. The next generation of students will be better able to access and optimize their Wharton education, while faculty deepen global understanding through their scholarship and teaching. Wharton alumni and friends are moving the School forward in the best possible way through their generosity in this campaign.”