MBA Finance at University of Pennsylvania

Programme overview

The Finance major provides students with the analytic and theoretical tools required to master practical issues in Finance, with applications to financial management in business firms, financial institutions, government, and not-for-profit entities. While some attention is given to the descriptive, institutional, and historical aspects of the field, primary emphasis is placed on the analytical foundations of the discipline, emphasizing theory and methods of analysis and making extensive use of relevant techniques of economic analysis, mathematics, and statistics.

Faculty: Wharton School | Duration: 19 course units | Study mode: full-time | Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 19 course units in total. Listed required courses include FNCE 6110 Corporate Finance; ACCT 6110 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting; FNCE 6130 Macroeconomics and the Global Economic Environment; LGST 6110 Responsibility in Global Management; LGST 6120 Responsibility in Business or; BEPP 6110 Microeconomics for Managers: Foundations.

Career pathways

Graduates have begun their professional careers with positions in financial divisions of non-financial firms, investment banks, broker-dealers, asset management firms, and management consulting firms, as well as various departments of commercial banks and other financial intermediaries, not-for-profit entities, central banks, and international financial organizations.

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Entry requirements

Second Year Requirement: Students must satisfy the following requirements during their second year in the program: (1) maintain a Wharton GPA that is greater than 2.33 in each semester of their second year, and (2) have no more than 4 CU of Wharton courses with a grade less than or equal to 2.33 (C+ or lower) in their second year.

USD 87,970 a year (2026-27). Wharton MBA tuition for 2026-2027 for full-time attendance at the Wharton School; one MBA tuition rate applies across majors. Excludes General Fee ($4,268), Clinical Fee ($770), housing, food, books and health insurance. Source

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