If your sights set on business school and are you trying to decide which MBA programs to apply to, you best start with understanding your chances of acceptance to top programs. You might be wondering where you’ll likely be accepted and which is the best program you can get into with your profile. To help answer your questions, we’ve put together some fast facts covering key admission factors to help you determine your odds of getting accepted into the Wharton MBA Program.
If you’re wondering how difficult it is to get into Wharton, then you’ve come to the right place. On this page, we’ll give you a quick overview of what it takes to get into the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and help you understand whether your profile is a good fit for the Wharton MBA program.
(Note: This page highlights Wharton’s full-time MBA program. The other program option at Wharton is the Executive MBA Program for Working Professionals.)
| Acceptance Rate | 23% |
| GMAT Average | 728 |
| GPA Average | 3.6 |
| Avg. Years Work Experience | 5 |
Note: As many MBA programs elected not to release acceptance rates for the class of 2025, some of our reported acceptance rates are based on estimates.
The top undergraduate majors represented in Wharton’s MBA program are Humanities (38%), Business (34%), and STEM (28%).
Very! Earning a competitive GMAT or GRE score is critical for admission to top MBA programs (competitive meaning 90th percentile or higher) . That’s partly because a high score reflects your potential to succeed in the classroom—and it’s also because business schools rely on high test scores to maintain their position in the rankings.
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The undergraduate universities most represented in Wharton’s MBA class profile are:
If your undergraduate college is listed above, that means that Wharton has accepted many applicants with your education background in the past. It also shows that candidates who have gone to these schools have considered applying to Wharton, and it is one indication that the business school has found students who have completed their undergraduate education at these universities to be successful.
Wharton’s top pre-MBA industries are consulting (24%), pe/vc (12%), technology (10%), and nonprofit/government (10%).
Looking at the pre-MBA industries shows you whether your profile is well-represented at Wharton. Don’t worry if you don’t see your industry on the list—there might not be many students enrolled from your industry simply because many candidates didn’t apply to the program in the first place. The same goes for the pre-MBA employers data we’ve provided below.
The pre-MBA companies that are most represented in the Wharton MBA class are:
Wharton look for candidates who are innovative, collaborative, globally aware, and a giving, high-impact leader. One of the most important determinants of your success at Wharton is not your test scores or your extracurricular achievements, but who you are as a whole person and an emerging leader.
Interested in finding out more about Wharton? Visit our Wharton overview page.
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Alice van Harten
Founding Partner
Education: BA, PhD
Before co-founding Menlo Coaching, Alice earned her doctorate at Cambridge, lectured at Stanford, and secured a spot at Bain & Company by acing the case interview. Her writing and storytelling skills are well-known throughout the industry, and her holistic approach to mentorship has proved invaluable to candidates from a variety of backgrounds, including investment banking, consulting, tech, and family business.
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