Since 1985, the Wharton School has offered a real estate major for MBA students, training future leaders for the challenges and opportunities of the real estate industry.
Since 1985, the Wharton School has offered a real estate major for MBA students, training future leaders for the challenges and opportunities of the real estate industry. Over the course of its 35-year history, the real estate MBA major has provided students with the quantitative and qualitative tools necessary to shape the future of the industry, with courses such as Investments, Development and Real Estate Law.
While Wharton MBA real estate students learn business fundamentals and gain the breadth of depth of knowledge in real estate in the classroom, they also put their knowledge to work outside of the classroom in industry-focused clubs and conferences. The Wharton Real Estate Club hosts speaker series and professional training sessions in Argus and in financial modeling.
Wharton real estate MBA students benefit from the opportunity to learn from accomplished researchers and industry professionals through the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Center for Real Estate. Established in 1983, the Zell/Lurie Center sponsors conferences, seminars and programs which bring leaders of industry to real estate MBA students, faculty, and business professionals.
Penn dates its founding to 1740, when a plan emerged to build a Philadelphia charity school that would double as a house of worship. After construction was underway, however, the cost was seen to be much greater than the available resources, and the project went unfinished for a decade.
In 1749, Benjamin Franklin—printer, inventor, and future founding father of the United States—published his famous essay, “Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth,” circulated it among Philadelphia’s leading citizens, and organized 24 trustees to form an institution of higher education based on his proposals. The group purchased the building and in 1751, opened its doors to children of the gentry and working class alike as the Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania. Franklin served as president of the institution until 1755 and continued to serve as a trustee until his death in 1790.
Franklin’s educational aims, to train young people for leadership in business, government, and public service, were innovative for the time. In the 1750s, the other Colonial American colleges educated young men for the Christian ministry, but Franklin’s proposed program of study was much more like the modern liberal arts curriculum. His fellow trustees were unwilling to implement most of his then-radical ideas though, and Penn’s first provost, William Smith, turned the curriculum back to traditional channels soon after taking the helm from Franklin.
In addition to challenging the educational conventions of the day, Franklin pushed boundaries that moved science and society forward and helped shape America’s very nationhood. He was a member of the Second Continental Congress, a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, and played a pivotal role in recruiting French aid for the Americans during the Revolutionary War. Franklin later signed the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the conflict with the British Empire.
His broad knowledge spanned multiple disciplines, and far from regarding it as an end in itself, he saw knowledge as an asset that required practical application to be of value. His many essential inventions range from bifocals and the lightning rod to the iron furnace stove and odometer.
Beyond that, the civic institutions that Franklin helped launch include the country’s first subscription library (1731) and first hospital (1751), in addition to what would become America’s first university, the University of Pennsylvania, in 1749.
In the years that followed, Penn went on to obtain a collegiate charter (1755), graduate its first class (1757), establish the first medical school in the American colonies (1765) and become the first American institution of higher education to be named a university (1779). In 1802, the University expanded to another campus, but by the 1860s had outgrown even that space, so in 1872 the trustees built a new campus in the street-car suburb of West Philadelphia.
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