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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Penn is pretty middling top school outside of its crown jewel Wharton [/quote]

It’s not even worth it for Wharton

Wharton just launched a full time online mba and charges 200k for it

It’s an obvious cash grab that dilutes the brand

By doing this, Penn is signaling that the Wharton brand is becoming devalued and downscale!

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Wharton undergrad alum - and wow did not realize there was a full online MBA. That's ridiculous.

FWIW they've been diluting Wharton's brand for years, as they try to let other schools take advantage of/free ride on the Wharton brand. Some years ago the Law School created some Public Policy Certificate to be done at/alongside Wharton. It legit includes 0 finance, let alone any hard finance - it's a few easy breezy Wharton courses. I'd say over 50-75% of law students sign up for that certificate and then go represent it on their resumes and LinkedIn as if they have a legit Wharton degree. I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar certificate programs with the med school/other grad schools too.

That being said if your child wants to study finance at the undergrad level, I'd still recommend Wharton over any other school (they can WORK in finance with any degree from any ivy but I mean a kid that actually wants to primarily take finance classes at school rather than say English or sociology or whatever). Given the info re the online MBA, I may think twice re going to Wharton for an MBA.[/quote]

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