The Wharton Pre-baccalaureate Program is an academically-intensive opportunity for exceptional high school juniors and seniors to enroll in Wharton online courses.
Participants will learn from Wharton instructors, earn a Wharton transcript, and accrue college credit for each course completed. With six sessions to choose from and built-in academic support, students are encouraged to explore the depth and breadth of Wharton’s business education curriculum with maximum flexibility and the guidance and resources to succeed.
Current/Upcoming Sessions
Academic Year Sessions
- Fall 1, 2023: August 28 – October 9*
- Fall 2, 2023: October 23 – December 6*
- Spring 1, 2024: January 16 – February 22*
*Additional courses may be added in the coming months.
Summer Sessions
“The interactive nature of Negotiations was one of the main factors of my enjoyment as after each homework reading, you got the opportunity to see the theories and strategies in action. I could definitely see myself in a career to do with negotiations in the future!”
— Duncan B., The Netherlands
Course List by Session
Summer 1, 2023: May 22 – June 28*
Application Deadline: March 30, 2023
*Additional courses TBD
FNCE 0001: Introduction to Financial Markets and the Global Economy
This course aims to provide a timely framework to understand economic recessions and expansions and the financial markets’ response to world events.
The Covid recession reduced the size of the world’s economies and output. What does this mean? How is output connected to employment? How are exchange rates determined in global capital markets? We will introduce the policy options of government spending. We will discuss, as data become available, the continuing impact of the coronavirus on the domestic and the global economy.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Gizem Saka
Course Materials Fee: No
Course Syllabi ❯❯
MGMT 0001: Principles of Management
The course will help you understand multiple aspects of how managers address their environments, strategy, structure, culture, tasks, people, and outputs, and how managerial decisions made in these various domains interrelate. Organizations emerge because individuals can’t (or don’t want to) accomplish their goals alone. Management is the art and science of helping individuals achieve their goals together. Managers in an organization determine where their organization is going and how it gets there. More formally, managers formulate strategies and implement those strategies.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Sara Jane McCaffrey
Course Materials Fee: No
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STAT 0001: Introduction to Statistics and Data Science
In this course, we will learn introductory statistics using R with a focus on the application of statistical thinking to business problems. We will learn basic statistical concepts such as mean, variance, quantiles and hypothesis testing, and basic R programming for data management and analysis. We will work with traditional R’s data.frame structure as well as the modern tibbles structure.
Prerequisite: Percentages, average, powers, exponential, linear equation of a line, polynomials.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Shuva Gupta
Course Materials Fee: No
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Summer 2, 2023: June 29 – August 4*
Application Deadline: May 3, 2023
*Additional courses TBD
FNCE 0001: Introduction to Financial Markets and the Global Economy
This course aims to provide a timely framework to understand economic recessions and expansions and the financial markets’ response to world events.
The Covid recession reduced the size of the world’s economies and output. What does this mean? How is output connected to employment? How are exchange rates determined in global capital markets? We will introduce the policy options of government spending. We will discuss, as data become available, the continuing impact of the coronavirus on the domestic and the global economy.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Gizem Saka
Course Materials Fee: No
Course Syllabi ❯❯
MKTG 0002: Consumer Behavior
The purpose of this course is to provide students with working knowledge of the major theories and research findings in the area of consumer behavior. The goal of this course is for students to gain a deeper understanding of the psychologies behind behaviors, judgments, and decision-making, and to gain insight into how to apply them to influence behavior in the marketplace. By the end of this course, students should not only be familiar with a large body of consumer behavior literature, but should also be able to identify theories as they play out in the real world, and be able to apply behavioral principles to a variety of marketing problems.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Annie Wilson
Course Materials Fee: No
Course Syllabi ❯❯
OIDD 0001: Prescriptive Analytics: Making Business Decisions using Optimization and Simulation
In this course, we will explore the subject of quantitative business decision making. Specifically, we will study optimization and simulation tools and provide you with a set of key skills in the area of prescriptive analytics. We will illustrate the use of these tools in a variety of business applications, including manufacturing, logistics, inventory management, capital budgeting, insurance, and revenue management.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: TBD
Course Materials Fee: Yes; $76
Course Syllabi ❯❯
STAT 0001: Introduction to Statistics and Data Science
In this course, we will learn introductory statistics using R with a focus on the application of statistical thinking to business problems. We will learn basic statistical concepts such as mean, variance, quantiles and hypothesis testing, and basic R programming for data management and analysis. We will work with traditional R’s data.frame structure as well as the modern tibbles structure.
Prerequisite: Percentages, average, powers, exponential, linear equation of a line, polynomials.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Shuva Gupta
Course Materials Fee: No
COURSE SYLLABI ❯❯
MKTG 0001: Viral Marketing
Why do some products catch on and become popular while others fail? Why do apps and services take off while others languish? And why do certain ads, messages, or ideas stick in memory while others disappear the minute you hear them? Diffusion, social media, word of mouth, and viral marketing have become important topics for companies, brands, and organizations. Marketers want their products to be popular, organizations want their social change initiative to catch on, and entrepreneurs want their ideas to stick. This course investigates these and other topics as it explains how things catch on and become popular.
Meeting Days/Times: TBD
Instructor: Jonah Berger
Course Materials Fee: Yes; $76