<p>My primary focus in college is to finish a bachelor in business, but I want to balance my business education with, perhaps, a liberal arts joint-degree or minor. I consider myself a visionary entrepreneur, and I hope to pursue some entrepreneur project during school. So I applied, among other colleges, to MIT and Upenn (both have leading undergraduate business programs). I do not know where to go. </p>
<p>Wharton is constantly ranked first in the Nation. It has some innovative classes, such as management 100, and incredible business resources. It is not neccesary to note that Wharton historically has produced several busieness leaders. </p>
<p>But I think that Upenn's undergraduate business program is too much focussed in business and does not allow students to broad their knowledge in other fields. For example, the typical Wharton's sophomore curriculum includes accounting, marketing, management and finance, all in the same semester. Also, it would be easier and more productive to pursue a entrepreneur project in MIT, with all the technological resources, than in Upenn, with all the business resources. </p>
<p>MIT's business school is also very reknown, but MIT itself is too much oriented into math and sciences. MIT has several good entrepreneur competitions and Sloan has good business resources. </p>
<p>I do not want to let go away the MIT's offer of admission without being sure that Upenn is what I really want.</p>
<p>wow that semester course load you mentioned mimics the one i just had. i go to nyu stern, however. you have to keep in mind that yes, schools do want you to become 'worldly' and take courses outside of business, but you also need to understand that knowledge of all these various topics of business outside your major is essential in order to become a successful entrepreneur. if you want to grapple with literary texts, learn another language, etc, you can most certainly do that outside of school if your room for credits don't allow you to do so. (i do)</p>
<p>from what i understand, upenn will probably offer you a more liberal-arts based curriculum than will mit. you also learn a lot from students, and the student body at upenn is quite different than at mit. however, i think i once read somewhere that mit and harvard students can take classes at each others campus? that could be a great perk to have as well. but for greater diversity and actually learning different things from different sources and not just from class, i think i'd go with upenn..though i hate that part of philadelphia. ;] good luck</p>
<p>I'm a freshman at Penn in Wharton and I can tell you that around 40% of your classes are non business related. After sophomore year you focus on a concentration or two in business while taking about two liberal arts classes (or whatever your interested in) a semester. And they have quite an impressive entrepreneur program with a lot of passionate individuals, sounds like you would fit in well. Do some more research and best of luck</p>
<p>Yes, as collegehopeful said, several of your classes at Wharton will be non-business related.
Also, don't put a high value on MGMT 100 - that class is kinda BS. Other Wharton classes do live up to their reputation.</p>