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Early Modern Studies
Graduate
In combination with the superb pre- 1800 libraries in Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania has exceptional strength in the general area of Western and world studies for the period from 1400 to 1800. In every field from Romance Languages to comparative imperialism Penn's faculty and library rank among the best in the country.

Earth & Environmental Science
Graduate, Undergraduate | BA, MS, PHD
The mission of our department is to bring the time perspective of the Earth scientist/historian to bear on contemporary problems of natural-resource conservation and environmental quality. We pursue this mission by exploring present and past interactions of processes that integrate the four terrestrial spheres: lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. On the graduate level, the Department welcomes committed, energetic individuals from all disciplines who seek the excitement that will be provided by a lifetime of discovery in the study of the history, the present dynamics, and the future of Earth.

East Asian Languages and Civilization
Graduate, Undergraduate | AM, BA, PHD
The undergraduate program in EALC offers language training and courses in the culture, history, literature, and archaeology of East Asia. The graduate program in EALC deals with two major areas, China and Japan (a graduate program in Korean is planned for the future), and all of its programs focus mainly upon language, philology, and the study of civilization and culture. Each provides training for the Ph.D. and A.M. degrees.

East Asian Studies
Graduate, Undergraduate | BA
East Asian Studies focuses on East Asia as a region of the world and human experience, and provides an integrated curriculum drawing on the approaches of the social sciences, humanities, and legal studies. The program requires relevant courses in areas including history, international relations, political science, sociology, Asian and Middle Eastern studies and law, while maintaining high standards in language study. The program is administered by the Center for East Asian Studies, an interdisciplinary institution that also facilitates interdepartmental initiatives and outreach programs. The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is composed of faculty members whose teaching and research focus primarily on China, Japan, Korea, and bordering areas.

Economics
Graduate, Undergraduate | AM, BA, MS, PHD
The Economics Department, located in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, is ranked among the top ten in the U.S. Its faculty, productive and research-oriented, is committed to the advancement of economic science. Economics is the study of the choices made by individuals and organizations. The study of economics gives training in economic principles and provides a useful background for students preparing for a career in law, public service, or business who wish a liberal arts program rather than a more technical curriculum.

Education
Graduate, Undergraduate
The Penn Graduate School of Education offers programs leading to the Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.), the Master of Science (M.S.), the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Our degree programs offer a range of professional preparation for those seeking to begin or advance in a career in education. The School also offers a range of part-time and full-time special degree and non-degree programs for aspiring school leaders, working teachers, career changers, and higher education and K-12 executives. Undergraduate studies in education is presented by the School of Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the Graduate School of Education. Students explore a broad range of topics for teacher preparation, such as language, human growth and development, and the role of education in society. Students analyze the theory and practice of teaching in each of the following curriculum areas: reading/language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, art and music and children’s literature.

Education, Culture, and Society
Graduate | MS, PHD
The ECS program provides students with opportunities to study a broad range of educational processes, forms of cultural production, transmission, and socialization across multiple contexts of learning, including schools, families, peer groups, neighborhoods and internationally.

Educational Leadership
Graduate | EDD, MS
This program is designed for knowledgeable practitioners (teachers, administrators, principals, and heads of school) who seek innovative roles in public and independent schools or in government agencies dealing with educational issues.

Educational Leadership Program for Aspiring Principals
Graduate | MS
The ELPAP trains students to conceptualize and lead school improvement efforts. Its unique cohort model of leadership development focuses on helping students develop the competencies and knowledge base required to become an effective instructional leader. The program offers certification only or a Master's degree with certification.

Educational Linguistics
Graduate | PHD
The program focuses on language learning and teaching and, broadly, the role of language in learning and teaching. The program emphasizes the integration of linguistics and education, while also drawing on an interdisciplinary base to investigate relationships among language, culture, society and education.

Educational Policy
Graduate | MS, PHD
This program seeks to improve K-12 education through research on policy, finance, school reform and school governance.

Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate | BSE
Develop new technologies that acquire, transmit, store and process information as electrical and optical signals to work in modern day technological advances and products. The Electrical Engineering major at Penn Engineering ranges across telephony, mobile and satellite communications, fiber optics, electrical power and machinery, instrumentation, computer systems, satellite systems, microelectronics, robotics, graphics, automatic control, and telecommunications. The program is a flexible, broadbased major that provides a rigorous grounding in the analytical and experimental foundations of electrical engineering while allowing a student substantial flexibility in crafting an individualized program reflecting his or her interests and career goals.

Electrical and Systems Engineering
Graduate | PHD
The PhD program welcomes candidates with a strong background in science and engineering who are interested in pursuing an academic doctoral degree. The objective of this program is to help students develop skills needed to perform independent research and teaching in an exciting intellectual environment. The students will work with world-class faculty advisors and mentors. Our research laboratories provide ample opportunities for students to work with other students and faculty to develop cutting-edge theories and technologies in collaboration with other departments and schools within the University.

Electrical Engineering
Graduate | MSE
Interconnections between electrical and systems engineering are creating a fresh vision of knowledge, its uses, and its users. This exciting synergy is evident in the recent merger of Penn’s electrical engineering and systems engineering departments. The Master's Program in Electrical Engineering gives you the theoretical foundation and the interdisciplinary skills needed to deal with the new ideas and new applications that are the hallmarks of 21st Century Electroscience. A major advantage is that our master's program allows you to tailor your education to you own interest and goals, from electromagnetics and photonics, sensors and MEMS, to VLSI and nanotechnology.

Elementary Education
Graduate | MS
The Elementary Education Program program prepares students to become reflective, collaborative, creative teacher leaders. Students pursue certification in elementary education and earn the Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) degree through this full-time, ten-month program.

Embedded Systems
Graduate | MSE
The Master of Science in Engineering in Embedded Systems (EMBS) is offered jointly by the Departments of Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering within the School of Engineering. This innovative and unique degree program will train students in the fundamentals of embedded systems design and implementation. The EMBS degree program is integrated with the PRECISE Center for Research in Embedded Systems. The program is ideally suited for students with either computer science or electrical engineering academic background who wish to pursue industrial jobs in automotive, aerospace, defense, and consumer electronics, as well as for practicing engineers in the embedded systems industry who want to gain knowledge in state-of-the-art tools and theories. The core topics span embedded control, real-time operating systems, model-based design and verification, and implementation of embedded systems.

Engineering
Undergraduate | BSE
The Bachelor of Science in Engineering is a traditional engineering degree that prepares students to be professional engineers and computer scientists.

Engineering
Graduate | MB, MCT, MSE, PHD
Today's seven graduate (master's and doctoral) engineering programs are: Bioengineering; Chemical Engineering; Computer and Information Science; Electrical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics; and Systems Engineering. There are also several professional masters' programs in: Executive Master's in Technology Management (EMTM), Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT), Master of Science in Engineering in Computer Graphics and Game Technology (CGGT), Master of Biotechnology, Telecommunications and Networking (TCOM), Electrical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.

English
Undergraduate | BA
Students deciding to pursue English at Penn study language, literature, literary history and theories of literary production in a thirteen-course major of flexible design. While completing the language and literature requirement and the five required courses in the literary historical "core," majors also pursue their own special literary interests in six-course concentrations of their own choosing. English offers more than twenty distinct concentrations, including several options for creative writers.

English
Graduate | AM, PHD
The Graduate Group in English offers a flexible five-year Ph.D. program that combines broad coverage of English and American literature with concentrations shaped by student interests. There is also a Masters of Arts Program as well as The Dual Master's Degree Program in English and Education.

English Language Programs
Graduate, Undergraduate
Each year, 1,800 students from all over the world come to the ELP. They study English for a wide variety of purposes, including: general English; business English; English for academic preparation; English for professions such as law, architecture, dental medicine, and nursing; and teacher training.

Entrepreneurial Management - MBA
Graduate | MBA
The Entrepreneurial Management major within the Wharton curriculum allows students to either make a career change directly into entrepreneurial ventures or to return to the field with the necessary frameworks and skills. The major is also an appropriate choice for those considering private equity or management consulting or those entering smaller companies with a strong growth curve. Entrepreneurial Management is commonly coupled with Finance, Marketing, or Strategic Management.

Entrepreneurship - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
Entrepreneurship is one of the most exciting options available to the Wharton graduate today. Entrepreneurial and active thinking skills are sought more and more by competitive, profitable growing businesses. The Entrepreneurial Management courses provide students with skills, analytical tools, and concepts to prepare them for careers as autonomous entrepreneurs, family-business entrepreneurs, or corporate "intra-entrepreneurs." The special strength of these courses is that it combines theory with practice, providing students the opportunity to test in the field the theories, models, and strategies learned in the classroom.

Environmental and Risk Management - MBA
Graduate | MBA
The Wharton School's major in Environmental and Risk Management makes sense for students interested in pursuing careers that focus on sustainable business initiatives. It focuses on the confluence between environmental management and "triple bottom-line" reporting, which has become so important in balanced scorecard approaches to accounting and investor relations. The electives are popular as a complement for those pursuing other majors but are nevertheless interested in understanding the sustainability debate, international environmental issues related to trade and emerging economies, and the intersecting issues of business ethics, social responsibility, and managerial decision making.

Environmental Policy and Management - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
Recognizing the growing importance of the environment as a factor in organizational decision-making, the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences offers a minor in Organizations and Environmental Management, which will allow students both to understand the nature of environmental constraints which face organizations and individuals in the modern world, and to understand how these constraints can be effectively considered as part of the decision-making process in for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

Environmental Studies
Undergraduate | BA
The program in environmental studies is designed to achieve an understanding of the breadth of contemporary environmental issues through a series of courses in environmental studies, while ensuring that each student pursue a purposeful course of study in some traditionally defined area of scholarship. Graduates of the program are trained for professions directly or indirectly involved with problems of environmental quality

Environmental Studies
Graduate | MES
Within its twelve schools, the University encompasses programs and faculty who address aspects of environmental analysis and management from many perspectives. The Institute for Environmental Studies (IES) at Penn draws these individuals into a focused intellectual community which forms an academic base for the graduate program in Environmental Studies

Ethics and Legal Studies - Doctoral
Graduate | PHD
The doctoral program in Ethics and Legal Studies is a new PhD program at the Wharton School, announced in 2003. It focuses on the study of ethical and legal norms of conduct in management. Students take a core set of courses in the area of ethics and law in business plus courses in one additional disciplinary concentration such as management, finance, marketing, or accounting. Faculty research is concentrated in several broad areas: business ethics, business law, negotiation, law and philosophy, and international ethical and legal issues. Departmental workshops allow students personal access to researchers working on cutting-edge topics in the profession. The presence of the prestigious Zicklin Center for Research in Business Ethics provides an important additional resource for PhD students.

Ethnohistory Program
Undergraduate
The Ethnohistory Program is an interdisciplinary enterprise that draws upon the expertise and interests of faculty throughout the University.Ethnohistory, as it is pursued at the University of Pennsylvania, seeks insight into human behavior based upon evidence from written documents, oral literature, material culture, and sociocultural analysis within a comparative and crosscultural framework.

Ethnohistory Program
Graduate, Undergraduate
In the last twenty years, faculty members of the departments in American, European, and World history have assumed a leading role in introducing and promoting new varieties of historical research and writing. Today, no other institution surpasses the Penn history department's coverage of social history or equals the distinction of its faculty in that field.

Executive Business Administration
Graduate
The Wharton MBA curriculum has been developed to meet the emerging needs of businesses in a rapidly changing, global market. A Wharton MBA is grounded in a solid core of knowledge, enhanced by electives, and designed to help you reach your goals.

Executive Development Program (EDP) - Wharton Executive Education
Graduate
The Wharton School's Executive Development Program (EDP) is designed for successful executives who are transitioning from functional to general management roles or taking on broader responsibilities in their firms. The primary focus is to anchor leadership and business principles in the context of organizational systems. Participants will increase their capacity for strategic decision making and build capabilities for leading across teams, functions and countries.

Executive Master's in Technology Management (EMTM)
Graduate | MSE
The Executive Master's in Technology Management (EMTM) is a two-year weekend residential graduate degree program for technology managers seeking to broaden their skills without disrupting their careers. It develops leaders who can integrate multiple technologies into products and systems, direct multidisciplinary technical teams and turn technological innovations into commercial success. Designed to prepare students for leadership in organizations where exploiting rapidly changing and emerging technologies is key to success, EMTM offers a balanced curriculum in both technology and management taught by faculty of Penn Engineering and the Wharton School. Students earn an MSE (Master's of Science in Engineering) in the Management of Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and an EMTM certificate from Penn Engineering and the Wharton School.