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Immunology
Graduate | PHD
Students in the Program have the opportunity to enrich their training not only through coursework, but also by attending any of a number of scientific presentations.

Individualized - MBA
Graduate | MBA
Wharton allows students with specific needs that are not met by the traditional majors to pursue an individualized major. Recent examples include the Private Equity major (popular with the evolving private equity industry), Turnaround Management (relevant for opportunities working with distressed businesses and leveraged buyouts), and Corporate Development (relevant for mergers and acquisitions).

Individualized - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
You may find, after thoroughly examining options currently available at the Wharton School, that the standard concentrations do not satisfy your interests or goals. You may then explore the possibility of designing an individualized concentration, consisting of at least four Wharton courses that are united by a common theme.

Information: Strategy, Systems, and Economics - MBA
Graduate | MBA
The Wharton School's "Information: Strategy, Systems, and Ecnomics" major emphasizes the use of information for strategic advantage. Its interdisciplinary approach speaks to the manner in which information is now valued and used in the marketplace. It is an appropriate choice for those interested in management consulting or business intelligence.

Insurance and Risk Management - Doctoral
Graduate | PHD
The Wharton School's PhD program in Insurance and Risk Management is regarded as the world's leading doctoral program in the field. The faculty is internationally renowned for research in the microeconomic theory of insurance, applications of financial theory to insurance and risk management, theoretical and empirical research on industrial organization of insurance markets, economic and financial analysis of public and private pensions, and benefit programs and actuarial science.

Insurance and Risk Management - MBA
Graduate | MBA
Wharton's Insurance and Risk Management major is designed for those who want careers in the insurance industry, whether on the underwriting or agent side. It is applicable for those in other industries who deal with risk and hedging issues. And it is relevant for personal financial planning, risk management, and employee benefits management. Electives in this field are a popular complement to other majors, particularly Finance, which may lead to positions in insurance company investment and/or pension fund management. Management consulting firms look for candidates with insurance expertise for positions involving insurance industry analysis, including insurance company formations and acquisition.

Insurance and Risk Management - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
The insurance and risk management concentration at the Wharton School examines the techniques useful to corporations, organizations and individuals in minimizing the potential financial losses arising from their exposure to risk. These techniques range from traditional insurance products (e.g., property-liability insurance, life-health insurance, pensions and employee benefits) to current advances in corporate and insurer risk management (e.g., risk financing and retention, non-insurance risk transfer, catastrophe derivatives). The concentration also encompasses such topics as risk and insurance regulation, global risk management estate planning, insurer financial management, insurer strategic management and related public policy issues. Students graduating with this concentration have taken positions with investment banks, re-insurers, accounting firms, insurance brokerage firms, consulting firms, insurance companies and corporate risk management departments.

Integrated Product Design
Graduate | MSE
The University of Pennsylvania’s Integrated Product Design program provides the skills to rethink, reinterpret, redesign and reconstruct a wide range of products and their complementary business models. The program draws on the strengths of three internationally recognized schools within the University: the School of Engineering & Applied Science, The Wharton School, and the School of Design. The graduate courses that make up the program adopt an interdisciplinary point of view, and are taught by professors from all three schools. Collaborative team projects and student-driven independent projects complement the core courses to give students both a solid grasp of the fundamentals and a deep understanding of the nuances of these fields. The program is designed to cultivate professionals that possess both a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise in a specialty, in order to effectively bridge the domains of technology, manufacturing, business, aesthetics, and human-product interaction. The guiding philosophy of the program is not only to teach students to create products, but to understand and address the social, environmental and experiential contexts of those products, so that product design can be harnessed as a force for the greater good.

Intercultural Communications
Graduate | MS
The Intercultural Communication Program prepares students to address problems that arise from cultural differences in values, assumptions and modes of interaction and to work in educational, social service, business, governmental, or intergovernmental agency settings.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development
Graduate | MS, PHD
The program combines the study of social, emotional, cognitive, and physical aspects of human development that are focused on urban populations, considered within eco-cultural contexts, and relevant to social policies.

International Relations
Undergraduate | BA
International Relations addresses the ways in which governments, private groups and individuals relate to each other in the global political and economic systems. The program provides a solid grounding in the methodologies of political science, history and economics. The curriculum draws on the best courses relevant to world politics, offers a well-rounded liberal arts education and helps prepare students for law or business school, Ph.D. programs and international careers.

International Studies and Business
Undergraduate | BA
The Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business, a unique four-year undergraduate course of study, integrates business education, advanced language training and a liberal arts education. Huntsman students graduate with a professional education and an understanding of political, economic and cultural complexities in the world. They are able to work effectively in the global economy of the 21st century.

Italian
Graduate
Requirements for the M.A. in Italian (en route toward the Ph.D.) At least eight course units above the 500 level, all of which must be earned at this University, in courses approved by the graduate chair. Requirements for the Ph.D. in Italian At least 20 course units in courses numbered above 500, at least 12 of which must be earned at this University.

Italian Studies
Graduate, Undergraduate | BA
The Italian Studies section of the Romance Languages Department offers programs in language, literature, film, linguistics, cultural studies and civilization for students with or without a background in Italian. At the core of this program is the study of the Italian language, understood both in the narrow sense of verbal communication, but also in the larger sense of textual messages—literary, cinematic, historical, art-historical, and mass-cultural.