Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business

The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business is Penn's unique dual-degree undergraduate program in business, language, and the liberal arts. Students in the Program fulfill all of the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree (from the School of Arts and Sciences) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics (from the Wharton School). The Program is both challenging and selective. Each class is limited to no more than forty students, selected from a world-wide applicant pool. As do all Wharton students, IS&B students take the core courses in accounting, finance, management, marketing, operations and information management, and statistics that are designed to provide competency in basic business skills, and they concentrate in one of 17 functional areas of business. At the same time, IS&B students take courses in arts and letters, formal reasoning, history and tradition, the physical and social sciences, and a language of specialization, all of which fulfill the general requirement of the School of Arts and Sciences and provide a broad liberal arts education. For more details, please contact the Program at 215-898-2058.

A semester abroad experience enables the students to reach the level of proficiency needed to conduct an interactive interview or negotiate in their target languages. They do not study in an "island" program designed for international students, but live with families and take courses in history, politics, and literature with regular university students, thereby also developing an understanding of the culture and the political and social institutions of the area.

Huntsman students not only specialize in one area of the world, however, but also develop an extensive understanding of the changing global environment. International Studies courses such as Comparative Economic Systems, The Evolution of Industrial Capitalism, and Contemporary International Politics introduce them to the political, economic, and cultural complexities of the world today.

The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business is located at 3732 Locust Walk and can be reached by telephone at 215-898-2058.