Wharton University

The University of Pennsylvania's business school is more commonly referred to as Wharton. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a prominent merchant and industrialist from Philadelphia, it became the world's first collegiate business school.

Students who attend Wharton can be expected to attain a valuable stock education during their stay at the Philadelphia-based school. Wharton has undergraduate, graduate and PhD programs and offers more electives than any other business school.

In the process of a potential stock investing education, Wharton students may opt to concentrate in accounting, business and public policy, entrepreneurial management, environmental management, finance, health care systems, human resource and organizational management, insurance and risk management, legal studies and business ethics, management, marketing, multinational management, operations and information management, real estate, retailing, statistics, and strategic management.

Student may arrive at Wharton as a stock market beginner, but advance each year and emerge with a degree and the ability to use a stock education to make money in the market. A stock investing education can take a student a long way, especially when the stock market exhibits periods of turbulence and uncertainty.

The school has a 17-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio and the faculty is one of the most published and most cited among all business schools. Admission into Wharton is difficult, which makes it tough for a stock market beginner to get into the program.

Wharton has been rated among the top five in rankings by Business Week, Financial Times, U.S. News and World Report, and the Wall Street Journal. The school has 81,000 members of its alumni association with members in 142 countries around the world. The school has 82 alumni clubs that provide support for the school.

Famous graduates of Wharton include Henry W. Bloch and Richard A. Bloch, founders and CEOs of H&R Block; Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity; Michael Adler, CFO of Expedia; Josh Kopelman, founder of Half.com; Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Paypal; and Len Bosack, co-founder of Cisco.