Wharton West, the satellite campus in San Francisco of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, will relocate to new headquarters in January 2012, and plans to add a full-time MBA counterpart to the Philadelphia program are under consideration for the new location.
Wharton West, which offers MBA and executive MBA programs, celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the satellite campus will move its headquarters from the Folger Building to the Hills Plaza building, located on the Embarcadero in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) district.
“The relocation of our campus to Hills Plaza is aligned with our vision to establish Wharton as a vibrant presence on both coasts and, moving forward, to position it as a portal to countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim,” Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson said in a statement.
The Hills Plaza building was selected in part because “it [is] located in the SoMa neighborhood of the city, to ensure that Wharton San Francisco remains in an area known for innovation and entrepreneurship,” Wharton West Vice Dean Doug Collum told the Daily Pennsylvanian.
The new location will be 30 percent larger than the existing campus space and accommodate as many as 120 students, up from 95 currently, the Wall Street Journal reports. Collom told the Journal that plans to add a full-time MBA counterpart at the new Wharton West are “on the drawing board.”
Wharton West at Hills Plaza will feature 17 group study rooms and three classrooms equipped to facilitate live streaming and video conferencing. The technology enhancements are designed to allow Wharton West to invite students from the Philadelphia campus, alumni and other participants from around the world to sit in on lectures, speaker series and networking events, the Journal reports.
Construction on the Hills Plaza renovation is scheduled to begin this month, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
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