Overview

• Alumnus Bruce I. Jacobs is funding the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Master of Science in Quantitative Finance with a $60 million donation.
• The contribution is the largest in Wharton’s history and lifts Jacobs’s total giving to the school to more than $80 million.
• The program is Wharton’s first new degree in about 50 years, with a one-year curriculum in quantitative methods, machine learning, artificial intelligence and financial markets to prepare graduates for quantitative asset management.
• The inaugural cohort is scheduled to start in fall 2026, with early enrollment focused on Penn students completing quantitative undergraduate degrees.
• Students will take required data-science and asset-pricing courses, choose from 30-plus electives, complete a real-world capstone and benefit from expanded AI computing resources such as Penn’s new Betty facility.