University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, is a founding Ivy League university in West Philadelphia, home to 26,000+ students. Penn's Wharton School — established in 1881 — is the world's first collegiate business school and consistently ranked among the top MBA programmes globally, with a large and celebrated Indian alumni cohort including Sundar Pichai. Penn Engineering birthed ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer, and remains a leader in machine learning and robotics. Its Perelman School of Medicine performed the world's first mRNA-vaccine research (via Nobel Laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman), the foundation of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccines. Wharton also hosts the Wharton India Economic Forum, the world's largest student-run India-focused conference.