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Information Session

All Penn Carey Law LLM students are invited to attend an information session hosted by  Wharton to learn more about the Wharton Business and Law Certificate program. These information sessions will be held in March (virtually) and early August, (face to face on Wharton’s campus). Details will be forthcoming via email.

Application Information and Tuition

Students accepted to the Penn LLM program who are interested in enrolling in the Wharton Business and Law Certificate must submit an electronic application via Wharton Executive Education’s website. The link to this application will be provided by Penn Carey Law after acceptance into the Penn Carey Law LLM program. Please contact Penn Carey Law School if you would like the link re-sent: gradadmissions@law.upenn.edu.

Please note: The Wharton Business and Law Certificate (WBLC) is not a degree program, and the LLM and the WBLC are separate and distinct programs. Courses in the WBLC are non-credit, supplemental courses that do not count toward the LLM. Conversely, courses in the LLM program do not count toward the WBLC. The WBLC will not confer Wharton alumni status on students who complete it.

Application Deadline: Friday, August 22nd, 2025.

Tuition: $15,425*
*This tuition includes the cost of textbooks, lecture notes, and other learning materials. Tuition includes enrollment in the four courses offered, however to earn the WBLC certificate, students must successfully complete three courses.
Enrollment Confirmation: After you have submitted your online application, you will receive a confirmation letter from Wharton Executive Education within one week. You will be invoiced for the program at this time. The total program tuition, $15,425, is to be paid in full by August 29, 2025. For those who need to split the payment in half by semester, the first payment of $7,712.50 is due by Friday, August 22, 2025 and the second payment is due by Monday, January 5, 2026. No financial aid is available.

Please add the email address execed@wharton.upenn.edu to your email account so that this notification does not get routed to a spam folder.

Only those students who have committed to the Penn Carey Law LLM program may apply to the Wharton Business and Law Certificate program.

Who Is Eligible*

Corporate lawyers, in-house counsel, judges, bankers, and other internationally trained legal professionals enrolled in Penn Carey Law’s LLM program are eligible.

*Please note that completing the WBLC will not grant a Wharton degree or Wharton alumni status to students.

Certificate Requirements

To receive the WBLC certificate, candidates must satisfactorily complete three semester-long WBLC courses.

Students who successfully complete the WBLC program will receive a Wharton Business and Law Certificate and, upon request,  documentation issued by Wharton’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education  which lists courses taken.

The WBLC courses do not earn academic credit. Upon completion of a course, students receive a Pass/Fail (P/F). This is at the discretion of the course instructor and will be explained in the course syllabus provided on the first day of class. For a given WBLC course to count toward the certificate, a student must achieve a Pass (P).

Withdrawal Policies and Tuition Refund

Tuition will be invoiced with the official acceptance letter. For those who need to split the payment in half by semester, the first payment of $7,712.50 is due by August 22, 2025 and the second payment is due by January 5, 2026. If you would like the split tuition payment option, please let us know when you receive your emailed invoice.

As each student is charged full tuition for the Wharton Business and Law Certificate prior to the start of the fall semester, should a student wish to withdraw from the WBLC, the following tuition schedule will apply:

  • Withdrawal prior to program start: 100 percent of the paid annual tuition will be refunded.
  • Withdrawal after the fall semester begins: 50 percent of total tuition.
  • Withdrawal after the spring semester begins: No refund.

Students who withdraw due to illness must include with their withdrawal request a physician’s letter that clearly states the student has been disabled by an injury or illness that arose after the beginning of classes and is unable to continue class work.

Students who withdraw due to military service must include a copy of military orders or a signed affidavit from the military member’s commanding officer that confirms the military orders and the dates of the assignment.

Additional Questions/General Program Support

For matters related to WBLC course selection, tuition payments, or other administrative issues, please contact Wharton Executive Education’s Client Relations department:

+1.215.898.1776

For matters related to Penn Carey Law classes, general program enrollment, or other academic issues, please contact Penn Carey Law:

Graduate Programs
+1.215.898.0407