Lauder Institute

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Lauder Institute

The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies
Type	Private
Established	1983
Parent institution	University of Pennsylvania
Director	Jules H. van Binsbergen
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies (The Lauder Institute) offers a joint degree program at the University of Pennsylvania, combining an MA in international studies from the School of Arts and Sciences with a MBA from The Wharton School or JD from the Penn Carey Law School.

In the program, students pursue one of six programs of concentration focused on five regional areas: Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America, or South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, or the Global Program. Within the regional programs of concentration over a 24-month period, students work to attain superior language proficiency in one of 11 languages: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.

Each year 60–70 students from around the world join the Lauder Program in May starting in Philadelphia before departing on a 5-week summer immersion to their respective regions of study. Students return to campus in August to join the MBA or JD program and then graduate with their class two years later. In the most recent incoming class, 42% of the class were US Citizens and 42% were international and 17% dual citizens.^[1]