aside from his wealth his very good genes his vast feeling for economic issues his many tall buildings and his golf courses that ring the Earth one of the most important things about Donald Trump according to Trump himself is that he graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania one of the country's top Business Schools Trump got his degree in 1968 and almost 50 years later he still can't stop talking about it I went to the Wharton School of Business he'll have you know I'm like a really smart person he has called Wharton the best school in the world and Super Genius stuff and argues that his Warton degree qualifies him to be president because we need business genius in this country after Trump mocked a New York Times Reporter With A congenital joint condition he later denied having done it saying I would never I'm a smart person I went to the Wharton School of Finance but while Trump Praises Wharton to the skies Wharton is straining to say nothing at all school officials have refused to comment on Trump since he declared his candidacy even declining to address basic facts about his history there Penn student newspaper the daily Pennsylvanian has always enjoyed good access to Wharton leaders but when reporter and Warton student Cory Stern saw in some old records that Trump had once served on a Wharton Board of overseers the school wouldn't confirm it one way or the other if it was Donald Trump's name no no comment on anything