Dean Roger Martin Comments on FT MBA Ranking

January 22, 2001

From Dean Roger L. Martin

The Financial Times 2001 ranking of international business schools was released today. This year 100 schools from around the world were included in the ranking. Nine Canadian business schools were included which is good news for the Canadian B-School industry.

The Rotman School ranked 46th this year. For the first time we have been included in the top half of the survey. In numerical terms, we are five positions lower from last year but our position relative to our global competitors continues to rise. An additional 25 schools were added to this year’s survey. Two of these schools ranked ahead of us. Of note, only a few points separate a large number of schools, including Rotman, below the leading 15 schools.

The complete survey results can be found at www.ft.com or in today’s issue of the Financial Times.

The ranking shows that we are on track but we will need to continue to push ahead on our ambitious five-year plan. It will take time for these changes to be reflected. Much of the FT’s ranking is based on information dating back as far as five years ago, long before we began to move aggressively forward. Therefore the ranking is not an up-to-date snapshot of the true progress and momentum that we have achieved in the past three years. We know that the marketplace is responding positively to our changes.

This year we continue to attract hundreds of applicants to the MBA program.

It has been a record year for the MBA Career Development Centre. There is an absolute war for our graduating students as more firms than ever want to recruit at the Rotman School.

Two recent joint information sessions for the Part-Time and Executive MBA programs attracted capacity crowds, almost 200 potential applicants between both sessions.

We have successfully incorporated new classes on integration into the curriculum.

Our Part-Time MBA program will be relaunched in May.

The PhD program has been expanded with two new streams and an increase in enrollment across the entire program.

Leading Canadian firms and industries are making Rotman their first choice for their Executive training needs. In the past year alone we have created new executive programs for the Aerospace industry, the Ontario Chiefs of Police, and Ontario Power Generation, among others.

We continue to expand international partnerships with business schools on three continents bringing students from around the world to Rotman and sending Rotman faculty and students abroad.

Our fundraising efforts continue to be rewarded as alumni and the international business community support financially the new goals for the School.

Special events such as the ongoing Rotman E-Biz Forum are attracting the major thinkers and strategists from the business world.

The Rotman School continues to receive the most media coverage of any B-school in Canada.

Our marketing materials continue to win national and international awards for excellence.

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