TORONTO, October 30, 2000 -- Beginning with a class starting in May 2001, the University of Toronto’s Joseph L. Rotman School of Management will launch a redesigned Part Time MBA program to allow busy working professionals to acquire an MBA in an unprecedented three years.

Subject to necessary approvals, the planned curriculum for the Part Time MBA will incorporate the School’s trademark “Integrative Thinking” approach to modern management education, as well as allowing students to choose one of the Rotman MBA’s three more popular specialty streams: corporate finance/investment banking, e-business/marketing, and entrepreneurship/new ventures - the Rotman School's newest innovation stream.

“Today's rapidly changing business economy demands accomplishments in a shorter time frame than ever before,” says Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School. “Jobs and careers aren't what they used to be. Markets are global, competitors and collaborators regularly change places, and new ventures arise out of nowhere while traditional organizations downsize, outsource and re-assess their core competencies. These trends symbolize the environment of constant change that is the essence of business in the New Economy.”

Professor Harvey Kolodny, Part Time program director and head of the curriculum redesign adds: “Not everyone can leave their full time job to pursue an MBA. Now, ambitious professionals with 5 to 8 years of work experience can enjoy all the benefits of the Rotman community, while continuing to work. The influx of a great Part Time class of 60 top students who are actively engaged in the business world helps create a rich and vibrant learning community encompassing a broad range of experiences in all industry sectors.”

Like the Rotman Full Time MBA, the Part Time program will emphasize “integrative thinking” -- the ability to look beyond traditional business disciplines to approach problems in a holistic manner. The Part Time program will continue its emphasis on team-based learning.

“It's never been a more exciting time to join our unique learning community, as students, professors and the business community team up to pioneer a new approach to management thinking designed to give leaders new tools for the New Economy,” says Martin. “Entrance standards for the new program are high, but that only means we will continue to develop Rotman’s elite cohort of great minds.”

To attend an information session on the new program, RSVP to (416) 946-7443 or see our section on information sessions on our website at www.rotman.utoronto.ca .

Recently ranked by Business Week in the top tier of business schools in the world, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School offers leading-edge research and undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers.

Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
Fax: (416) 978-1373
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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