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Rotman School improves in Financial Times ranking of MBA programs

January 31, 2012

TORONTO, ON – In the annu­al rank­ing of glob­al MBA pro­grams from the Finan­cial Times, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment rose two posi­tions to place 44^th glob­al­ly, and 20^th in North Amer­i­ca, up three spots. The school was also ranked 10^th for the research pro­duced by fac­ul­ty and 15^th for its PhD pro­gram.

“There is as always lots of room for improve­ment, but I am pleased with our progress towards being rec­og­nized as one of the world’s top tier busi­ness schools,” said Dean Roger Mar­tin. “On the research front, we are par­tic­u­lar­ly pleased to have cracked the top 10 over­all. I think that is unde­ni­able evi­dence that we have a world-class fac­ul­ty. Sec­ond, our progress has been noth­ing short of spec­tac­u­lar. Ten years ago, we ranked 58^th in research. Con­grat­u­la­tions to our fac­ul­ty mem­bers for their research suc­cess and to Vice-Dean Peter Pauly and Asso­ciate Dean Joel Baum for their lead­er­ship in build­ing our fac­ul­ty.”

The school also made sub­stan­tial gains in some of the career-ori­ent­ed fac­tors, includ­ing sub­stan­tial improve­ments in Salary Increase (high­est among Cana­di­an schools), Val­ue for Mon­ey and Aims Achieved.

The FT MBA rank­ing is based on data com­piled from sur­veys com­plet­ed by each par­tic­i­pat­ing busi­ness schools, and a sur­vey of the school’s alum­ni who grad­u­at­ed three years ago. The com­plete results are online at:

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2012

The Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is redesign­ing busi­ness edu­ca­tion for the 21st cen­tu­ry with a cur­ricu­lum based on Inte­gra­tive Think­ing. Locat­ed in the world’s most diverse city, the Rot­man School fos­ters a new way to think that enables the design of cre­ative busi­ness solu­tions.  The School is cur­rent­ly rais­ing $200 mil­lion to ensure Cana­da has the world-class busi­ness school it deserves. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Ken McGuf­fin
Man­ag­er, Media Rela­tions
Rot­man School of Man­age­ment
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
Voice 416–946-3818
E‑mail mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca
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