The experience has been good. There are 260 students in the batch, split into four sections. In first year, the curriculum follows quarterly schedule. Therefore, the first year, especially the first 2 quarters, will be hell! Studying at Rotman is like drinking from a fire-hose. Too much works!
The exam can be ridiculous hard (ie. Finance, some girls cried after the exam). UofT uses bell-curve grading so it's hard to get grade above B+. Some people did failed at some courses and drop-out from the program. The Rotman MBA program is quite famous to have the highest drop-out percentage amongst Univ of Toronto graduate programs.
Internship is hard to get due to competition. There are 260 people eyeing for the same positions. I would say that each year, only 150 people get a job from the career center, and 50 more get job from their own network. So there are 50+ more people without internship.
Rotman is known for its finance program, and usually Internship is required for career switcher to Finance. That's why people choose 2-yr MBA school so that they can do internship. If you want to do non-finance career path, you are better of doing one-year MBA (ie. Ivey, Queens). It saves you money and time.
The good thing about the MBA program, the Career center sincerely helps the students. And most of the faculties have at least PhD from great schools (Ie. Harvard, Yale, MIT). Hence, the high tuition fee.
My advices for student who wanting to study in Canada: prepare to study hard and learn to network, the later is probably a Canadian thing. I am still learning the Canadian culture of finding jobs here myself.
Note that I've been frank about my own experience at Rotman because I don't want people fell into $90K of debt and have a bad MBA experience.
Good Luck to you all !!!
The experience has been good. There are 260 students in the batch, split into four sections. In first year, the curriculum follows quarterly schedule. Therefore, the first year, especially the first 2 quarters, will be hell! Studying at Rotman is like drinking from a fire-hose. Too much works!
The exam can be ridiculous hard (ie. Finance, some girls cried after the exam). UofT uses bell-curve grading so it's hard to get grade above B+. Some people did failed at some courses and drop-out from the program. The Rotman MBA program is quite famous to have the highest drop-out percentage amongst Univ of Toronto graduate programs.
Internship is hard to get due to competition. There are 260 people eyeing for the same positions. I would say that each year, only 150 people get a job from the career center, and 50 more get job from their own network. So there are 50+ more people without internship.
Rotman is known for its finance program, and usually Internship is required for career switcher to Finance. That's why people choose 2-yr MBA school so that they can do internship. If you want to do non-finance career path, you are better of doing one-year MBA (ie. Ivey, Queens). It saves you money and time.
The good thing about the MBA program, the Career center sincerely helps the students. And most of the faculties have at least PhD from great schools (Ie. Harvard, Yale, MIT). Hence, the high tuition fee.
My advices for student who wanting to study in Canada: prepare to study hard and learn to network, the later is probably a Canadian thing. I am still learning the Canadian culture of finding jobs here myself.
Note that I've been frank about my own experience at Rotman because I don't want people fell into $90K of debt and have a bad MBA experience.
Good Luck to you all !!!
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