The FT Rankings came out today and they aren’t good at all. Rotman placed 40th this year... Down from placing 27th last year. (Rotman only participates in the FT and Business week business school rankings).
It is a small blow to the Rotman brand globally, as the FT rankings are the most global and diverse, unlike the Business Week rankings that are more US focussed.
What did we do wrong? The dean sent an email to the entire school discussing the ratings. You could tell he wasn’t pleased. Good reason too. The ranking drop was due to the ‘weighted salary increase’ category. Apparently it has to do with the fact that the starting salary for the class of 2004 was higher than the past year, etc..
The ratings that surprised me: LBS is 2nd. Indian School of Business placed 20th A lot more English business schools made the list.
I realized that after his email at 9:06 AM, not a single email was sent out till about 6 PM. Very unusual for a Monday. Perhaps everyone at school was mulling the bad news, and working on getting a higher spot next year...???
Oh well, it's still a good school, and we are still No.1 in Canada, and we placed 6th in Finance.
Monday, January 28, 2008
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Wait... the FT ranks UK schools highly?? Shocking! Damn Brits. ;) Rankings are frustrating, no worries.
higher salary of the 2004 intake.. bleh its more like mba grads in canada are underpaid when compared to other countries (thus the lower weighted salary)... you have more indian and chinese b-schools in the rankings- cause their grads are paid well...
so instead of looking at the rankings as an institutional issue its more of an issue with canada...
Rotman is 6th in Finance and yet I'm having a hard time getting a finance internship!
V
HT - yea, I know there is definitely a bias towards english schools but some of these schools I hadn't even heard of!
V - yea, Rotman grads aren't paid as much.. noticed that Ivey grads are paid more!! Abt interviews.. your perseverance will pay off :)
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