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From Vancouver to California – All about Rotman Career Treks

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Michael Moses - Assistant Director, Recruitment & Admissions

This weekend, Rotman students will be heading to Silicon Valley for one of Rotman’s popular “Career Treks.” What are these career treks, you may be asking?

 

Well this is an initiative our Career Centre created a few years ago as an opportunity:

  • For students to get to know other cities in the world as potential places to work post-MBA
  • To learn about some of the most prominent companies in those cities
  • To network with alumni face-to-face in those cities
  • To get face time with business executives at some of the most prominent companies in those cities

In about 3 years Rotman has growth this initiative from one career trek to 6! Here is where Rotman students will have visited on career treks this year:

  • Calgary, AlbertaRotman career trek students sitting on a bus en-route to their next company visit
  • New York City
  • Mississauga
  • Silicon Valley (this is the one starting this weekend)
  • Vancouver
  • Los Angeles

And we expect to be adding even more in the next few months!

A typical career trek’s activities might look something like this:

  • Day 1:
    • Arrival
    • City tour
    • Socializing with Rotman peers
  • Day 2:
    • Visit 4 companies and network with executives for a few hours at each company during the day
    • Evening reception
  • Day 3:
    • Visit 4 more companies for a few hours each during the day
    • Evening reception
  • Day 4:
    • Visit 1 more company in the morning
    • Flight back to Toronto in the afternoon

Pretty exciting stuff! If you are interested in learning more, definitely drop us a line at mba@rotman.utoronto.ca

Exciting News – New Rotman Full Time MBA Scholarship Opportunities

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Niki da SilvaI’m thrilled to be back in the office after a great holiday break, especially since I’m able to announce some fantastic new scholarship news to kick off 2014!

These new scholarship initiatives are all applicable to students starting at Rotman this September.  The School continues to strive to attact the very best talent to Rotman and we believe these new programs will make Rotman even more attractive to the best and brightest candidates from around the world. So here are the details!

Regional Awards – To support the active recruiting our team conducts in key regions around the world, we are extending a $40K scholarship to one exceptional candidate from each of the following regions:

  1. Canada
  2. USA/Mexico/Caribbean
  3. Latin America
  4. Europe
  5. Middle East/Africa
  6. India
  7. Asia/China

Rotman Problem Solving Challenge Awards –  After its successful introduction last year, we are excited to officially expand the awards available to prospective candidates, applicants, and incoming Rotman students who participate in our Rotman Problem Solving Challenge weekend (you can read more about the event here: https://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/admissions/.  We will be offering the following award categories:

  1. Individual Prizes: First place overall wins a full scholarship ($90K), second place overall wins $40K, third place overall wins $15K and the top individual presentation will receive $10K with the top individual written submission receiving $5K
  2. Group Prizes: First place group wins $5000/person, second place wins $2000/person and third place wins $1000/person

Forte Foundation Fellowships – As part of our strong committment to increasing female enrollment at Rotman and as a proud member School of the Forte Foundation, we will be selecting two of our top female candidates as Forte fellows – each will receive an entrance award of $40K.

MGA/MBA Award – We have an amazing combined Program with the Munk School of Global Affairs for students interested in earning both a Masters in Global Affairs and an MBA. Until now, there hasn’t been any funding dedicated exclusively to this candidate pool but we are announcing a $30K scholarship for the top MGA/MBA student with funding to be awarded later in the Spring after the final Program application deadline.

All of these Programs represent incremental funding, and we will of course continue all of our existing scholarships which generally range from $10K to more than half tuition.  All applicants will be automatically considered when submitting an application for all of our scholarship opportunities (these new awards and existing scholarships.) We recognize the ongoing need to provide competitive entrance awards to Rotman students and are committed to increasing both the percentage of our class receiving an award, and the amounts of awards offered at Rotman.  The MBA is a significant, but tremendously positive investment, and I hope these new Programs may represent the opportunity candidates are looking for to make 2014 the year they pursue the MBA!

 

 

Introducing the 2014 Rotman Problem Solving Challenge!

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Michael Moses - Assistant Director, Recruitment & AdmissionsHappy new year! As many of you finalize your applications in time for the round 2 admission deadline you might be thinking, “is there anything else I can do to improve my chances of getting in?” Or perhaps you were already admitted and are eager to get a head-start on the Rotman experience.

To cater to those interests and give prospective and incoming students the opportunity to experience Rotman’s unique model-based problem solving approach in action, we are introducing for the second year, the Rotman Problem Solving Challenge!

Here is a clip of some current Rotman students who participated in the event last year, talking about their experience at it:

Beyond the great opportunities and benefits that Michael, Viral, Jonathan and Alex mentioned, some other things you can expect during this year’s Rotman Problem Solving Challenge Weekend:

  • Networking opportunities with current Rotman students, industry professionals and Rotman alumni
  • The opportunity to win a scholarship such as full tuition to the Rotman Full-Time MBA program
  • Experience Toronto with your future classmates

Stay tuned to the Rotman Problem Solving Challenge website in the next few weeks for complete details on:

  • The big, messy, unstructured problem that prospective and incoming students will be tackling
  • Judging Panel
  • Key dates and deadlines
  • When registration is open (while you can see the registration button the page now, it is not live yet. Not to worry; we will announce when we will begin accepting entries!)

Good luck with your submissions and looking forward to seeing you on campus!