Online MBA Degree

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Program Fees

Over the course of the four-year program, JD/MBA students pay first year program fees to the Faculty of Law and second year tuition fees to the Rotman School. Students pay the program fees corresponding to the higher of the two faculties’ fees in third and fourth years.

While this might appear to be a large outlay, students should consider the value of the individual degrees and the benefits of the condensed program. Students typically find opportunities in business and law during their summers in the program, which helps with their financing. Moreover, the financial aid officers at both faculties are ready and willing to help students find ways to finance their education though university and government assistance programs.

Domestic students entering the JD/MBA program in September, 2007 will pay the following fees over the duration of the program:
Year 1 $17,280*
Year 2 $31,500*
Year 3 $31,500*
Year 4 $31,500*
Total Program fee: $111,780*

There may be additional incidental/ancillary fees levied for enrolment in specific courses or for individual circumstances. Incidental/ancillary fees, which include campus fees and student society fees, cover the fall and winter terms only. Please check your invoice/account.

*NOTE: These are estimated domestic students’ tuition fees and are subject to Governing Council approval. For complete domestic students’ tuition fees information please refer to the University of Toronto ’s Tuition Fee Schedule.

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Admission Requirements

Engineering students may be accustomed to course grades as the primary type of admission requirement. However, management programs tend to look at “soft” skills as well as “hard” skills. By third year, some evidence of these soft skills should be available, from summer jobs, extracurricular activities, PEY, etc. Note in particular that managers are, among other things, leaders. Leaders must be able to communicate effectively. Therefore, there is also an emphasis on communication skills as an admissions requirement to the Skoll Program. This is also reflected in the interview process and in the GMAT exam.

Strong Academic Performance:
A minimum of a B+ (77%) average is required in each of the four most recent Engineering terms prior to application. (If you have one term slightly below 77% and all your other entrance parameters are golden, you should still apply.) You need not provide your own transcripts; they will be provided by the Office of the Registrar of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

GMAT: Students must write the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) . This exam is used by all business schools in North America (and much of the rest of the world as well). Note that all components of the GMAT score are important: “quantitative,” “verbal,” and “writing.”

It is emphasized that the GMAT exam is the long-lead-time item in this application. As such, it should be written as soon as possible, preferably in the summer between Year II and Year III, or during a PEY (if any) after Year III. Most students find that some significant preparation for this test is advisable. See the GMAT

Although part of the GMAT score is available almost immediately upon writing, the AWA (Analytical Writing Assessment) component is mailed to the applicant (and to the University) some two weeks after the test. A strong GMAT score, consistent with the scores of MBA students accepted by the Rotman school, will be required. Although GMAT scores vary somewhat from year to year, a minimum score of 650 should provide a useful target for Skoll students. IMPORTANT: ‘University of Toronto, Skoll Program’ (Code BTD-KS-37) should be selected as the U of T destination for your GMAT results.

Résumé: In addition to academic data, be sure to give relevant professional background, and make certain to highlight any entrepreneurial or leadership experience. You may also include extracurricular activities.

Letters of Reference: Three letters of reference are required, at least one of which should be from an academic, and at least one of which should be from an employer, based on the letter-of-reference format specified in the Skoll Application Form.

Interview: Applicants may be requested to attend an interview conducted by representatives of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the Rotman School of Management.

Essays: These are described in the Skoll Application Form (available from the Skoll Program Office).

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Engineering-MBA Program
Uniting Science, Technology and Business Skills

The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto have recently established a program unequalled in Canada to provide a fast track for gifted students to earn their Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a professional experience year, a management internship, and an MBA in six years and eight months. The Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program is the only one in the country that offers these two degrees in one program. Highlights of the Program Include:

Opportunity to gain business experience and contacts, managerial skills, and facility with emerging technologies.
Global perspective.
A capstone course, “The Technology/Management Interface,” jointly developed and taught in the final year by professors from engineering and management.
Ability to graduate in several years fewer than the conventional path.
A program unmatched in Canada.

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Program Fees

Over the course of the four-year program, JD/MBA students pay first year program fees to the Faculty of Law and second year tuition fees to the Rotman School. Students pay the program fees corresponding to the higher of the two faculties’ fees in third and fourth years.

While this might appear to be a large outlay, students should consider the value of the individual degrees and the benefits of the condensed program. Students typically find opportunities in business and law during their summers in the program, which helps with their financing. Moreover, the financial aid officers at both faculties are ready and willing to help students find ways to finance their education though university and government assistance programs.

Domestic students entering the JD/MBA program in September, 2007 will pay the following fees over the duration of the program:
Year 1 $17,280*
Year 2 $31,500*
Year 3 $31,500*
Year 4 $31,500*
Total Program fee: $111,780*

There may be additional incidental/ancillary fees levied for enrolment in specific courses or for individual circumstances. Incidental/ancillary fees, which include campus fees and student society fees, cover the fall and winter terms only. Please check your invoice/account.

*NOTE: These are estimated domestic students’ tuition fees and are subject to Governing Council approval. For complete domestic students’ tuition fees information please refer to the University of Toronto ’s Tuition Fee Schedule.

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Admission

Students applying to the JD/MBA program must be admitted to both the Law and Management faculties. As such, a separate application to each faculty must be submitted. Students who have completed the first year of either the JD or MBA program may apply for admission to the combined JD/MBA Program by meeting the normal application and admission requirement for the other faculty.

Faculty of Law Admissions

The Faculty believes that the qualities of mind and personality necessary to satisfy its requirements are:

(a) high intelligence
(b) sound judgment
(c) the capacity and motivation for demanding intellectual effort
(d) the capacity and motivation to engage in sophisticated legal reasoning, and
(e) an understanding and sensitivity to human interaction.

As evidence of these qualities, the Faculty looks at a number of factors. These include: academic achievement; Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score; non-academic achievement the response to disadvantage due to adverse personal or socio-economic circumstances or to barriers faced by cultural (including racial or ethnic) or linguistic minorities; motivation and involvement in academic and non-academic activities; and the impact of temporary or permanent physical disabilities.

In recent years, successful regular applicants had a median LSAT score in the 95th percentile, and a median cumulative undergraduate academic record of 84% (in the case of applicants with 4 years of undergraduate experience, this statistic is based on the best 3 of the 4 years). Very few candidates are admitted with LSAT scores below the 85th percentile and cumulative undergraduate academic records below 78%, unless their backgrounds, other qualifications, or personal accomplishments would, in the opinion of the Admissions Committee, contribute specially and significantly to the class.

For more details, please see the Faculty of Law’s Calendar or go to www.law.utoronto.ca. The official application and law calendar are available through the Ontario Law School Application Services.

Rotman Admissions

The Rotman Admissions Committee seeks outstanding candidates who possess the following traits:

(a) the potential to become exceptional managers
(b) demonstrated leadership capabilities
(c) strong motivation in academic and professional pursuits
(d) maturity
(e) breadth of purpose
(f) a desire to have an impact

Candidates are evaluated on a total portfolio of performance, personal characteristics and life experiences. This includes: a minimum B average in final year of undergraduate studies; Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) results of at least 550; and three professional or academic reference letters. Work experience is not a requirement, however the committee expects your academic and personal background to reflect diversity and experience

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto
Program Overview

At the completion of the four-year integrated program, the successful student is awarded both the Juris Doctor and the Master of Business Administration degree. Students typically begin the program in the Faculty of Law. The first year of study is identical to that of any first-year law students. The second year of the program is spent at the Rotman School, where students are enrolled in the same curriculum as first year MBA students (i.e. no time is spent in courses at the Law School.) The third and fourth years of the program are a hybrid of legal and business studies.
Students must achive a “B” standing from those first year courses taken at the Faculty of Law and a “B+” standing from those first year courses at the Rotman School in order to progress to the upper years of the program.

Students may not take any courses for credit outside of the faculties of Law and Management except on an approved exchange program with permission from both faculties

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

COMBINED DEGREES:
JD/MBA
Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA
Collaborative Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Collaborative Program in Environmental Studies

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto
Students are expected to formally enrol in the Capital Markets Workshop (MGT 3034H) in their third year. They will satisfy their distributional requirement in finance by taking three courses in a stream approved by the Rotman School of Management (e.g. Financial Engineering) drawn from the second-year MBA courses (i.e. MGT 2300H - 2308H). NOTE: There is some flexibility in the timing of the courses in the economics and management distributional requirements. Students are encouraged to organize these six courses over the second and third years in a way that will allow them to satisfy all of their course requirements by Christmas of their third year.

They will also be required to participate in the Graduate Research Seminar (ECO 4060Y), a year later than students in the Economics Ph.D. stream, but will otherwise face the same deadlines. This means they will be expected to come up with a “second year paper” proposal by February of their third year and find a supervisor and finish this paper by September of their fourth year. The second year paper will be presented in the Fall term in the relevant faculty workshop (e.g. MGT 3034). By January of the fourth year, students must present a thesis proposal in the ECO 4060Y workshop.

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto
Year One course of PhD in Management & Economics

Students complete the following courses:

ECO 1011H - Math Stat Review
ECO 2020H - Micro Theory I
ECO 2030H - Micro Theory II
ECO 2400H - Econometrics I
ECO 2401H - Econometrics II
MGT 3030H - Finance Theory I
MGT 3031H - Finance Theory II

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Overview
The University of Toronto offers a collaborative PhD in Management and Economics that is an extension of the programs offered by the Department of Economics and the Rotman School.

Applicants must have completed, or be in the process of completing a Master’s degree in Economics, with an average of at least B+ . (As not all Master’s degrees are equivalent to a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto, applicants should refer to the equivalent qualifications chart for guidance.) These minimum requirements, however, do not imply automatic acceptance into the program. Each application must be supported by letters of reference from three instructors, including at least two from the applicant’s instructors in the M.A. program.

Applicants without a degree from a Canadian university are required to write the General GRE, and in some cases may be required to write the TOEFL.

The Ph.D. is a full-time program with only one admission date - September. Candidates are required to remain in full-time attendance for the first three years of the program.

A Ph.D. student is required to achieve at least B- standing in each course taken and must maintain an average of at least B+ throughout the Ph.D. program. If a required course is failed it must be repeated. Failure of one course is allowed but the failure of the same course twice or of two courses will result in the student withdrawing from the program. Students who do not maintain a B+ average will be subject to an automatic review and may be asked to leave the program.

If a theory comprehensive examination is failed in June, it must be re-taken in August of the same year. Students who fail a theory comprehensive examination twice must withdraw from the program. If a field comprehensive examination is failed in May, it must be re-taken in August of the same year. Students who fail a field comprehensive examination twice must choose another major field.

Students enrolled in this program have two major fields of study: economics and one of the Rotman School’s specializations. Any student applying to the Ph.D. program is eligible to apply to this program. They must, however, satisfy the admission requirements stated above. Once an applicant has been accepted to the Ph.D. in Economics, their application will be forwarded to the Coordinator of the Collaborative Program. The program of study will be managed by the home department. Any financial support will be awarded by the home department.