Riz’s Rotman Blog

For anyone who didn’t notice, Rotman has relaunched their website. In general, this is a huge improvement over the old site. The new site has a lot cleaner look, things are more organized, and navigation is a lot simpler (no silly fly-outs). There are a few things I don’t like (e.g. the cluttered look of the news area, the search bar only being on the first page, a little too much scrolling on some pages,…) but my complaints are minor.

Hopefully this is the first step in a total overhaul of their web presence, especially R-world.

Rotman is offering the Finance pre-course in an online format this year. I examined my calendar and realized that if I took the online version, I’d virtually have an extra week off–Done!

The one disappointing thing is that the cost of the online course is the same as the IRL (in real life) course. Using the Internet should result in the school incurring much lower costs than the IRL course. I know they are just trying to make $$ but why not look at how much $ you’re making off the IRL course and then calculate the finance course cost using a formula like 1.3*IRL profit + online cost. The school will still be making more money from the people taking the online course and encouraging people to take the online course since it’s probably cheaper.

Maybe I’m just looking at this the wrong way. That and I’m just looking to save some money.

I’ll let you know how it goes. I plan on taking the course on/around next weekend.