McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management now has various mini-MBA programs: Its executive development course, which will be offered starting at $3,000 in cities including Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa in 2015, condenses topics from MBA and executive MBA courses into eight days. Mini-MBAs, an MBA boot camp aimed mostly at middle managers, might seem like a new phenomenon, but they can be traced back in Canada to the late 1940s at McGill University in Montreal.
Jess, noting students attend nine days of classroom time, and work on their own and in groups. "I found it to be for myself, personally, probably just right," says Mr. A top-ranked MBA school (with tuition of about $32,905 this fall/winter in the two-year full-time program), Schulich began offering its new mini-MBA this year at a cost of $9,250. Jess started Schulich's Essentials of Management mini-MBA program last April and completed it in June, earning a certificate. At 49, with funding from his employer, Mr. Jess has taken numerous courses – in strategic management, logistics and critical thinking, for instance – at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto. "But after going to my head office in Florida, and after talking to a few people, I soon realized I'd be stuck if I didn't do more, but the time frame for a full MBA is pretty daunting – you need to commit, and if you still need to keep a full-time job and keep your family going, it would be pretty hard." Jess, who was hired 16 years ago by ConMed Linvatec Canada with just a high-school diploma. "To expand my skills, I've really worked hard and a former boss recognized that," says Mr.
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