Montreal's École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Canada's first management school, was founded in 1907 by the Chambre de commerce de Montréal. The school is affiliated with the Université de Montréal and is considered to be one of the country's top business schools, and is AMBA accredited. HEC Montréal is the only business school in North America to hold the three most prestigious accreditations in management education: AACSB International (United States), EQUIS (Europe) and AMBA (United Kingdom). Over 11,000 students are enrolled in its 33 management programs, from the undergraduate to postgraduate level, taught by some 240 professors. The School is a leader in research, with some fifty research centres, including 22 chairs, conducts projects worldwide and trains executives and managers. Its alumni network is more than 50,000 strong. HEC Montréal hosts Canada's largest and most prestigious international exchange program, involving partnerships with 66 universities and major management schools in 26 countries. It maintains an active presence in over 40 countries, and through its International Projects the school exerts its international leadership. HEC Montréal was among the first Canadian universities to integrate technology into the classroom. The home of one of the world's foremost bilingual business libraries, HEC Montréal is renowned for its extensive electronic holdings, including one of the best-equipped trading rooms of any university, updated with real-time financial data by the Bloomberg, E-Signal and Reuters agencies.

In 2002 Business Week ranked HEC Montréal as a top 20 international business school, and in 2004 it was ranked as the number 10 best international business school ^*. (Note that BusinessWeek does the ranking every two years. The next ranking will be published at the end of 2006). The HEC Montréal MBA was listed as the 20th best non-US MBA in the 2005 Forbes biennial ranking of business schools.

The school has officially been known as HEC Montréal since 2002; the name was changed to differentiate it from institutions such as HEC Paris and HEC Lausanne, and to enhance the schools profile on the world stage.

HEC Montréal has been turning out managers for close to a century and was the first business school in Canada to offer evening classes for adults, in 1917. In the last three decades it has undertaken several research programmes, in addition to training its students in the craft of administration and management.

The language of instruction at HEC Montréal is French (although some courses are offered in English and Spanish) and the business culture is North American.

In 1998 HEC Montréal was also one of the first schools to make the use of laptop computers mandatory to all new students in the Bachelor of Business Administration program.

Academic Departments

Department of Accounting Studies, Department of Finance, Department of Human Resources Management, Department of Information Technologies, Department of International Business, Department of Management, Department of Management Sciences, Department of Marketing, Department of Logistics and Operations Management, Institute of Applied Economics (IEA).

External links

• HEC Montréal
• 100th Anniversary Site
• University of Montreal
• HEC Montreal bulletin board by Reseau Etudiant

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