HEC Montréal

HEC Montréal was founded in 1907 in the city of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada.

This university is classified among Canada's public business institutions and is recognised as the first management institution founded in Canada.

At HEC Montréal more than 100 study programmes are offered. Among the programmes offered in Montreal are bachelor's, master's and graduate programmes, including the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), the Master of Science in Management (MSc), Business Administration (MBA) and the PhD in Management.

In addition, HEC Montréal runs a joint Executive MBA programme with McGill University.

The Montreal university offers its programmes in both English and French, and its bachelor's, master's and doctoral students can also take advantage of the university's online study programme.

Montreal hosts about 15,000 students, roughly one third of whom are international students from 151 countries around the world.

Why HEC Montréal?

HEC Montréal has been ranked as the first management university in Canada.

In 2016 the university ranked first among Canadian business schools, and in 2015 it ranked 11th among non-business schools.

The university is among the few top universities in the field of business education and has also been ranked by Bloomberg BusinessWeek among the top 30 international business schools.

The university's MBA programmes are among the best in the world internationally in the rankings of Bloomberg Business, The Economist, The Princeton Review and Expansion.

The largest bilingual library in Canada is located at HEC Montréal.

The university's bilingualism and online courses create good study opportunities for students.

Daniel Paillé (Daniel Paillé), active in politics; François Legault (Joseph Léo François), former premier of Quebec; Jacques Parizeau (Jacques Parizeau), the twenty-sixth premier of Quebec; François Desjardins (François Desjardins), chief executive of Laurentian Bank; Anne-Marie Gélinas (Anne-Marie Gélinas), film producer and chief executive of EMAfilms; Jamel Eddine Gharbi (Jamel Eddine Gharbi), Tunisian politician and former Minister of Regional Development and Planning of Tunisia; Michel Patry (Michel Patry), economist and current director of HEC Montréal; Fatima Beyina-Moussa (Fatima Beyina-Moussa), chief executive of the Republic of the Congo's airline; and Dominique Anglade (Dominique Anglade), leader of the Liberal Party in Quebec, are all among the figures and celebrities who have completed at least one programme of study at this Montreal university.