HEC Montréal
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| HEC Montréal | |
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| École des Hautes Études Commerciales | |
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| Established: | 1907 |
| Type: | Public |
| Endowment: | $ 127 million |
| Director: | Michel Patry |
| Faculty: | 250 |
| Students: | 12 000 |
| Location: | Montreal, Québec, Canada |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Affiliations: | Université de Montréal, UACC |
| Website: | www.hec.ca/en/ |
HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), the affiliated business school of the Université de Montréal, is the first management School of Canada. It holds accreditations from AACSB International (United States), EQUIS (Europe) and AMBA (United Kingdom), one of only two schools in North America to hold triple accreditation in management education.[citation needed] The full name of HEC Montreal was École des Hautes Études Commerciales; the school was renamed HEC Montréal in 2002. The name was standardized to differentiate it from the other HEC institutions such as HEC Paris and HEC Lausanne. Locally, the school is known as HEC (roughly pronounced "Ash-eh-say").
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[edit] History
HEC Montréal was founded in 1907 by the Chambre de commerce de Montréal and with the help of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007. HEC Montréal has fifty research centres, including 22 chairs. A decade ago, HEC Montréal was primarily known as a teaching institution, but recently has increased research output. Over 12,000 students are enrolled in its 33 management programs, taught by over 250 professors.
[edit] Programs
The School international outlook, hosts an international exchange program[citation needed], involving partnerships with 79 universities and major management schools in 28 countries. The program operates in over 40 countries. HEC Montréal has a trading rooms which is updated with real-time financial data by Bloomberg, E-Signal and Reuters. HEC Montréal made the use of laptop computers mandatory for its Bachelor of Business Administration students.
The major language of instruction at HEC Montréal is French, but many courses are offered in English and Spanish. The school offers its HEC MBA program both in English and French with an option to take several courses in Spanish. The Trilingual BBA program is offered in French, English and Spanish.
[edit] World rankings
The MBA Program of HEC Montreal has been ranked among the top international MBA programs by the major business publications. BusinessWeek has ranked HEC Montréal among the Top 10 International Business Schools in both 2006 and 2004, an improvement from a Top 20 ranking of 2002 (biennial rankings) [1]. HEC Montréal's MBA program was also listed among the Top 20 non-US MBA programs in Forbes' 2005 B-Schools rankings (biennial rankings) [2]. The school has also been ranked among the Top B-Schools by Wall Street Journal and the Economist Intelligence Unit (the business information arm of The Economist Group). HEC Montréal is a part of an elite group of 9 Canadian B-Schools reviewed by the http://www.canadianmba.com/. However, the school is notably absent from the Financial Times top 100 list.
[edit] Buildings
In 1996, HEC Montréal moved to an ultra-modern, futuristic $100-million building. It is situated at 3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine (map), next to the Université-de-Montréal Metro Station. The architect was the Romanian-born Dan S. Hanganu, who said about the design, "HEC Montréal is a temple of knowledge". "This building energizes people," said Jean-Marie Toulouse, former director of HEC Montréal, who called the school's former building "a bunker". The "bunker" is now used as a secondary building (called the Decelles Building), situated at 5255 Decelles (map).
[edit] Academic departments
Department of Accounting Studies
Department of Human Resources Management
Department of Information Technologies
Department of Management
Department of Marketing
Department of Logistics and Operations Management
[edit] External links
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