First business school in Canada
prestigious accreditations
French-language Ashoka U Changemaker Campus
1st French-language campus in the world to receive this designation (2019)
and 6th in the world theQS Best Student Cities ranking (2019)
2019 placement rates for HEC Montréal graduates:
BUSINESS PROGRAMS FROM UNDERGRADUATE TO PHD
3 LANGUAGE STREAMS
in every area of business, on-site, hybrid format or online
5 of which give access to Master’s programs (conditions apply)
EXECUTIVE MBA
Master’s level, 1 offered in English
Students
international students from 144 COUNTRIES
|
UNDERGRADUATE |
10,869 |
|---|---|
|
4,327 |
|
|
5,936 |
|
|
606 |
|
|
MASTER'S LEVEL |
4,183 |
|
88 |
|
|
296 |
|
|
1,879 |
|
|
1,552 |
|
|
368 |
|
|
PHD LEVEL |
128 |
|
128 |
|
|
TOTAL |
15,180 |
Figures as at October 15, 2020
|
Undergraduate |
2,979 |
|
Master’s level |
1,077 |
|
PhD level |
88 |
|
TOTAL |
4,144 |
|---|
Figures as at October 15, 2020
| Africa | 39.91% |
| Europe | 36.12% |
| Central and South America | 9.75% |
| Asia | 11.27% |
| United States and Mexico | 1.79% |
| Oceania | 1.16% |
faculty members specializing in every area of business
Our faculty members are respected educators who are dedicated to sharing their knowledge and to training the next generation of professionals.
By department |
300 |
|---|---|
| International Business | 16 |
| Applied Economics | 24 |
| Entrepreneurship and Innovation | 14 |
| Finance | 26 |
| Logistics and Operations Management | 21 |
| Human Resources Management | 18 |
| Management | 53 |
| Marketing | 24 |
| Accounting | 46 |
| Management Sciences | 33 |
| Information Technologies | 25 |
Figures as at October 1, 2020
by rank |
|
|---|---|
| Full professors | 99 |
| Associate professors | 85 |
| Assistant professors | 50 |
| Guest and visiting faculty | 1 |
| Full-time lecturers | 65 |
|
Other (Non-tenure track guest and visiting professors, researchers, associate and affiliate professors) |
55 |
Figures as at October 1, 2020
Statistics |
|
|---|---|
| % of international professors | 47.3% |
| % with a PhD | 78.0% |
| % of women | 37.7% |
| Average age | 48.6 |
| Number hired in the past 5 years | 117 |
Figures as at October 1, 2020
members of staff
| Managers | 84 |
| Professionnals and research staff | 278 |
| Clerical | 127 |
| Technical | 128 |
| Trades | 60 |
| TOTAL | 677 |
Figures as of October 15, 2020
Alumni
gENEROUS DONORS
|
UNDERGRADUATE |
|
|---|---|
|
BBA |
1,080 |
|
B.Gest |
210 |
|
Certificates |
1,965 |
|
Short programs |
165 |
|
TOTAL |
3,420 |
|
MASTER'S LEVEL |
|
|---|---|
|
MBA and EMBA |
244 |
|
Master’s degrees |
585 |
|
DESS |
645 |
|
Short programs |
108 |
|
TOTAL |
1,582 |
|
PHD LEVEL |
|
|---|---|
|
PhD |
21 |
|
TOTAL |
21 |
Figures as at October 15, 2020
96% are HEC Montréal alumni
Source of donations:
in pledges raised by the HEC Montréal Foundation in 2019, to go toward:
Figures as at December 31, 2019
The country’s most extensive international exchange program for management students
occasions for students, firms and managers to gain international experience
spent time exploring another country
The exchange program was cancelled for fall 2020, and because of border closures participants from our different programs were unable to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
|
Student mobility (no. of partners) |
Programs | Incoming students | Outgoing students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange programs (153)* | BBA, MSc | 146 | 137 |
| Visiting students (9) | BBA, MSc, MBA | 0 | 0 |
| Summer school (1) | BBA | 0 | 0 |
| Dual degree (5) | BBA, MSc | 9 | 12 |
| International track (5) | BBA | 39 | - |
*Figures include partners from the QTEM network.
| NUMBER OF PARTNER INSTITUTIONS | |
|---|---|
| Europe | 82 |
| Asia | 33 |
| Latin America | 18 |
| Oceania | 18 |
| Canada et United States | 8 |
| Near-East | 3 |
| Africa |
5 |
| Type of program | Number of activities | Number of participants |
|---|---|---|
| Customized international executive training | 14 | 394 |
| Off-campus degree program* | 25 | 484 |
| Educator training | 6 | 26 |
| Learning Expedition | 32 | 735 |
| Other | 4 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 81 | 1,639 |
Figures as at October 15, 2020
*Courses in BBA 2+2 and DESS programs delivered at our partner institutions.
| Africa | 23% |
| Middle-East | 14% |
| Europe | 29% |
| Oceania | 11% |
| Asia | 15% |
Since international travel was impossible during the COVID-19 pandemic, HEC Montréal developed four virtual Campus Abroad courses, allowing students to interact with managers and representatives of organizations in other lands and better understand their business environments.
Largest bilingual business library in the country
programs for businesses, executives and managers
executives, professionals and managers trained every year
In the world’s Top 110 executive education schools
A member of UNICON, the largest global consortium of business schools in the field of executive education. UNICON has an elite 110 high-profile members in more than 30 countries.
Financial backing for more than 175 start-ups for a value of $387.1 million since its launch in 2017
The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a coaching, accelerator and development program for high-potential technology startups.
Next AI is a development program for entrepreneurs featuring structured education to support innovative entrepreneurial ideas, offered in Montréal and Toronto.
In the top 100 business schools worldwide and 3rd French-language business school in the world for contributions to research
research chairs
in research funding
University of Texas Dallas Research Rankings (2019-2020)
36 research chairs, including
48 invention disclosures since 2002, including 3 new invention disclosures in 2019–2020
23 technologies transferred to industry (or being evaluated), with 19 still active
3 spin-off companies
Artificial intelligence – Laurent Charlin and Jian Tang
Their research focuses on developing models of complex user preferences for recommendations using deep learning.
Behavioural economics – Pierre-Carl Michaud and the Retirement and Savings Institute team
Their research looks at analyses of behavioural economics based on high-performance computing for behavioural economic analyses of large proprietary microdata sets.
More than ever, faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, HEC Montréal is showing its leadership when it comes to management research. Some fifty research projects on subjects relating to the COVID-19 pandemic are underway, bringing together about twenty partners, with concrete applications in a variety of fields ranging from economics to trade, logistics, work organization, medical research and managing the healthcare system and technological change.
subscribers (paper and digital)
unique visitors a month
In addition to its paper version, Gestion is now available in a digital version (Apple Store and Google Play) and on the Web (revuegestion.ca).
The magazine has a worldwide business readership of over 23,000 subscribers, and its website receives 36,000 unique visitors a month.
