QS MBA by Specialization Rankings: our School makes the top 100 in 6 disciplines

Classed 9^th globally for Operations Management

November 13, 2020

HEC Montréal’s MBA continues to shine internationally, this time in the context of the 2021 World University Rankings by MBA Specialization, discerned by British organization Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Regardless of offering a generalist business administration program, our School’s highly regarded reputation and strengths in research have come through in securing us rankings for disciplines in which our graduates have immersed themselves. HEC Montréal has also been classified in the top 100 for 6 disciplines, including 1 classification in the top 10.

• Operations Management: 9^th
• Marketing: 26^th  
• Information Management: 41^st
• Entrepreneurship: 51^st-100^th
• Technology Management: 51^st-100^th

 Unveiled in September of 2020, these rankings are based on the Global MBA Rankings 2021 carried out by QS, and in which the School’s MBA classed 9^th in Canada and 141^st-150^th in the world. These results account for 25% of the analysis.

The balance of scoring for rankings is established in accordance with the following criteria, respectively for each management discipline evaluated by the QS (Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Management, Operations Management, Technology and Marketing):

• Graduate placement rate – drawn directly from the Global MBA Rankings 2021
• Reputation of the institution vis-à-vis employers – based on QS Global Employer Survey responses of the past 5 years
• Influence of research (quotes by publication and Index H) – measured through the Scopus database

It’s important to acknowledge that in 2019, the Montréal School’s MBA ranked 46^th in Operations Management, and that the QS didn’t establish any classifications for 2020.

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