An MBA that advances careers: HEC Montréal in the LinkedIn Top 100
September 24, 2025
The HEC Montréal MBA is featured in the 2025 ranking of Top MBA Programs, a list published by LinkedIn News, which highlights the 100 best MBA programs worldwide in terms of career development.
This ranking, based exclusively on LinkedIn data, analyzes the career paths of hundreds of thousands of MBA graduates around the world. It specifically evaluates their access to leadership positions, the strength of their professional network, their leadership potential and the diversity of recent cohorts.
To be eligible for this ranking, programs must meet rigorous criteria:
- They must be accredited by AACSB or EQUIS;
- They must offer full-time education (part-time MBAs and EMBAs are excluded from the analysis);
- They must have at least 1500 alumni, with at least 400 from the 2019 to 2024 cohorts.
Methodology
The ranking is based on several criteria grouped under five pillars:
- Hiring and demand tracks job placement rates and labour market demand, focusing on recent graduate cohorts from 2019 to 2024. This assessment is based on LinkedIn hiring data and recruiter InMail outreach data.
- Ability to advance tracks promotions among recent cohorts. It also tracks how quickly all past alumni have reached director or VP-level leadership roles. This assessment is based on standardized job titles.
- Network strength tracks how connected alumni of the same program are to each other; network quality of the recent cohorts (2019–2024), measured by average connections alumni have with individuals in director-level positions or above; and network growth rate of the recent cohort before and after graduation.
- Leadership potential tracks the percentage of alumni with post-MBA entrepreneurship or C-suite experience.
- Gender diversity measures gender parity within recent graduate cohorts.