HEC Montréal , is the independent affiliated business school of the Université de Montréal, and the oldest management School in Canada. It holds accreditations from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, one of three schools in North America to hold triple accreditation in management education. 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. The school is noted for its research in fields such as... finance, economics, logistics, information technologies and operations research. It is known for its international atmosphere, with one third of the students and 40% of professors coming from abroad, and favours a multilingual approach to business education, offering bilingual and trilingual bachelor's degrees, and graduate degrees both in English and in French. HEC Montréal was founded in 1907 by the Chambre de commerce de Montréal with the help of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007.
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| Location: | Montreal, Québec
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| Founded: | 1907 |
| School type: | Public university, Business school |
| Total enrollment: | 12,252 |
| Endowment: | $
127,000,000 |
| Colors: | Blue, Black, White |