The HEC Montréal MBA Makes Forbes Best Business School Ranking for the Third Time

The HEC Montréal MBA Makes Forbes Best Business School Ranking for the Third TimeMONTREAL, Aug. 27 /CNW Telbec/ - The HEC Montréal MBA has made it intothe Forbes biennial ranking of the top non-US MBAs for the third straighttime. The detailed results will be published in the next issue of theprestigious magazine, due out this week. The ranking is based on the return on investment for graduates, fiveyears after earning their MBA. This year, Forbes sent questionnaires to 18,500year 2002 graduates from 102 schools around the world. "Since 2003, our MBA has done very well not only in the Forbesinternational ranking, but also in the last two biennial BusinessWeek lists,in 2004 and 2006," notes MBA Director Jean Talbot. "Not to mention that italso made the Which MBA? guide published by The Economist in 2006. We are veryproud of our international standing, proof of our constant efforts to maintainour leadership." In this year's ranking of the top non-US programs, Forbes made adistinction between one- and two-year programs for the first time. As rated by Forbes, the HEC Montréal MBA shares the internationalspotlight with the one-year programs offered by the following schools, bycountry:
<< - Canada: Queen's - Spain: Instituto de Empresa - France: INSEAD - Italy: SDA Bocconi - United Kingdom: Cambridge, City University (Cass), Cranfield, Lancaster, Oxford (Said) - Switzerland: IMD >>
HEC Montréal
Canada's first business school, founded in 1907, HEC Montréal iscelebrating its 100th anniversary in 2007. The School now offers over30 management programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels,and welcomes about 3,300 international or permanent resident students,representing 28% of the student body, from roughly 100 countries. It has some250 career professors and is a leader in research, with some fifty researchchairs, centres and groups. HEC Montréal was the first school in North Americato be granted the three most prestigious international accreditations in itsfield: AACSB International, EQUIS and AMBA. Its alumni network is more than57,000 strong.