PhD in Administration

Your PhD in short

Courses offered in French or English, depending on availability and the teachers in charge of conducting them.

Joint PhD program in administration with three other major participating universities: Concordia, McGill, and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). This is one of the world’s most important doctoral training centres in management.

Full-time courses that allow you to complete your studies in four years.

Tuition fees waived and competitive funding for the first four years of your studies.

12 specializations

Financial Engineering

Information Technology

International Business

Logistics and Operations Management

Management Science

Management, Strategy and Organization

Marketing

Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources

Individual supervision and acquisition of teaching skills

Supervision by an experienced faculty member who is deeply involved in research. This person will work closely with you throughout the program. A consulting librarian will also be there to assist you.

Improvement of your teaching skills by participating in workshops and collaborating with experienced teachers.

“It was an intellectually stimulating experience and a springboard for my career as a professor-researcher! I appreciated the faculty’s expertise and rigour, and how humble they were. The socialization and engagement activities really support success and personal growth. There is an overall sense of open-mindedness, integrity, and commitment. These values have stayed with me in my work in academia.”

–

Karima Afif, graduate of the PhD. Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Université Laval.

World-class research and faculty

36

research chairs, including 7 Canada Research Chairs

26

research and knowledge transfer units

Nearly

600

professors at the four partner universities

310

professors at HEC Montréal

46,2

research funding at HEC Montréal

Profile of the 140 doctoral candidates

70%

are international students or permanent residents

45%

are female

55%

are male

Nearly 500 degrees awarded by HEC Montréal

This represents almost half of the overall joint PhD program.
80% of graduates hold a teaching and/or research position in a university or research unit.
20% occupy senior management positions.

“I had the chance to work alongside some of the most prominent scholars in my field. This helped me find a postdoc position at a first-rate business school right after I graduated. As a data science expert, I am now using cutting-edge approaches to solve day-to-day pricing issues.”

–

Hosain Zaman, Graduate, Data Science Expert at Priceline.

HEC Montréal: Among the global élite

Founded in 1907, HEC Montréal was Canada’s first university-level business school.

It was the first in North America to earn the three most prestigious accreditations in its field:

Fewer than 124 business schools, and only two in Canada, hold this three-fold mark of distinction.

Montréal, a true university city

Greater Montréal is Canada’s university capital, with 11 university institutions and 313 600 students, 58 000 of them from abroad (in 2023). In fact, Montréal is North America’s second university city in terms of the number of students per inhabitant, after Boston.

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