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About Montreal

Montreal is a wonderful place to live and to study. A gateway to North America, its typical New World vitality blends perfectly with its unique approach to life. It’s a bilingual city where you’ll hear French and English spoken everywhere, along with some 35 other languages and many well-established cultural communities, from Italian to Chinese, Greek and Spanish-speaking.

The city’s international flavour is a definite asset for multinationals and organizations, many of which have chosen to locate their head offices here. In fact, 70 organizations and 80 international financial centres, including the World Trade Centre Montréal, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Société internationale de télécommunications aéronautiques (SITA), all call Montreal home. The UNESCO Statistics Institute moved into the Decelles Pavilion of HEC Montréal in November 2001.

Montreal is fourth in North America in terms of the number of jobs per capita in the high-tech industry (study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, October 2000) and fifth in the world as a hub for new technologies, on a par with New York and Seattle and out in front of Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo (according to the US magazine Wired, July 2000). It is the second-largest aerospace city in the world, and eighth in North America in the biopharmaceuticals sector. With its four universities, Montreal has more university students per capita than any other North American city. And it is first in Canada and fourth in North America as a venue for international conferences.

Montreal has so much to offer: vast green spaces, charming neighbourhoods that recall its European origins, and its metro (subway) system, nearly 30 km of underground lines linking the main office towers with the many shopping centres downtown. The exceptional quality of life comes with a surprisingly low price tag–one of the lowest costs of living in all of North America, largely because of the affordable housing.

You can count on a warm welcome. Montreal invites you to leap into a whirl of cultural and sports activities, summer and winter. There’s no end to the bistros, pubs, restaurants, hip clubs and exciting discotheques, with something for every taste and every budget.
 

Population: 3.4 million
 

Average Temperature
January : -14oC (min) / -6oC (max)
April: 2oC (min) / 10oC (max)
July: 16oC (min) / 26oC (max)
October: 5oC (min) / 13oC (max)
 

Precipitation
Average annual rainfall: 723 mm
Average annual snowfall: 235 cm
 

Main Cultural and Sports Events
Grand Prix
Tennis Masters Series Montreal
Fête des Neiges de Montréal (winter festival)
International Jazz Festival
Just for Laughs Festival
Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
Montreal World Film Festival
 

Useful Links
Tourisme Montréal: www.tourism-montreal.org
Tourisme Québec : www.bonjourquebec.com
Canadian Tourism Commission: www.canadatourism.com

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HEC Montréal at a Glance

Tradition, modernity, leadership and international perspective. Words that sum up the very essence of HEC Montréal. Founded in 1907 by the Chambre de Commerce de Montréal, the School has become one of the top institutions management training and research in Canada, thanks to the quality of its teaching. HEC Montréal is a pioneer in many fields. It has made an enviable international reputation for itself, welcoming students from over 60 countries.

Our faculty includes over 220 career professors, trained at leading European and North American universities, backed up by over 400 lecturers with recognized expertise in their fields. Their research, conducted through 41 chairs, centres and groups, contributes to expanding management knowledge and improving management practices, both in Canada and abroad.

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Access Plan: http://www.hec.ca/en/generalinfo/access.html

Facts and Figures
 

• First North American school to hold the three accreditations AACSB international, EQUIS and AMBA.

• Over 11,000 students, of whom 1,000 are international students from some sixty countries.

• 33 management study programs, from BBA to PhD.

• An active worldwide network of 42,000 alumni.

• 17 chairs and 24 research and study centres and groups that strenghten the curriculum.

• A multilingual approach, with some courses offered in English and Spanish in addition to the French curriculum, as well as French workshops and courses in business English and business Spanish.

• Canada’s largest and most prestigious international exchange program, involving partnerships with 60 universities and major management schools in 23 countries.

• International leadership in integrating technology into the classroom.

• One of the world’s foremost bilingual business libraries, renowned for its extensive electronic holdings.

• One of the best-equipped trading rooms of any university, updated with real-time financial data by the Bloomberg and Reuters agencies.

• Rated as one of the top 100 in the world by the Wall Street Journal in the 2004 edition of the Guide to the Top Buiness Schools and one of the 18 best MBA programs outside the United States, according to the MBA 2002 classification by BusinessWeek.

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Transportation

From the airport to the hotel (Downtown Montréal)

Shuttle
L’Aérobus is the shuttle service from the airport to downtown Montreal hotels. Between 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m., departure is every 20 minutes. The cost is $13.00 per person one-way, and $22.75 for a return trip. Advance reservations are not necessary.

Taxi and Limousine Services
For rapid and convenient access to downtown Montreal, use the available taxi or limousine services. No reservation is needed from the Montréal-Trudeau Airport.  Visa, MasterCard and American Express are accepted. Some drivers accept American funds. However, provincial rules specify that clients must pay in Canadian dollars. The rates below include taxes and are subject to change without notice:

Taxi: $31.00
Limousine: $47.70

Car Rental
Montréal-Trudeau Airport

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