Situated in the Quebec province of Canada, Montreal city has the highest population in that province and the second most populous city in the country. It was originally founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie or City of Marie and derives its name from the triple peaked hill Mount Royal, which is right at the center of the province and is located in an island on the St.Lawrence river. Some of the important places in this city are the Mount Royal, Notr-Dame Basilica of Montreal, Botanical Garden and Biodome.

A part of the Université de Montréal, the HEC Montréal is the graduate business school of this university and also has the distinction of being Canada’s first school of management. Established in 1907, this institution offers courses both in French and English languages. The students get a highly top class environment for learning, and HEC aspires itself to be in the top 5 business schools in Canada. International collaborations with educational institutions and internships with reputed companies in countries across the globe make this course a much sought after one.

Depending on your graduation, this M.Sc. in Global Supply Chain Management course duration will vary from 16 to 24 months (preparatory phase excluded) and is offered in two streams
1) Thesis Stream comprising 7 courses that earn you 21 credit points and Research Workshop Thesis which gives you 24 credit points. Both these get you a total program credit of 45 points. You can view the link in the next paragraph to know the various individual subjects that you need to study to earn the credit points.
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2) Supervised Project Stream comprising 12 courses that earn you 36 credit points and a Supervised Project that gives you 9 credit points. As mentioned above, use the link below to know the individual subjects in this stream.

The link https://www.hec.ca/en/programs/masters/master-global-supply-chain-management/structure/index.html can be used to see more details regarding this course and https://www.hec.ca/en/  can be used to know more general details regarding this institution. Another point to be noted here is that since this business school also considers French graduation, there are some other requirements that need to be fulfilled before you can start attending this Masters program.

The current campus is located on the Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road since 1996. A new campus of this institution is being built at a site adjacent to the Saint Patrick’s Basilica, between Côte du Beaver Hall and Rue Saint-Alexandre.

Montreal has the advantage of being a strategic transportation and logistics hub in Canada. Many players in this industry like Air Canada, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Groupe Robert, Logistec, Oceanex, Purolator and TransForce and international companies in this sector like UPS, Fedex and Hapag-Lloyd to name a few have a good presence here. Successful candidates of this course have a good chance to bag a job in one of these companies and they have a really great future ahead of them.