Concordia University Courses & FeesMontreal, Canada

If you’re interested in business and management, but want the freedom to also take courses outside the John Molson School of Business, consider the Bachelor of Administration. We offer a flexible combined degree with a strong business focus. Administration is your best option if you want to add a special focus to a business degree, or if you started one degree program at Concordia, but want to switch to business now.

While most firms play catch-up with technology, your skills — built on a solid grasp of technology, business, process, project and change management — close that gap. This program turns you into a tech-savvy manager who can implement information and communication technologies (ICT), increase productivity and be an innovative entrepreneur. You’ll build knowledge and skills in:

• Information and communication technology
• Business process analysis
• Project management
• Critical thinking
• Communications and interpersonal skills

You spot raw talent, build great teams and bring out the best in people — a perfect skill set for human resource managers. Organizations rely on you to make diamonds shine, identify skill gaps and keep staff well-trained, happy and productive. You’ll need well-honed communication skills, an understanding of job markets, and a readiness to lead change. That’s where we come in. During your degree, you learn real-world approaches to:

• Analyzing and forecasting employee issues and job trends
• Negotiations and interviewing techniques
• Balancing corporate objectives with employee needs
• Encouraging social responsibility, diversity and integrity
• Workplace sensitivity and discretion
• Training and development programming

Reserve a seat in our business class, and you’ll be prepared to work anywhere in the world.

International Business students study commerce with a global perspective. In addition to examining management, marketing and finance in international contexts, courses draw insights from experts in the fields of politics, economics, and sociology.

You’ll acquire international street sense, adapting business models to differing workplaces, planning for cross-border tax, banking or legal issues, understanding trade dispute contexts, or addressing cultural sensitivities in global marketing campaigns.

Opportunities to practise real cultural exchanges exist inside and outside the classroom. Montreal, a multilingual and multicultural city, is the perfect place to pick up a second (or third) language. And John Molson School of Business students hail from more than 100 countries: nearly a fifth are francophone and a quarter speak a language other than English or French as their mother tongue.

Do you fit the profile of a 21st-century leader? The future leaders who come to our school inspire people, embrace diversity, build new business models and create wealth in socially and ecologically sustainable ways.

As a John Molson School of Business student, you achieve these goals by taking an integrated approach to management studies. That means you take an overall view of how organizations function: dissecting successes and failures, studying management from many perspectives and complementing every theory with an applied emphasis on organizational analysis and consulting.

Marketing is the art of persuasion: how to convey ideas, manage buzz and create desire. You persuade people to do things like: buy a car or vote for a politician. And it doesn’t matter if you sell smart phones or sustainable living, you’ll learn the strategies, tactics and measurements behind influencing consumer choices.

During your degree, you develop decision-making skills, exercise your creative mind and study consumer behaviour. You’ll also:

• Examine current marketing theories and practices
• Identify the information needed to tackle marketing problems
• Develop an ability to adapt to constantly changing marketing environments
• Hone your communication and personal-selling skills
• Learn to analyze market metrics and other types of marketing data

Supply chains make or break businesses. Companies beat the competition because they find, track and keep their products moving efficiently. They employ top supply chain managers. How do we know? Our alumni work at General Electric, Toyota, Domtar and other Fortune 500 companies.

As a Supply Chain Operations Management major, you will study the entire supply chain and its components. You'll learn how to:

• Organize resources: labour, material, money and time
• Model supply chains using forecasting and production planning
• Effectively manage scheduling, inventory, logistics and technology
• Make smart decisions, assess risks, manage projects and do trade-off analyses

You learn by seeing current and leading-edge supply chain practices in action. You examine case studies, play simulation games, go on field trips and listen to guest speakers from industry and business.

The Master of Science (MSc) in Business Analytics and Technology Management is a research-based graduate program. The program is designed for students who wish to develop into strategic, data-driven industry specialists and enhance their research expertise in the areas of data analytics and business technology management.

The Master of Science in Management (MSc) is a research-based Master’s degree program. The program is designed for students who wish to enhance their research expertise in the areas of human resources and strategic management. The curriculum focuses on developing knowledge about current management theories and skills in the tools and methods used to conduct advanced research in an organizational setting. The research expertise available at John Molson ensures that MSc students can work closely with a faculty member in developing their thesis in an area they are passionate about. Develop advanced analytical and technical skills valued by employers and engage with your peers in small classes.

The Master of Science in Marketing (MSc) is a research-based Master’s degree program. The program is designed for those who wish to enhance their expertise in the most up-to-date marketing theories and in the tools and methods used to conduct advanced marketing research. The research expertise available at John Molson ensures that MSc students can work closely with a faculty member in developing their thesis in an area they are passionate about. Develop advanced analytical and technical skills valued by employers and engage with your peers in small classes.

Located in the vibrant heart of downtown Montreal, Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) is one of the leading business schools in Canada. Recognized as one of the world’s top 100 and Canada’s Top 5 MBA programs (The Economist & Bloomberg Businessweek rankings), the program takes a practical, hands-on approach to business education. Our MBA curriculum emphasizes the use of timely case studies to present material in a way that closely resembles how the business world presents situations to managers. This curriculum is customizable as students can choose to focus on a specific area or explore different aspects of management.

Work with John Molson professors who maintain close links with the business community, frequently acting as consultants to the country’s top enterprises. Many of our 50,000 alumni, 4,500 of which are MBA graduates, maintain connections with the university as advisors, employers, volunteers and guest lecturers. This provides a real benefit to MBA students, over 97% of whom find employment within three months of graduation.

The John Molson Executive MBA produces leaders who flourish in times of ambiguity and fast-paced change. Ranked Top 3 in Canada (The Economist, CEO Magazine), Quebec’s first Executive MBA program is rooted in real-world experience, with a focus on business fundamentals, innovation, global integration and leading change for the future. The program covers fundamental contemporary business concepts and is divided into four thematic terms. Each term is capped by an integrative course applying the learned knowledge in a real-life context.

Collaborate with faculty members who are carefully selected based on their in-depth subject knowledge, proven teaching and facilitation skills and hands-on familiarity with the “real life” business world. They are able to draw on both their strong academic backgrounds and their extensive business experience to give our students the well-rounded understanding of business that will be required of tomorrow’s executives.

Offered by John Molson School of Business’ Goodman Institute, the MBA in Investment Management is a rigorous program that prepares you to pass the challenging CFA charter exams, while earning an internationally recognized John Molson MBA. This program is offered jointly in Montreal and Toronto and allows our students to pursue work and networking opportunities in Canada’s two largest job markets, resulting in 96% of our students being employed within 3 months of graduation.

Classes are held Wednesday evenings and all-day Saturday, giving our students the flexibility to work full- or part-time and take advantage of internship opportunities. Candidates will complete the full program within 3 years, however candidates who already have their CFA level 1 and extensive finance experience may be considered for admissions into the 2-year accelerated program.

The Master’s of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program provides students with an inter-disciplinary perspective, exposing them to a number of business and engineering areas, including marketing, industrial engineering, statistics, finance, change and stakeholder management and information systems. The program is focused on applied teaching and research of real-life supply chain management (SCM) issues. Students will tackle a SCM problem in the field within the context of an applied research project.

Graduates from our program will be particularly well positioned for careers in consulting, manufacturing, retail, logistics, distribution and software, as companies over the world are increasingly leveraging supply chain expertise to gain competitive advantage. The program will also provide a springboard for those students wishing to pursue a PhD.

Expand your notion of what it means to become a person in Canada and around the world by examining the many ways peoples, past and present, have organized the activities, institutions and belief systems that sustain social life. The Joint Specialization in Anthropology and Sociology allows you to observe and investigate cultural life in diverse societies while acquiring the training you need to apply social science methods to large-scale research projects. By taking a critical look at social problems and social change, you will enhance your thinking about the reasons for poverty, prejudice, crime and conflict. You’ll be able to apply our methods to nearly any place in the world, and any topic — from medicine, art and myth to human rights, sexuality, justice and power. A Joint Specialization in Anthropology and Sociology will equip you to make positive and effective social change in our society and around the world.

Design, code, and test software products – with the big picture in mind. You'll learn a range of skills that will allow you build Apps that capture a new market to large scale system like financial software and information databases. As a software engineer, your expertise in software architectures and refactoring, continuous integration and DevOps, and microprocessors will give you the tools to tackle these challenges everyday.

Concordia was one of the first universities in Canada to introduce an undergraduate program in Software Engineering. Our state-of-the-art labs for software analytics, big data, networks, 3D graphics, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence will give you experience with the tools you’ll use in the field.

The Master of Applied Science in Information Systems Security trains students to design, implement and manage the security of real-life information systems. Through applied research and academic coursework, you will be exposed to theories and practices currently used in securing information systems. You will have access to state-of-the-art laboratories and established research centres in a Faculty whose research topics include biometrics, cyber forensics, database security and cryptography. Financial support may be provided by a thesis advisor. This program has a Co-op option. Students should contact their academic advisor for more information.

The MEng in Information Systems Security trains students to design, implement and manage the security of real-life information systems. Through applied research and academic coursework, you will examine the theories and practices currently used in the security of information systems. You will have access to state-of-the-art laboratories and research centres in a faculty whose areas of study include cyber forensics, database security and cryptography, among many other categories. Some examples of current research projects include quantitative models of network vulnerabilities, analysis and design of stream ciphers and security evaluations of open-source softwares.

The Master of Software Engineering expands students' knowledge and research capabilities in specific areas of software engineering. Software engineers apply engineering principles and practices to design, test, operate and maintain computer software. The MASc program should appeal to students with an undergraduate degree in software engineering or computer science as well as students of related disciplines, such as computer engineering who wish to further their knowledge in a specific area of software engineering. It is ideal for IT professionals who wish to gain a solid education in software engineering at the theoretical and practical levels. The MASc in software engineering consists of coursework and research, culminating in the presentation of a thesis. Graduates can pursue their training at the Doctoral level (PhD), the department’s highest degree, and attain the greatest possible expertise in their chosen fields.

The MEng in Software Engineering is an advanced program in which students and IT professionals broaden their understanding of software engineering and its applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and practices to design, test, operate and maintain computer softwares. Students in the program will enhance their analytic and design skills and improve their ability to present technical material in written form. Graduates are trained to work on all aspects of the software product life cycle. They learn how to develop high-capacity computer software in a controlled, systematic and quantifiable manner and to ensure that it is reliable, efficient and financially viable. The normal duration of the program is two years, but it is also open to those interested in part-time study.