Brief History
Concordia’s Faculty of Commerce became the John Molson School of Business following a generous donation from the Molson Family and the Molson Foundation in November 2000. The school proudly bears the name of the entrepreneur, John Molson, (1763 - 1836). He was an innovator and philanthropist whose contributions to Montreal have left an indelible mark on the city's history.
About John Molson
Born in Lincolnshire, England in 1763, John Molson was the eldest son of a farmer. At age eighteen, due to an illness requiring sea air, he embarked on an ocean voyage to the New World.
At a time when Montrealers drank wine, he founded and developed a thriving brewing business on the banks of the St. Lawrence. He founded one of the first commercial steamship enterprises and the first railway, developed one of Canada's first banking businesses, and built Montreal's first luxury hotel.
He built the city's first theatre, helped found the Montreal General Hospital, and sat on the Lower Canada Legislative Assembly.
Succeeding generations of Molsons have followed in his path, making the Molson name a national landmark: Molson's Bank, Molson Stadium, Molson Library, Molson Breweries, Molson Centre, and, most recently, John Molson School of Business. Read more on John Molson.
AACSB Accreditation
JMSB Facts
- 153 full-time faculty members from 35 countries. 189 part-time faculty
- 7,508* undergraduate students (5,666 full-time and 1,842 part-time)
- 1,470* graduate students (810 full-time and 660 part-time)
- 37,788 alumni world-wide
- Five departments:
Research Centres and Institutes
JMSB research centres and institutes are dedicated to improving business knowledge and theories for entrepreneurs and managers.
- Bell Research Centre for Business Process Innovations
- Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurial Studies
- Desjardins Centre for Innovation in Business Finance
- Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC)
- Interneg Research Centre
- Institute for Community Entrepreneurship and Development (ICED)
- Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations
- David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
For more information on the current research efforts of our faculty please read the JMSB Research Bulletin.
Rankings and Grants
- The John Molson MBA program offered by Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) is 78th in the world according to the Economist's 2012 Which MBA? ranking. Read more...
- Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business MBA program ranked third in Canada, according to the 2012 Knight Schools Survey published by Corporate Knights Magazine. Read more...
- The Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranked Concordia’s John Molson MBA program 42nd worldwide. The survey which allows recruiters to identify the MBA graduates best equipped to lead business in the 21st century. Read more...
- In 2007-08 our faculty have been awarded external research grants from SSHRC, NSERC, and FQRSC, totalling $2.2 million. This is a remarkable achievement, albeit partly due to SSHRC’s special envelope for management, business and finance research of $11 million. JMSB’s faculty constitutes less than five per cent of business professors nationally, and yet we garnered over 12 per cent of this fund.
For more survey results, click here.
Beta Gamma Sigma
Each year a select group of Concordia University's top business students are elected to lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma honour society in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in an undergraduate or master's program at a school accredited by AACSB .
