HEC Montréal (formerly known as: École des Hautes Études commerciales de Montréal), is the independent affiliated business school of the Université de Montréal, and the oldest management School in Canada. It holds accreditations from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, one of three schools in North America to hold triple accreditation in management education. The full name of HEC Montreal was École des Hautes Études Commerciales; the school was renamed HEC Montréal in 2002. The name was standardized to differentiate it from the other HEC institutions such as HEC Paris and HEC Lausanne. HEC Montréal was founded in 1907 by the Chambre de commerce de Montréal with the help of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007. HEC Montréal currently has fifty research centres, including 22 research chairs . The student body is made up of approximately 12,000 students and the faculty consists of 250 professors. HEC Montréal has consistently been ranked among the top B-Schools in the world by major publications. It was listed among the top 10 "Non-US Business Schools" in Forbes' 2009 B-Schools rankings (biennial rankings).