加拿大安省的皇后大学皇后商学院，被美国的“商业周刊”评选为美国以外全球最佳的企管硕士（MBA）学院。皇后大学（Queen's）获此殊荣，亦是首度有加拿大的商学院获该刊物颁授第一名头衔。这项两年一度的评鉴上一次（2002年）亦评定皇后大学为加拿大最好的MBA学院，并且是美国以外全球第二优良的商学院。皇后大学MBA课程之所以受到高度的肯定，雇主对其学生的素质满意度是主要原因之一，“招募者‘爱上’他们”。
“商周”的评核基础利用来自三方面的资讯：招募者寄回的问卷、MBA毕业生寄回的问卷、教授在18家学术和企业刊物所出版的“智慧资本”素质。三者比重分别为45%、45%、10%。
皇后大学商学院院长尚德斯指出，该学院的毕业生最受加拿大以至全球的雇主的青睐固然可喜，但是包括皇后在内，共有四家加拿大商学院登上美国以外的全球10大，在在显示加拿大极高的商科教育水平，这是加拿大值得骄傲的。

Kingston, Ontario - The Limestone City

Queen's School of Business is located on the Queen's University campus in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Nestled on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, historic Kingston is a thriving community of 141,000 residents, boasting a superb quality of life due to its big-city amenities, waterfront location and rich natural landscape.
Established as a fort in 1673, the city is blessed with a rich civic and architectural heritage, a safe and welcoming environment, and economic anchors of academia, government and industry. Recently, Kingston was ranked as having one of the top three vibrant downtowns of Canada.
More than anything, Kingston is a university town, home to 25,000 students studying at three post secondary institutions, including Queen’s. Within a ten-minute walk from campus, students can access all that our eclectic downtown core has to offer: shops, restaurants and cultural resources, waterfront pathways and the 19th century buildings and homes that signify Canada’s “Limestone City”.
Located midway between Toronto and Montreal, within two hours drive of Ottawa, and 40 minutes of the U.S. border, Kingston is easily accessible by air, bus or train. For a comprehensive look at life in Kingston, please visit http://kingstoncanada.com/.

A History of Queen's School of Business

by Professors Mervin Daub and P. Bruce Buchan

In The Beginning

Queen's University received its royal charter from Queen Victoria and began operations in Kingston, Ontario in March 1842. Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada's first Prime Minister) was practicing law in Kingston at the time, but it wasn't until the following year that he first held public office as a city alderman. The industrial revolution was just beginning in Britain, steamboats were prevalent on the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, and the railways were just appearing in North America. The next fifty years would see an explosion in the North American economies, the emergence of the modern corporation - and the need for well-educated managers to run them efficiently.

The First Business Degree in Canada

Early in the new century Professor O.D. Skelton was arguing before the Board of Trustees that a School of Commerce should be established at Queen's "because there was much scope for improving the education of people going into business," and "... there were a large group of employees in the banks that could benefit from extension courses in economics."
In 1919 Queen's launched the first Commerce degree program in Canada. In addition to the banking program, which began in 1914, Certified Accountant extension courses were launched in 1921. The strong influence of banking and accounting courses continued in the School through the next fifty years.

The School Expands

In 1963, the School became a separate Faculty within Queen's. The first dean was Lawrence Macpherson, succeeded by Rich Hand in 1966. Dean Hand chartered a course that rapidly expanded the Faculty - measured both by student enrolment and number of faculty members - with a strong emphasis on new, more rigorous subjects such as operations research.

Innovation Drives New Programs

Since that time there have been four new deans - John Gordon, David Anderson, Margot Northey, and our current dean, David Saunders. Each has sensed the changing tenor of the times, leading the School in new directions to take on new challenges. Research output has increased dramatically, stronger ties have been forged with the business community, and new and innovative programs have been launched.
In September 2002, the history of Queen's School of Business turned a new page with the opening of Goodes Hall, home of Queen's School of Business.
For the complete history of the School, Getting Down to Business: A History of Business Education at Queen's 1889 - 1999, by Professors Mervin Daub & P. Bruce Buchan, may be ordered for $40 (tax included) by calling the Dean's Office at 613-533-2305, or e-mailing info@business.queensu.ca.