Offered by Cegep de Saint Hyacinthe in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada, Diploma in Arts visuels is a diploma in Visual Arts programme. The programme runs for 4 semesters. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,150 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Visual Arts
Duration: 4 semesters
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
International tuition: CAD 15,150 / year
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Arts visuels et médiatiques is a pre-university DEC grounded in current visual-arts practice, offering a solid foundation across traditional techniques such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography, digital creation including image-editing software, 2D animation, and 3D modelling, and art history. In their courses, students turn their ideas into projects using the visual language specific to each technique, while art-history courses introduce works from different eras and from contemporary art, building the tools needed to understand, appreciate, and interpret varied artistic productions. Training is grounded in fieldwork, including visits to view art in Quebec and, at times, in New York as part of a pedagogical placement (stage), and gives students the chance to meet people working in the visual-arts field, such as artists, gallery owners, and museum collection staff. The program culminates in an exhibition of student work presented at Expression, a well-known exhibition centre in Saint-Hyacinthe. Facilities include a digital-arts, 3D-printing, and large-format colour-printing lab, a woodworking workshop, a photography and animation studio, and an exhibition space for student work, alongside a permanent collection of works by professional artists; an international placement is also possible. It suits students planning university studies in visual arts, design, or art history who want broad, studio-based training across traditional and digital media.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The program states no specific course prerequisite for admission beyond the Diplôme d'études secondaires (DES). As with all Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe programs, admission is processed through SRAM (admission.sram.qc.ca); a Diplôme d'études secondaires (DES) is the general entry basis. Applicants whose Secondary 5 written French mark was 65% or below and whose overall average was under 75% are placed in the upgrading course 601-013-HY before taking program-level French; a French-mastery test is required at application for those who did not take regular Secondary 5 French or who studied outside Quebec, and applicants from outside Quebec whose mother tongue is not French must submit an approved international French test (the Cégep recommends Bright) with their SRAM file. Every admitted student also sits an English placement test that sets their starting English course level.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants to Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe apply through the shared SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca) serving Montréal-region cégeps. For Winter 2027, applications opened 15 September 2026, Round 1 closes 1 November 2026 and Round 2 closes 25 November 2026, with unfilled seats carried forward. SRAM has not yet posted Fall 2027 domestic dates. Internationally, SRAM's Fall 2027 window runs 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027; its next window (Winter 2028) runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is rolling by round, not a single fixed date. The college's own site confirms SRAM processes all Montérégie cégep applications, and flags that Interprétation théâtrale requires auditions ahead of the SRAM application. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
