Offered by Cégep de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Canada, Diploma in Arts visuels is a diploma in Visual Arts programme. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,150 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
Arts visuels (510.A0) is a two-year preuniversity DEC at Cégep de Sherbrooke, admitting students in the fall, designed to develop an artistic practice and stimulate creativity through disciplines such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital art. Students situate their own work within contemporary creative practice and examine the artist's role in society through the study of past and current artistic movements and production. The program page notes a particular equipment requirement, asking students to budget roughly five hundred dollars per year for artist's materials, with further details provided in the first classes. Graduates gain access to a wide range of university programs, including visual and media arts with specializations such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, media arts, textile arts, or fire arts, as well as graphic design. It suits students who are creative, drawn to painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and digital art, comfortable working with physical materials, and passionate about reflection, exploration, and artistic creation, typically as a step toward university-level studies or a career in the visual arts.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Beyond the Cégep's general admission conditions (a DES carrying the required units in language of instruction, second language and mathematics, with levelling activities if short), this pre-university programme's own page states no additional academic prerequisite, portfolio, entrance exam or interview. It does note a financial condition: applicants should budget approximately $500 per year for art supplies. The programme also offers an optional year-long immersion experience for students wanting to confirm their choice, arranged through the programme coordinator. No language test score or minimum GPA is published for this programme.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM), which also covers cégeps outside the Montreal region: Winter 2027 entry opens 15 September 2026, with a round-one deadline of 1 November 2026 and a round-two deadline of 25 November 2026; Fall 2027 entry follows SRAM's recurring round-one deadline of 1 March 2027, though the cégep's site has not yet posted a dated row for that cycle (its Fall 2026 table is marked as closed). International applicants follow a separate SRAM timeline, confirmed directly on the cégep's site: Fall 2027 applications run from 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027, and Winter 2028 applications run from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is not open-ended rolling, but SRAM runs successive rounds for as long as places remain. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
