Diploma in Cheminement préalables universitaires at Cégep de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Canada is a diploma in Upgrading/upskilling programme. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Préalables universitaires (ministry code 080.04) is a Quebec-wide college pathway, not a full DEC diploma, offered at Cégep de Sherbrooke to help a student reach one or more specific objectives required for admission to a university program. Admission to the pathway requires that the student still needs to complete a designated university-prerequisite course objective, drawn from a Ministry-defined list spanning biology, chemistry, physics, differential and integral calculus, linear algebra, statistics, psychology, economics, art history and studio art, and second or third language proficiency. Course selection is built individually around the specific objective or objectives the student is missing rather than following a fixed curriculum, and a limited category of additional preuniversity-program courses (capped at 6 credit units) can be added for students admitted to university on an adult basis at that university's request. Because it targets a defined gap rather than delivering a complete program of study, it does not itself award a DEC. The pathway suits students who already hold, or are completing, other qualifications but lack one or more specific courses a university program requires for admission, letting them take just those courses at the college before or alongside applying.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This programme page is the Ministère-published description of the 080.04 « Préalables universitaires » pathway that Cégep de Sherbrooke offers, and it states admission conditions distinct from a regular DEC: applicants must already be pursuing or have completed college studies and be missing one or more specific course objectives required for admission to their chosen university program. The pathway lets them complete just those missing objectives at the Cégep, drawn from Ministère-designated science courses (biology, chemistry, physics), mathematics (calculus, linear algebra, statistics), computer science, and humanities courses (psychology, economics, music, art, English or another language); a further set of university-specific courses, capped at 6 units, is offered only on a given university's request. The document does not state a language-proficiency test, minimum grade average, or other admission condition for this pathway.
Application Details
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.
