Diploma in Musique is a diploma in Music programme taught at Cégep de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Canada. 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).
Musique (501.A0) is a two-year preuniversity DEC at Cégep de Sherbrooke, with admission in both fall and winter, that lets students explore a wide range of elements of the musical world within an environment where many musical styles coexist. Coursework covers instrument lessons, ensemble music, aural training, musical analysis, and music literature, giving students a broad grounding in performance and musical theory alongside a chosen instrument of study. Admission requires passing an audition covering the chosen instrument, dictation tests, theory, and solfège. The program page also notes that Musique can be combined with another preuniversity program, such as Sciences de la nature, Sciences humaines, or Arts, lettres et communication, as part of a separate double-DEC option leading to two diplomas, though this record reflects the standalone Musique program rather than one of those combined pathways. It suits students who are musically expressive and creative, open to a variety of musical styles, interested in participating in musical events, and eager to master an instrument while deepening their artistic practice, typically as a step toward further studies or a career in music performance, teaching, or related fields.
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 requires applicants to pass a musical audition covering instrument performance plus dictation, theory and solfège tests. For Fall 2026 entry the audition is held over three rounds (12 March, 30 April and 4 June 2026) plus a late-admission round on 14 August 2026; exact exam details are sent to candidates after registration. No language test score, minimum GPA, or portfolio submission is published for this programme.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall and Winter
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.
