Diploma in Techniques de design de présentation at Cégep du Vieux Montréal in Montréal, Canada is a diploma in Applied Design programme. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,610 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
Offered under DEC code 570.D0, this program leads to a DEC in Design de présentation (visual and event design). Students learn to plan, conceive, and build visual projects for events, exhibitions, retail displays, and urban or cultural installations, developing skills in illustration, technical documentation, styling, merchandising, and set and prop fabrication within multidisciplinary teams. The page describes it as the only such program offered in the Montreal region, combining computer labs using AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, and SketchUp with fabrication workshops, digital cutting equipment, large-format printing, an ecodesign lab, and a 3D-printing centre. A work placement takes place during the final year, and students can build event decor within the college's own public spaces. A DEP-DEC bridge grants equivalencies to graduates of the Décoration intérieure et présentation visuelle vocational diploma. It suits students who enjoy translating creative concepts into physical, built environments rather than purely digital design work. Career paths described include exhibition, event, and promotional-space designer; visual-merchandising specialist; photography and advertising stylist; and film or TV set and prop technician. Graduates may pursue university studies in design, fine arts, fashion, marketing, or scenography, with UQAM recognizing some coursework toward its environmental design bachelor's degree.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Cégep du Vieux Montréal's admission page for Techniques de design de présentation states that the programme follows the college's general admission conditions, with no additional secondary-course prerequisites published for this programme. Domestic applicants need a Diplôme d'études secondaires (DES) or Diplôme d'études professionnelles (DEP), having completed the standard secondary French, second-language and mathematics courses, or an equivalent Canadian diploma such as the Ontario Secondary School Diploma; applications go through the SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca), which ranks candidates by Secondary 4 and 5 grades and course averages, with a bonus for advanced math or science selections, and some programmes add an audition or aptitude test. Applicants who were not schooled in French in Quebec must pass the college's own French-proficiency test (oral and written comprehension, grammar, composition); no minimum score is published. International applicants need a diploma equivalent to the DES (11 to 13 years of schooling, or a recognised 11-year record or baccalauréat for French-medium systems) plus this programme's own prerequisites, apply via admission.sram.qc.ca paying the CAD 85 SRAM fee, and receive a decision in three to eight weeks.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM): for Fall 2027 entry the online system opens mid-January 2027 and the round-one deadline is 1 March 2027, 11:59 p.m., with responses around 5 April and further rounds running into late May while places remain; Winter 2027 entry is already open, with a round-one deadline of 1 November 2026. International applicants follow a separate SRAM timeline: applications for Fall 2027 opened 15 March 2026 and close 14 March 2027, while Winter 2028 applications open 1 June 2026 and close 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.
