At Cégep du Vieux Montréal in Montréal, Canada, Diploma in Tremplin DEC is offered as a diploma in Upgrading/upskilling programme. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Le Tremplin DEC (081.06) du Cégep du Vieux Montréal n'est pas un programme d'études menant à un DEC, mais un cheminement de transition destiné aux personnes indécises quant à leur choix professionnel ou souhaitant changer de programme collégial. Le profil de mise à niveau permet de compléter des préalables manquants (mathématiques Technico-Sciences ou Sciences naturelles, science et technologie de l'environnement, physique, chimie) afin de devenir admissible au programme visé. Le profil orientation propose des cours de formation générale (mathématiques pour informatique, dessin, sociologie, psychologie, histoire de l'art) combinés à un cours de formation spécifique choisi parmi une vingtaine de programmes préuniversitaires et techniques offerts au Cégep, ce qui permet d'explorer un domaine avant de s'y inscrire à temps plein. L'admission suit les mêmes conditions que celles d'un programme menant au DEC, et le cheminement est offert à temps plein pour un maximum de trois sessions consécutives, à l'automne et à l'hiver; l'inscription à temps partiel n'y est pas autorisée. Une version pour adultes est aussi offerte le soir à la formation continue. Ce cheminement convient aux étudiantes et étudiants qui sortent du secondaire sans préalables complets ou qui ont besoin de réorienter leur parcours collégial.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Cégep du Vieux Montréal's Tremplin DEC page states that admission conditions are the same as those for regular DEC programmes and refers applicants to the college's general admission page; no separate secondary-course prerequisites are published for this pathway. 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; admission runs through the SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca), which ranks candidates on Secondary 4 and 5 grades and course averages. 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. Enrolment in Tremplin DEC is offered in the fall and winter semesters only, capped at three consecutive full-time sessions, and part-time study is not authorised for this pathway.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall and Winter
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.
