At College Ahuntsic 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.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Upgrading/upskilling
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Tremplin DEC - Mise à niveau (081.B6) is a bridging pathway at Collège Ahuntsic for students who lack one or more secondary-level prerequisite courses required for admission to a technical or pre-university DEC program. Students take the missing upgrading courses - offered in mathematics, science and technology, chemistry and physics at the secondary level - alongside the compulsory general-education courses (French, philosophy, English, physical education, and complementary courses), with a maximum of five courses per session. From the first session onward, a student can apply to a DEC program of their choice, and the Ministry allows a maximum of three consecutive sessions in this pathway before a program must be chosen. The page describes support from a multidisciplinary team of teachers and student-services professionals, including individualized academic and vocational guidance, access to the college's French and mathematics assistance centres and peer tutoring, and an optional physical-education study trip to Yukon. General-education courses completed during the pathway are credited toward the eventual DEC. It suits recent secondary graduates who are missing specific prerequisites or still undecided on a program and need time to complete requirements while exploring their options.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This is College Ahuntsic's Tremplin DEC pathway, the conditional route under the College's own admission regulation R-11 for applicants who are up to six credits short of a Diplome d'etudes secondaires (DES) or Diplome d'etudes professionnelles (DEP). The program page states no course prerequisite of its own; instead the College assesses the applicant's outstanding DES/DEP credits and places them in levelling courses, up to five per session over up to three consecutive sessions, before they move into a program leading to a DEC. As with every route into the College, applicants need Canadian citizenship, permanent-resident status, a student visa or a ministerial authorization, and anyone whose Secondary 5 language of instruction was not French must pass the College's own French-language test. Admission is processed through SRAM, with College Ahuntsic making the final decision.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM): Collège Ahuntsic's own site confirms it follows SRAM's standard three-round system for Fall entry and two-round system for Winter entry, which for the current cycle puts the Fall 2027 equal-consideration date at 1 March 2027 and the Winter 2027 equal-consideration date at 1 November 2026 (applications opening 15 September 2026), with later rounds in late April, late May and late November while seats remain. International applicants apply through the same SRAM portal; SRAM's system-wide window for Fall 2027 international entry runs from 15 March 2026 to a firm closing date of 14 March 2027, with no winter international date published for the college. Admission is rolling round to round until each round's seats are filled. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
