Diploma in Sciences de la nature is a diploma in Natural Sciences programme offered by Collège de Valleyfield in Québec, 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).
Sciences de la nature is a two-year, full-time pre-university DEC at the main Salaberry-de-Valleyfield campus, with fall and winter intakes. According to the page, the program builds understanding of how the human body functions, how atoms interact, and the physical and mathematical phenomena that describe the universe, preparing students who want to pursue university studies and careers in scientific fields. The page lists several distinctive features: multiple support measures to ease the transition into the first session, an astronomy observatory located on the college's rooftop, field excursions, and an annual student-produced science journal that the college describes as a unique concept in Quebec, distributed in several thousand copies to schools and regional businesses. Students may also take part in an optional research-oriented ecology trip to Thompson Island and can follow either a "Chercheur(-se)" research-oriented track available to Sciences de la nature students or an "Explorateur(-trice)" track open to the wider student body. It suits students aiming for university programs in the natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, or related fields who want early exposure to research-style activities alongside the core science curriculum.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Conditions: DES, plus Physique 5e et Chimie 5e, plus Mathématiques TS 5e ou SN 5e (ou Mathématiques 536). Aucune note minimale, entrevue ou portfolio n'est exigée. Admission offerte aux sessions d'automne et d'hiver; demande via SRAM.
Application Details
Start Date:Automne et hiver
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through SRAM: the college's most recently published Fall cycle (Fall 2026) opened 13 January 2026 with a first-round deadline of 1 March 2026, 23:59, and the same 1 March pattern is expected to recur for Fall 2027; Winter 2027 entry opens mid-September 2026 with a first-round deadline of 1 November 2026, 23:59. Valleyfield publishes no fixed international application dates: for the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 cycles it accepts only international applicants already living in Quebec who completed part of their secondary or vocational studies there, so the general SRAM international calendar does not apply. Admission for domestic applicants is not rolling beyond SRAM's rounds. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
