Collège Lionel Groulx offers Diploma in Techniques d’éducation à l’enfance, a diploma in Early Childhood Education programme in Sainte-Thérèse, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,150 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Early Childhood Education
Duration: 3 years
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
International tuition: CAD 15,150 / year
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Techniques d'éducation à l'enfance is a technical DEC program preparing students to work as early childhood educators. The program page describes it as suited to students who enjoy being active, working in teams, and helping children have enriching experiences, and states a 100% job-placement rate for graduates. Program objectives on the page include ensuring children's health and safety while promoting healthy habits through active, largely outdoor play; observing children's interests, skills and progress to identify strengths, challenges or specific needs; planning and organizing educational activities that support literacy, numeracy, creativity and healthy habits; participating actively in the material and pedagogical organization of the childcare service; accompanying children's play with patience and attentiveness; and collaborating with parents, colleagues and other professionals to provide the best support for each child. The page also references resources on the role of men in early childhood education, including a podcast and playlist, signalling attention to workforce diversity in the field. Admission follows the general college conditions with no additional subject prerequisites and no admission quota. Beyond several early-childhood-related university certificates, the DEC gives access to university programs such as preschool and elementary education, special-needs teaching, and psychoeducation, and the program has previously been recognized among La Presse+'s top-rated Quebec college programs.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The program page states no specific prerequisites beyond the college's general admission conditions: applicants qualify with a DES, a DEP plus Secondary 5 language of instruction, Secondary 5 second language and Secondary 4 mathematics, or training and experience the college judges sufficient, and must show adequate spoken and written French, with anyone lacking a francophone-sector DES required to pass the Bright test at a minimum of 3.7 in the written part, the oral part, and overall. The program has no enrolment cap, runs three years or more, and admits in both the fall and winter sessions. Applications are submitted online through SRAM.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM) at admission.sram.qc.ca: the college's own admission page states an equal-consideration date of 1 March for Fall entry and 1 November for Winter entry, which for the 2027 cycle fall on 1 March 2027 (Fall) and 1 November 2026 (Winter), with Winter 2027 applications opening 15 September 2026. Collège Lionel-Groulx does not publish a dedicated international-admissions page of its own; international applicants would follow SRAM's system-wide window, published as 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027 for Fall 2027 entry, though the college has not confirmed this itself. Admission proceeds round by round on a rolling basis after each equal-consideration date until seats are filled. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
