At Collège Lionel Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, 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.
Tremplin DEC is a transitional pathway at Collège Lionel-Groulx rather than a stand-alone program of study, intended for students who need to complete secondary-level prerequisites or continue general-education coursework before entering a chosen technical or pre-university program. The page describes it as suited to students who have not yet been admitted to their program of choice, who want extra time to clarify their academic and career direction, or who wish to strengthen study skills before committing to a full course load. A student can be enrolled in Tremplin DEC for one, two, or in some cases up to three consecutive semesters. During that time the college offers upgrading courses to help students obtain secondary-school prerequisites they are missing, including mathematics (Technico-sciences sequences for Secondary 4 and 5) and science courses (Chemistry and Physics, Secondary 5), each tied to specific secondary-level prerequisites of its own. Admission follows the same general conditions as other programs and is processed through SRAM. The pathway carries the administrative code 081.06, PR2. It suits students who are close to meeting entry requirements for a technical or pre-university program but need a bridging semester, rather than students ready to begin full-time study in a specific field.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This program has no separate admission-requirements section; the college's general admission conditions apply. Applicants qualify with a Diplome d'etudes secondaires (DES), a Diplome d'etudes professionnelles (DEP) plus Secondary 5 language of instruction, Secondary 5 second language and Secondary 4 mathematics, or training and experience the college judges sufficient. Every applicant must show adequate spoken and written French; anyone without a francophone-sector DES must pass the Bright French-knowledge test, scoring at least 3.7 in the written part, the oral part, and overall. Tremplin DEC itself (code 081.06, PR2) is a springboard pathway letting students who have not completed key secondary prerequisites take upgrading (mise a niveau) courses in Mathematics TS Secondary 4 or 5, Chemistry Secondary 5, or Physics Secondary 5 alongside general-education courses; a student must first have passed Mathematics TS or SN Secondary 4 before taking the matching upgrading course. Applications go through SRAM.
Application Details
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.
