At Vanier College in Montréal, Canada, Diploma in Technologie du génie du bâtiment (mécanique du bâtiment) is offered as a diploma in Mechanical Engineering programme. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,610 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
Building Engineering Technology (221.C0) is a three-year career Diploma of Collegial Studies at Vanier College centred on the mechanical side of buildings: mechanics, thermodynamics, applied mathematics, and systems design, applied to electrical, ventilation, temperature-control, and refrigeration systems. Students learn how these systems are installed, operated, and maintained across different types of structures, building toward technical roles in building operations. The program includes a compulsory internship in the final semester, and students can additionally join the Work-Study program for two further paid summer placements, giving repeated real-world exposure before graduation. Admission runs in both the autumn and winter and requires advanced secondary mathematics (TS or SN sequence) plus specific secondary science courses. Graduates become eligible for professional membership with bodies such as the OTPQ and ASHRAE, and the program page notes that roughly one in five graduates goes on to university, sometimes with advanced-standing credit. It suits students aiming at careers in consulting engineering, building-maintenance supervision, HVAC manufacturing or sales, or municipal and governmental building inspection.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Building Engineering Technology (mechanical option) requires Mathematics TS 564-406/426 or SN 565-406/426 (or cégep-equivalent 201-016-RE) and Science ST 555-404/444 plus STE 558-404, or ATS 557-406/416 plus STE 558-402 (or cégep-equivalent Physical Science 105-003-RE), on top of Vanier's college-wide Quebec secondary-school baseline. No portfolio, interview or age condition is listed. No IELTS/TOEFL-style English score is required for admission: Vanier's admissions pages confirm English-proficiency testing is no longer an admission requirement, while a CEFR B2 French test (TCF, DELF, DALF or TEF) is required only of out-of-province or international applicants who did not complete Quebec secondary schooling.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants to Vanier College apply through the shared SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca) serving Montréal-region cégeps. For Winter 2027, applications opened 15 September 2026, Round 1 closes 1 November 2026 and Round 2 closes 25 November 2026, with unfilled seats carried forward. SRAM has not yet posted Fall 2027 domestic dates. Internationally, SRAM's Fall 2027 window runs 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027; its next window (Winter 2028) runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is rolling by round, not a single fixed date. Vanier's own international-applicants page confirms international students use the same SRAM system as domestic ones, bound by the same round deadlines. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
