Passerelles DEC techniques → baccalauréats (mécanisme général)

Université de Sherbrooke · Main Sherbrooke campus, Longueuil campus · Bridges / recognition of CEGEP prior learning

Published R score thresholds

This university does not publish an R score threshold for this program: the decision rests on your file and the prerequisites below.

Prerequisites

Basis of admission

Completed technical DEC

Eligible DECs and their conditions

Career counselling (orientation): 310.B1 Criminology intervention techniques; 310.B0 Delinquency intervention techniques; 322.A0 Early childhood education techniques; 351.A0 Special education techniques; 388.A0 Social work techniques
Business administration: 410.B0 Accounting and management techniques; 410.D0 Business management techniques
Health biochemistry: 140.C0 Biomedical laboratory technology (DEC from one of the 10 CEGEPs having an agreement with UdeS)

Required prerequisite courses

Health biochemistry: have passed the course MAT NYA (or the equivalent)
Career counselling (orientation): have passed the required prerequisites (depending on the target program)

Official central page (Technical DEC Holders): "Holders of a technical DEC are eligible for all undergraduate programs if the specific admission conditions are satisfied." Three mechanisms are distinguished there: (1) eligibility without specific conditions or with reduced conditions (bridging); (2) recognition of CEGEP units substituted by bridging courses to be completed during the first university year (bridging); (3) granting of equivalences for CEGEP units reducing the number of university credits to be completed (DEC-BAC bridge). The central page publishes NO exhaustive list of DECs/bachelor's degrees and no general maximum of credits: the detailed bridges are published program by program (documented examples below and in the program records). Published maximums per bridge: orientation up to 15 credits depending on the DEC (6 credits for 322.A0); business administration up to 15 credits depending on the pathway; health biochemistry 24 credits automatically recognized. There is therefore no single published maximum for UdeS as a whole.

Key dates

Date	Deadline	Applicant category
March 1, 2027	Application (the recognition of prior learning/bridge is reviewed after admission to the target bachelor's degree)	Quebec applicant / Canadian from outside Quebec — fall term

Possible bridging options

Prior review of the file for recognition of prior learning (bridge) Required

Orientation: "bridge-type recognition of prior learning requires a prior review of your file". Business administration: "Credit recognition requires a prior review of your file following your admission to the bachelor's degree in business administration."

Source

If you're not eligible yet

Technical DEC not appearing in the list of programs eligible for the target bridge
Grade below the group average for the targeted DEC activities (bridge in orientation)
Required prerequisites not passed

Official pathways

DEC-BAC bridge → Bachelor's degree in career counselling (orientation) (regular program only)

Published conditions: have completed a technical DEC appearing in the list of eligible programs; have obtained a grade equal to or above the group average for the targeted DEC activities; have passed the required prerequisites. Equivalence credits: up to 15 credits (310.B1, 310.B0, 351.A0, 388.A0) or up to 6 credits (322.A0). "A bridge cannot be applied to the co-op program."

Source

DEC-BAC bridge → Bachelor's degree in business administration (all pathways)

DEC 410.B0 or 410.D0: granting of equivalence credits up to a maximum of 15 credits, depending on the chosen pathway; review of the file after admission.

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DEC-BAC bridge → Bachelor's degree in health biochemistry

DEC 140.C0 Biomedical laboratory technology from one of the 10 CEGEPs having an agreement: 24 credits automatically recognized (66 credits remaining to be completed). Condition: have passed MAT NYA or the equivalent. Published warning: it is not recommended to have courses recognized if the R score is below 24 or if the average in the courses concerned is below the group average.

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Technical DEC bridging → Bachelor's degrees in computer science

DEC in computer science techniques (420.B0) with a predominant software development component: bridging allowing the bachelor's degree in the co-op program in two years and eight months (computer science and management information systems); DEC in computer science and mathematics (200.C0): recognition of six credits. Obtaining the DEC and passing the three prerequisite mathematics courses are required at entry for the recognition of prior learning.

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Direct eligibility with a technical DEC (without a bridge)

In the absence of a formalized bridge, the central page confirms that holders of a technical DEC are eligible for all undergraduate programs if the specific conditions of the target program are satisfied (e.g. kinesiology: technical DEC + biology and mathematics; secondary education, Science and technology profile: biological/chemical/physical technical DECs + one course per subject).

Source

No R score cutoff and no general minimum DEC average are published for the bridges as a whole; the only published numerical conditions are specific to each bridge (see pathways). The minimum DEC average is required only in the form "grade equal to or above the group average for the targeted DEC activities" for the bridge in orientation.

Official sources

Check your status with the admission planner Calculate your R score

Data verified on October 26, 2026 from the university's official sources. A past threshold does not guarantee admission: it describes previous years.