Heritage College (Gatineau)

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Heritage College (sometimes colloquially referred to as "Hurtage") in Gatineau is the only English-language CEGEP in western Quebec. What began as an offshoot of the much larger Collège de l'Outaouais with an initial enrollment of 7 students, evolved into an official campus and eventually a college. With an ever increasing population and a few stays in renovated buildings (including a bowling alley and a couple of french high schools) it finally achieved fully-autonomous status in 1988 as Heritage College. In 1994, it opened the doors on its newly constructed, more permanent facility; just down the street from its larger sister francophone CEGEP.

In 1977 when students were housed in the newly renovated École Ste-Marie, a heritage building on Maisonneuve Boulevard, this branch of the french CEGEP was officially recognized as Heritage Campus.

[edit] Programs

Heritage offers the following programs leading to a DEC:

Career programs:

• Accounting and Management Technology
• Computer Science
• Early Childhood Care and Education
• Electronics Technology
• New Media and Publication Design
• Nursing

Pre-University programs:

• Commerce¹
• Liberal Arts
• Science
• Social Science
• Visual Arts

¹Although Commerce is listed as a separate program, it is technically a profile of Social Science and thus, Graduates of Commerce receive a DEC in Social Science, not Commerce.

Heritage also offers several continuing education courses, some of which lead to an AEC. Continuing Education offers various intensive day programs for adults such as Microsoft Network specialist and Bilingual Office System Administration.

Night courses are also offered.

[edit] Admission

Application to this CEGEP is handled through Le Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain, although Heritage has no campus or facilities in Montreal itself.

[edit] See also

English-language CEGEPs:

• Champlain
• Dawson College
• Heritage College
• John Abbott College
• Marianopolis College
• Vanier College