Scholarships and Financial Assistance

Annual scholarship of $7,500 per new student admitted to the first round and living in a municipality located more than 60 km away:

• from a campus of the Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles offering the chosen program of study

or

• from a CEGEP benefiting from this ministerial scholarship program.

No additional steps to your application for admission to Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles are necessary to obtain the Parcours Scholarship. If you qualify, a member of our team will contact you to let you know.

Scholarship Payments

An amount of $3,750 will be paid in two parts:

• for the fall semester, a first installment of $1,250 will be made in September and the second installment of $2,500 in October.
• for the winter semester, a first installment of $1,250 will be made in February and a second installment of $2,500 in March.

Everything will be repeated, each year, during the two or three years of study, depending on the regular length of the program.

Distance education students are not eligible for this scholarship program.

Students in the following programs are eligible:

• Transformation des produits aquatiques;
• Mécanique marine;
• Pêche professionnelle;
• Aquaculture;
• Maintenance industrielle;
• Technologie forestière;
• Travail social;
• Intervention en criminologie;
• Archives médicales;
• Arts, lettres et communication;
• Comptabilité et gestion;
• Éducation spécialisée;
• Informatique;
• Génie électrique;
• Soins infirmiers;
• Sciences de la nature;
• Sciences humaines;
• Social Science;
• Natural Science.

Student Mobility – One Semester

Students coming from partner CEGEPs and participating in a mobility semester according to the agreements in effect will receive $3,750 for their mobility semester, according to the same payment terms as those stated above. It is necessary for the student to be full-time to obtain the scholarship during a mobility session.

* Taxes *

The amount paid within this program is considered as income. You will then have to print the document which will be deposited in your Omnivox file by February 28 and attach it to your tax return.

These scholarships are $1,500 per semester, for 6 semesters, which represents a total of $9,000 for the entire duration of the studies. The following programs are eligible: 

• Soins infirmiers  
• Éducation spécialisée  
• Éducation à l’enfance  
• Informatique 
• Technologie forestière  
• Technologie du génie électrique

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