CEGEP (/seɪˈʒɛp/say-zhep or/ˈsiːdʒɛp/see-jep; French: Cégep; likewise CÉGEP, Cegep or Cégep) is an openly financed pre‑university school in the territory of Quebec's instruction framework. Initially a French acronym for Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel, once in a while referred to in English as a "General and Vocational College", it is currently viewed as a word in itself. It alludes to people in general post-auxiliary instruction university organizations elite to the training framework in the area of Quebec in Canada. It is a loanword from French. 

Albeit all schools in Quebec are conversationally alluded to as CEGEPs, just open universities are authoritatively alluded to by that name. Both open (CEGEPs) and private schools have the same capacity in Quebec. Despite the fact that they might periodically be contrasted with junior schools or junior colleges, CEGEPs vary in that a Diploma of College Studies (or Diplôme d'études collégiales, DEC) is required for college confirmation in Quebec unless an understudy enters as a developed understudy which regularly implies a base age of 21 with different necessities. Pre-college projects are commonly two years in length of time, which clarifies why optional school and college degrees are both one year shorter in Quebec in respect to somewhere else in Canada. An understudy in Quebec can't enter college with an auxiliary confirmation from Quebec alone. 

The motivation behind a different university training level is to make post-optional instruction more available in Quebec, and additionally to give appropriate scholarly planning to college. There are both open financed and private universities, with people in general CEGEPs having next to zero educational cost charge. 

A result of the Quiet Revolution, the CEGEP framework was begun in 1967 by the Quebec common government and initially comprised of 12 CEGEPs. Today, 48 CEGEPs exist in Quebec, of which 5 are English dialect medium. There are additionally College Centers (Center d'études collégiales), little open post-auxiliary training schools fundamentally the same to CEGEPs, regularly optional remain solitary grounds of CÉGEPs, similar to the Center d'études collégiales à Chibougamau, some portion of the Cégep de Saint-Félicien. 

Instruction way 

Understudies in the territory of Quebec who expect to seek after post-optional training must go to a school before selecting in a Quebec college. Understudies who take after a general studies program in Quebec complete six years of elementary school (grades 1 through 6), trailed by five years of optional school (called grades 7 through 11 or auxiliary 1 to Secondary 5 in English, however just called Secondaire I to Secondaire V in French). Quebec understudies complete one evaluation less altogether than all other North American understudies before starting post-auxiliary studies, finishing secondary school at evaluation 11 rather than evaluation 12. School then gets ready understudies for college or to enter a specialized calling. Most Quebec undergrad projects are three years long for Quebec understudies; subsequently, the aggregate number of years of study from grade school through a four year college education is the same as in whatever is left of North America. It is additionally conceivable to go to a college subsequent to acquiring a professional school confirmation, as they are normally treated by colleges in the same way as 2-year school certificates (partner degree). 

Understudies wishing to proceed with their college instruction outside Quebec must take one year of courses to satisfy the necessities of the establishment to which they are applying. For instance, understudies wishing to go to an Ontario college may finish one year of school and apply as a standard candidate who has finished evaluation 12 in Ontario. Furthermore, understudies who have a College Diploma from a Quebec school may apply for affirmation with one year of cutting edge remaining to organizations outside Quebec, as some cutting-edge courses at the school level may be surveyed as proportional t