| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2025-01-01 | - |
| 2025-05-01 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Entrepreneurship In Technology
Program Overview
The Entrepreneurship in Technology program is designed to train entrepreneurs in the field of technology, focusing on launching new technologies such as computer applications. The program is rooted in the world of entrepreneurship and management, teaching students to find new ideas and explore the possibilities offered by new technologies, including emerging fields like artificial intelligence.
Career Profile
Technology entrepreneurs are, first and foremost, entrepreneurs. They think about projects, look for ideas, and evaluate them in different ways. If they are convinced of their idea, they will take action, defining operations, looking for key allies, and financing. They will then work to set up their business.
Main Functions
Technology entrepreneurs perform a variety of tasks:
- Search for business project ideas
- Assess business project ideas (different stages and angles)
- Define processes
- Managing staff
- Motivating staff and communicating a vision
- Establishing policies
- Seeking funding
- Set a budget and manage finances
- Sell your project and product (key partners, financiers, future employees, potential customers, etc.)
- Managing growth
- Assess results
- Managing risk
- Thinking about the next step
Employment Prospects
There is an entrepreneurial ecosystem for technology in Montreal and many other cities around the world. New apps, online shops, or distributors appear regularly, located in Canada or abroad.
Program Type
The program is an initial training ACE, mainly for people who do not have prior skills in the field.
Documents for Admission
- Admission form (online form)
- Payment of $50 CAD, non-refundable, for file review and $200 CAD Registration fee ($250 CAD payable through Flywire or Credit card)
- Copy of Passport Name Page
- Language proficiency test result (IELTS 5.5 or higher or equivalent)
- Copy of required high school diploma (others diploma when applicable)
- Copy of birth certificate translated into French or English by a certified translator indicating the place of birth and the names of the parents.
Admission Requirements
The person who has a training level deemed sufficient by the college and who meets one of the following conditions is eligible for a program of study leading to a college certificate.
(1) has interrupted her full-time studies or pursued full-time post-secondary education for at least 2 consecutive sessions or one school year;
(2) is subject to an agreement between the college and an employer or it benefits from a government program;
(3) has interrupted their full-time studies for one session and pursued full-time post-secondary education for one session;
(4) holds the diploma of professional studies.
Program
The Entrepreneurship in Technology Attestation of College Studies teaches students to:
- look for and evaluate project ideas;
- Make a financial package;
- Partnering with key partners
- Getting the resources you need
- Manage the company, its growth, and future development;
- Promote the company, its brand, and its product
Program Competencies
| Code | Competency |
|---|---|
| KZ40 | Analyzing work functions |
| 01TT | Communicating and interacting in a business management context |
| 01TU | Use current application software for business management purposes |
| 01TW | Search and analyze business data |
| 01TX | Develop and follow-up marketing plan |
| 01TY | Use sources of law that apply to commercial activities |
| KZ41 | Promoting products and services |
| 01U3 | Apply a management process in a marketing context |
| 01U6 | Analyzing accounting information for business management purposes |
| 01U7 | Preparing and managing an operating budget |
| 01U8 | Ensure the availability of goods in a commercial establishment |
| 01U9 | Use economic news for business management purposes |
| 01UE | Set up and supervise customer service in a quality approach |
| 01UF | Look for opportunities to trade with abroad |
| 01UH | Manage a product or service marketing project |
| 00SH | Adapting to IT technologies |
| KZ42 | Analyze the characteristics of information systems of various companies for the formulation of IT solutions |
| KZ43 | Develop conceptual models based on a structured approach |
| KZ44 | Develop a new computer application project |
Course Schedule
| Course | Hours | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| What is a technology entrepreneur? | 45 | 1.33 |
| Business communication | 75 | 2.00 |
| Management Tools I | 60 | 1.66 |
| Management Tools II | 60 | 1.66 |
| Marketing research | 75 | 2.33 |
| Marketing Plan I | 60 | 1.66 |
| Marketing Plan II | 60 | 1.66 |
| Business law | 60 | 2.00 |
| Mix-Communication | 75 | 2.00 |
| Management | 60 | 1.66 |
| Financial analysis | 45 | 1.33 |
| Budget preparation | 45 | 1.33 |
| Inventory management | 60 | 1.66 |
| Economy Today | 60 | 1.66 |
| Customer service | 60 | 1.33 |
| International trade | 60 | 1.66 |
| Project Management I | 60 | 2.00 |
| Project Management II | 45 | 1.66 |
| New technologies | 60 | 2.00 |
| Custom system design | 45 | 2.00 |
| Application modeling | 75 | 2.33 |
| Project formulation and ideation | 75 | 2.33 |
| Project | 240 | 5.33 |
| Total | 1560 | 49 |
Program Fees
- Intakes: Jan, May, and September
- Supplementary Intakes: Coming soon
- Duration: 2 years – 1560h
- Course Schedule: 3 days-week (AM-PM)
- Tuition Fees (Int.): $24,950 CAD ($250 Adm. fees Included)
- Tuition Fees (Local): $6,000 CAD ($50 Adm. fees Included)
- Attestation: ACS
- Brochure: Download
- Registration: APPLY
