Le Studio Montréal

Montreal offers a peaceful, safe and caring environment. The population is welcoming and does not hesitate to help newcomers settle in. The city, with its architecture at the crossroads of European and American influences, is pleasant and particularly dynamic. In Montreal, winter is the time to enjoy the snow and winter sports (open-air skating rinks in the parks, the first ski slopes just half an hour away) or the 32 kilometers of tunnels that make up the underground city (the RÉSO) with its shopping centers, restaurants, cinemas, etc.  

In the professional world, access to responsibilities is not a question of age or experience, and it is not uncommon to see people of 25 or 30 years old occupying management positions.

Designers of all backgrounds and specialties have the opportunity to fully develop their talents in Montreal. Its many festivals and international events (music, comedy, circus...) are great opportunities to showcase the talents of set designers.

The "city of a hundred steeples" is also home to many companies specialized in digital technology, such as Ubisoft Montreal, the largest video game development studio in the world, which offers great opportunities for game designers.

By doing internships in local companies, Studio Montreal students also have the mission of helping people understand what design is and what it can contribute to new challenges. At the Centech incubator, for example, students confront their strategic vision of design with the logic of engineers, who are primarily focused on the technological solutions to be deployed to address a problem.

Photo: Stéphane Gouret, Deputy Director General of the school, Anne Brochard, President of the school and Jason Chapron, educational coordinator of the Studio Montréal for the project on the Transatlantic Crossing without Carbon / Photo credit: Charles Goddet

Studio Montreal's Master's program puts the emphasis on field experience:

• Internships, alternating with classes, are carried out every other week throughout the program,
• At the end of the second year of the program, a 16-week to 6-month internship in a company is completed,
• Studio Montréal students are also offered the opportunity to join a free Centech coaching program: "Acceleration". For three months, this program allows entrepreneurs and students to specify and test the product or service to be marketed, to establish the best model according to the target, to set up a team and an organization, and to find their first clients,
• Many seminars and workshops are organized in partnership with local companies, in order to work on concrete issues,
• The "Mini Startup" seminar allows students to create a fictitious startup in three months and to reveal their entrepreneurial potential.

It is no coincidence that the majority of Studio students stay and work in Montreal after graduating.

The Master's program at Studio Montreal leads to a 5-year degree in design recognized by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. One of the strengths of the program lies in the unique context of Montreal: a cosmopolitan metropolis that is home to numerous communities from every continent.

Throughout the program, adaptation to a cultural and social environment that is different from France is required, both in everyday life and in the way we think about design and confront it with other visions.