About College Marsan

The artistic professions attract hundreds of people every year.

For the most part, these dreams remain in the state of fantasies. For the others, mainly the students of Collège MARSAN, they become reality and allow them to make their turn to dream their audiences.

MARSAN’s vocation is, in fact, to support its students to the end of their creative vocations with rigor, realism and, professionalism by offering them, throughout their training, a teaching and a framework conducive to the development of their talents. Since 1978, MARSAN has been training professional photographer:

“CREATIVE” because open to their environments, with a strong artistic culture and mastering their creative tools.
“PROFESSIONAL” because able to analyze a customer’s request and to translate it with art in their various sectors of activity, while respecting both their artistic identities and the imperatives of production.

College MARSAN – Montreal

MARSAN has only professionals among its teachers. These practitioners of creation, production, and communication reinforce the links uniting the institution to the professional environment. But also and above all, they allow the College to offer its students teaching related to artistic, technological and sociological developments, changing the face of their future profession every day. The MARSAN team is its wealth. It is thanks to her that the school while complying with the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEES), can add to it the invaluable values of the daily practice of the trades it teaches experience.

This specificity allows it to be an inventive and voluntary institution and to conduct an educational project adapted to the realities of the professions and employment by adapting itself constantly to developments in the world of arts and new technologies.

College Marsan history

Where it all started…

Gilles Marsan, Founder

Mr. Gilles Marsan taught full-time at the versatile Edouard Montpetit in Montreal. In September 1976, he had the idea to rent the darkroom and the photography studio to teach classes on his own. At first, the school was called The Darkroom enr .. Advertising appeared in the newspapers specifying that the courses were aimed at serious amateurs. His wife, Marie-Paule Mignault, managed the business at home. She was from the beginning, adviser, and co-shareholder of the company.

After 2 years of such an operation and, in front of the popularity of his courses, Mr. Marsan leaves his job at the CCEH to devote himself entirely to his company and obtains, in June 1978, his incorporation under the name Ecole de photographie Marsan inc.. The school is working at the Palais du Commerce in 1980.

In 1983 he hired Michel Proulx and together they developed the idea of the Marsan College of Photography. As early as 1985, College Marsan offered the attestation of collegiate studies (A.E.C.) in commercial photography. Bernard Dubois and Robert La Salle then join the team and are still teachers at the College.

In 2004, Carlos Richer, a training photographer, took over by purchasing College Marsan after having worked there for more than 10 years as a professor and head of the computer graphics department.

In July 2008, Marsan College moved into the AMCAN building, corner Pie IX and Ontario in larger and fully-equipped premises for the College to make it the ideal school for the new administration.

In June 2018, the Salette / Esma College acquires the Marsan College which is thus integrated into the network of creative Icons schools. The college moved to the ExCentris.

Attestation of Collegial Studies (AEC)

The Attestation of Collegial Studies (ACS) is the sanction awarded to professional and technical college programs credited and recognized by the MEES. These are mainly short-term programs from a DEC. These programs offer only courses directly related to vocational and technical training in order to reflect as accurately as possible the recent reality of the labor market.

Like the DEC, the AEC must covered various studies and assessments before being accredited. Its content, its duration, its mode of teaching, its financial and material resources are the
subject of an exhaustive analysis of several governmental authorities. These institutions include, among others, the General Direction of Vocational and Technical Training (DGFPT), the Department of Private Education, reporting directly to the National Assembly and the Commission for the Evaluation of Québec Collegial Education. (CEEC).

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NON-SUBSIDIZED PRIVATE COLLEGES (ACPNS)
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CAREER COLLEGES (NACC)