The CEGEP of Saint-Jérôme or Cégep de Saint-Jérôme in French is a post-secondary education school in the Laurentides region of the province of Quebec The Cegep currently rest in its current building since 1968 which before was a school directed by the sisters of Sainte-Anne. In 1967, several institutions were merged and became public ones, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created. The Cegep de Saint-Jérôme gained its independence in 1970. At its start it contained 2 wings, wing A built in 1929 and wing B built in 1963. It was only later that the building came to its present size with the construction of 3 new wings in the 1970s. In the year of 2007 the cegep accommodated a new wing for the Centre d'études universitaires des Laurentides, a branch campus of the Université du Québec en Outaouais. The Province of Quebec awards a Diploma of Collegial Studies for two types of programs: two years of pre-university studies or three years of vocational (technical) studies.