While the main phase of admission to higher education ended on Friday, Parcoursup reveals this Sunday that 562,674 graduates received at least one proposal admission. This represents 90.4% of them. A rate almost one point higher than last year, specifies the platform. This rate decreases to 83.1% if we count “all candidates, that is to say high school students, students in reorientation and people resuming studies”, indicates the Minister of Higher Education Sylvie Retailleau in the JDD. It was 82.8% in 2021.
According to the Parcoursup dashboard, slightly more than 94,000 candidates received no proposals during the main phase (40,308 high school students, 36,118 candidates requesting reorientation and 17,761 educated abroad), out of a total of 936,000. They were around 91,000 in 2021, out of a total of 841,518.
The complementary phase, which lasts until September 16, opens now. Candidates may “formulate new wishes for training courses that still have places available.” Parcoursup specifies that 100,000 places remain vacant in more than 5,800 training courses. Last year, this additional phase enabled more than 82,000 candidates to find a place in higher education.
The Minister of Higher Education specifies in the columns of the JDD that these places are located “both in the new Accès Santé licenses (62 LAS still have places), in law, economics-management or literature licenses, as well as in selective training such as preparatory classes, which are no longer full everywhere , in BTS or in BUT”. As of July 19, establishments that have places available will be able to send admission proposals to candidates, who will have 48 hours to respond.
For Sylvie Retailleau, “Parcoursup has been improving continuously, year after year, for five years. Today (…) The procedure has been more fluid. And there has been less waiting for candidates than last year”she says.
For Hervé Christofol, member of the national office of Snesup-FSU, he regrets that “this year is as bad as the previous one: there are still more than 94,000 candidates on the floor, it’s huge”. According to him, “this is only the result of a policy of not opening up enough places in the most popular courses, such as law, psychology, health or even the Staps”.