While students have until the end of the week to receive the answers from the training courses requested on “My Master’s”, franceinfo draws up a first assessment of the platform.
Students have until Friday July 21 to receive answers on the new “My Master” platform, which is the first year of use. On this site, some 3,500 master’s courses are offered, the objective: to allow all applications to be made in one place, with the same timetable, a bit like Parcoursup.
>> Higher education: 27,000 candidates are still waiting for an assignment proposal on the “My Master” platform
But the platform has experienced many hiccups on the student side, and many training courses are not filling up. Some universities have therefore decided to organize a second round independently, bypassing the platform of the Ministry of Higher Education.
145,000 candidates had at least one proposal
Main limit noted of “My Master”: the high volatility of requests. Students could make up to fifteen wishes, non-ranked. Some were therefore accepted in several places and had to withdraw. Even with a waiting list of several hundred people, there are still places in certain training courses.
This is confirmed by Samuel Sanchez, the vice-dean at the Faculty of Law of Nantes. There are places left in seven masters out of thirty: “To take a concrete example, one of our courses received 400 applications. 300 were classified and the objective was to fill around 25 places. Some withdrew and we found ourselves calling all the students who were on the waiting list. Despite this, we still had a few places open”.
According to the Ministry of Higher Education, more than 145,000 candidates have had at least one admission offer and 27,000 are still waiting. A complementary phase is therefore organized by several faculties, but independently, outside of my master’s platform. A sort of throwback therefore: “The downside is that these second phases are prepared somewhat urgently within each university. The timetables do not quite coincide, the digital instruments used are not the same. This adds a bit of complexity and stressful for students.
A real complementary phase next year?
Some actors in the academic world find an interest in “My Master”, but the expectations in terms of improvements are high, assures Marie-Karine Lhommé, the vice-president of the University Lumière-Lyon-II: “I would say that it will be better next year. This year, there has been a lot of improvisation on both sides. We have been trained in the different stages of the platform as we go along. The files to be completed for the students were long and repetitive. The teams are really exhausted by the management of “My Master’s degree”. This year, it was complicated and above all urgent”.
Faced with this feedback, the Ministry of Higher Education promises improvements and in particular the creation of a real complementary phase, within the “My Master” system.