Evalauation of Austrian study pro­gram­mes with limited admission

In 2005, this paragraph enabled Austrian Universities to establish entrance rest­ric­tions for assigned study programs that were in high demand by German students due to the German Numerus clausus. 3s had already conducted an eva­lua­ti­on study on this subject matter in 2008/2009. Following this study, an obser­va­ti­on period running from 2009 to 2014 was evaluated and the findings compared with those of the first eva­lua­ti­on study.

The eva­lua­ti­on consisted of:

• an analysis of study pro­gram­mes that are affected by §124b UG 2002;
• a descrip­ti­on and typology of the different kinds of entrance rest­ric­tions / selection methods utilised;
• an analysis of data on the selection pro­ce­du­res (changes, effects, number of par­ti­ci­pan­ts, number of suc­cessful par­ti­ci­pan­ts, socio-demo­gra­phic data of participants);
• an extensive web-based survey of indi­vi­du­als that had par­ti­ci­pa­ted in selection pro­ce­du­res over the previous 2 years.