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> Dutch universities can’t select for students What do the Dutch do if there are 10k spots available in a given university and 20k people apply?

• adamsea 7y ago
  They would probably have their government fund building more univiersities and training / encouraging more people to become professors?
  • mcguire 7y ago
    Just like that? I didn't know that the Dutch had unlimited money. Weird that the portion of the population with degrees (44%) is comparable to the US (46%).
• hectormalot 7y ago
  Unlikely that this kind of growth suddenly happens. Growth of +\- 20% can usually be handled (eg booking a larger room for the lectures). So studies can usually grow their teaching base as needed. Exceptions happen: eg the popularity of CSI lead to a huge boom in people wanting to study forensic sciences. IIRC they were allowed to limit the seats for those studies back in the day. Similarly, dentistry and doctors have a fixed amount of seats. They have a lottery that is biased based on your high school grades. Overall I think this system has the better outcomes ‘on average’, but that the true top students are not challenged as much as they would be in a more selective system such as the US/UK