The admission schedule is the following for most students:
- 2 December 2024: Start of campaign
- 2 February 2025: Submission deadline
- 24 March 2025: Notification of interview
- 31 March 2025: Start of interviews
- 30 April 2025: Notification of selection
- 15 May 2025: Deadline to accept offer
For students from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro only, the admission schedule is:
- 31 March 2025: Submission deadline
- 7 April 2025: Notification of interview
- 14 April 2025: Start of interviews
- 30 April 2025: Notification of selection
- 15 May 2025: Deadline to accept offer
The following selection criteria operate in this hierarchical order:
- Applications are first checked for completeness and validity. Those which are incomplete or invalid are not considered further.
- Valid applications are evaluated and ranked on the basis of academic or professional merit. This is done through the documents provided by the applicants.
- Depending on their ranking and on the number of students foreseen for future admission in each track, the highest-ranking students are invited to an interview.
- At interview stage, students are evaluated on the basis of their motivation and their ability to integrate this international programme.
- Students are then ranked depending on their overall mark, which includes the mark for merit (60%) and the mark for motivation (40%). The mark is not changed after application of the other criteria.
- Two main lists and two waiting lists are then drawn up for each track:
- The numbers in each list are determined by the consortium every year.
- Students may be offered a place in a track different from the one they selected initially.
- Each main list ranks students, first those potentially offered a scholarship and then those only offered a registration fee waiver.
- The waiting lists also ranks students. Students on the waiting list are also offered to register as fee-paying students.
- In case of equality with male students, female students are promoted right before male students with the same overall mark.
- Geographical limitations apply then.
- If a student in the main list with a scholarship should decline the offer or should not reply in due time, the next student on the main list is offered a place with a scholarship, except if his/her nationality limit has been reached. If so, the next student on the main list is then considered for a scholarship.
- When a place becomes vacant on the main list, the next student on the waiting list is only offered a place on the main list without a scholarship but with a fee-waiver.
