The Faculty admission procedure. The first selection criteria: ?Admission average' or the 'Candidate option'?

• Author: Antonoaie N.
• Pages: 203-208

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 8 (57) No. 2 - 2015

The Faculty admission procedure.

The first selection criteria:

‘Admission average’ or the ‘Candidate option’?

Niculaie ANTONOAIE1

Abstract: The paper presents a comparison (based on a specific situation simulation)

between the two admission procedures used in the ’Transilvania” University of Brasov’ for

candidates wanting to enroll in its study programs. Both the simulation and the presented

example (regarding the learning programs of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and

Business Administration), aim at finding an answer to the following question: which

selection criteria is best suited for the current learning market conditions: the admission

average or the candidate option for a specific learning program?.

Key-words: adminssion average, candidate options, simulation

1. Introduction

For an efficient selection of the candidates who take part in the admission process

for the learning programs held by the Transilvania University of Brasov two distinct

procedures are used, which are presented in the „Methodology regarding the

organisation and the running of the admission process – Annex 8” (Methodology

2015, 20), which are: „a. Taking into consideration the candidate options in the

adminssion form in descending order of the general averages” and „b. In

descending order of the general averages and the options expressed in the

adminssion form”. The first procedure was fully employed in the 2015 admission

sessions, for all study programs from six faculties and partially (only for some study

programs) for another three. The second procedure was used in eight faculties from

the university, for all their study programs; another four faculties employed it only

for certain study programs (Methodology 2015, 20).The main criteria used by the

first procedure are the candidate options (expressed in the admission form). After

this initial step candidates are arranged (inside every specific option for specialty)

descending according to their admission average; in the event that not all the

available places are filled in this stage, the procedure is repeated, this time taking

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, niculaie.antonoaie@unitbv.ro