What do the Dutch do if there are 10k spots available in a given university and 20k people apply?
What do the Dutch do if there are 10k spots available in a given university and 20k people apply?
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
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%).