Universities: the new platform for applying for a master's degree opens this Wednesday

Europe 1 with AFP 6:57 p.m., January 31, 2023

"My master", a new platform on the internet which should allow students with a bac + 3 diploma to apply for a master's degree at the start of the school year in September, opens on Wednesday.

A device which aims to reduce the tensions between supply and demand at the university.

The new platform, monmaster.gouv.fr, is intended for graduates of bac+3 level candidates for a master's degree.

It is open from Wednesday for an information phase, then students will be able to submit their application on this platform from March 22 until April 18.

The admission of candidates will take place from June 23 to July 21.

Each year, hundreds of students who have completed their three years of license cannot find any faculty to welcome them in order to continue their university course, hence the need to better guide them.

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No algorithm

Unlike the Parcoursup post-baccalaureate admission platform, which is partly governed by an algorithm, "Mon master" does not have one.

"The platform simply makes it easier for students to apply to universities, to harmonize the timetable and to speed up responses to applicants," the Ministry of Higher Education explained on Tuesday.

“As of Wednesday, candidates will be able to consult the entire training offer at the national level, the reception capacities, the contents, the outlets or the conditions under which the applications will be examined”, continues the ministry.

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30 choices max

From March 22, "each student will be able to apply at once" and make up to 30 choices maximum, 15 masters in classic training and 15 in work-study training, we add.

The applications, not ranked, then go to the teaching teams concerned.

“It is a way of multiplying the chances of admission for candidates”, assures the ministry, which specifies that in total, “more than 8,000 training courses are offered on this platform, for 185,000 places offered in masters” (some 165,000 students hold an L3 each year).

As with Parcoursup for entry into higher education, the student is then responsible for accepting or refusing the proposals made to him.

Students from a country in the European Economic Area (Andorra, Switzerland and Monaco included) as well as candidates of another nationality who reside in France, can apply on the platform.

A non-French candidate who resides in a country of the European Economic Area can also apply by regularizing his situation with the French consulate in his country of residence.