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Online Application Procedure
Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Heiko Zimmer, Thomas
Hollstein, Prof. Manfred Glesner, Prof. Rolf
Jakoby

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time for convergence
www.tu-darmstadt.de/etit/ice
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Master Degree
4th Sem.
Master Thesis (6 Months)
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Exams 9 Weeks
Internship
Optional
Beginning of Program Winter Semester Program
Duration 4 semesters (including Master Thesis
and Industry Internship) Language of
Instruction English in the first year, English
and German in the second year Admission
Requirements Language English proficiency. No
German language knowledge is required Degree
Bachelor of Science (in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Engineering, Computer Science,
Mathematics Computer Science, or equivalent
combinations), or German Fachhochschule
conclusion in the forementioned areas, or other
higher education degrees, subject to analysis, in
the forementioned areas
Exams
Exams
Exams of the 1. Semester have all to be passed
successfully before application for subsequent
examinations
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Evoke interest andreach a broad audience
Maintain quality standardsSelect best candidates
potential conflict
Marketing is the instrument
Quality is the goal

• Focused marketing
• People
• Universities
• A win-win situation

• identify key qualifications
• build knowledge about education standards /
  universities

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average quality
good
poor
focused
start of application process
information about cultural / living conditions
audience
details about degree program and prerequisites
create interest
broad
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first results after broad marketing

• awareness was definitively created
• overwhelming amount of applications
• strong reputation as research-oriented program
• application requirements were often ignored
• application procedure had to be fine-tuned to
  cope with the demand

admission 2002 received emails
6000 applications received 1600 applications
accepted 157 students enrolled 58
admission 2001 received emails
500 applications received 30 applications
accepted 12 students enrolled 7  
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web-centric approach

• online application web form, with personal data
  and academic experience
• application number unique ID for the whole
  process
• scanned documents (transcripts, degree
  certificate and language proficiency) sent via
  email for analysis
• status is updated according to analysis
• universities are also profiled

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• focus on quality assurance
• application requirements defined as disciplines
  instead of degree programs
• self assessment tests available online
• online test covering specifically the program
  topics
• very pertinent issues for
• research-oriented programs
• graduate programs

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results
student
questions

step
timestamp
correct
university
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preliminary results
admission 2003 received emails ? applications
received 812 applications accepted 59 students
enrolled 23

• smaller number of applications
• better candidates (no spam applications!)
• simpler selection procedure
• but...
• many good candidates may have chosen universities
  who would admit them without a test
• technical problems (network lag, power failure,
  etc.) can affect the test results
• test database must be updated

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conclusions

• marketing and quality assurance must walk
  together
• hard to implement, specially in research-oriented
  graduate programs
• online application procedure is simpler and more
  efficient
• can be implemented with open source packages
• dont forget personal costs!

future perspectives

• clusters of databases
• candidates
• universities
• questions
• industry input

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred
Glesner
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Jakoby
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hollstein
Dr.-Ing Leandro Indrusiak

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Frau Traudel Micus
Frau Silvia Hermann
Randell Mendes
Unice Gwe
Zhao Xin Yan
Monica Manrique
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