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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by aianus on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:03AM (#21106804)
> Dutch universities can’t select for students

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

Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by hectormalot on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:48PM (#21108083)
Unlikely that this kind of growth suddenly happens. Growth of +\- 20% can usually be handled (eg booking a larger room for the lectures). So studies can usually grow their teaching base as needed.

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

Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by adamsea on Sunday September 29, 2019 @11:22AM (#21107540)
They would probably have their government fund building more univiersities and training / encouraging more people to become professors?
Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by mcguire on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:39PM (#21108027)
Just like that?

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%).