Dresden 2009 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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AGSOE: Arbeitsgruppe Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
AGSOE 14: Poster Session
AGSOE 14.11: Poster
Mittwoch, 25. März 2009, 18:10–20:00, P1B
Distributing students optimally to universities — •Christian Hirtreiter1, Johannes Josef Schneider2, and Ingo Morgenstern1 — 1Faculty of Physics, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Since many years, the problem of how to distribute students to the various universities in Germany according to the preferences of the students remains unsolved. In a nowadays widely used approach, students apply for a place at various universities. The best students get then several acceptances, whereas some worse students fail everywhere. In the next step, the best students choose a place at their preferred university, such that places suddenly become free for students, who received a rejection in the first step and who now get an acceptance. This scheme is iterated several times, each time takes some weeks. Then the semester has already started before some students get the acceptance letter. But for some subjects, like medical science, students can lose a whole year by this way. The former way of distributing students was to apply for a place at some preferred universities at a central agency called ZVS (Zentralstelle für die Vergabe von Studienplätzen). However, due to a strange rule set, many students ended up at universities which were not in their preference list. In this talk, we show how the rules for distributing students could be changed easily in order to increase the fraction of satisfied students.