In thirty years the number of graduates has doubled

After University School, the question that taps all new students is the success rate in undergraduate, especially in first year of DEUG until 2004 and licence (bac 3 years) since DMLS reform. This is twenty-five years that the figure of 50 of failure is circulating, that is twenty-five years that it is wrong. It must be specific in definitions: a student will be considered as in failure if he left higher education in the same State as that which was his when he is returned, i.e. holder tray, without more.

After the success at IBC, 95 of the General graduates, 85 of technological graduates and 47 of professional Bachelor continue graduate studies. In total, a Bachelor in ten only does not pursue higher education. In thirty years, the number of graduates has doubled. Since 1995, the proportion of college graduates in a generation languished about two young people on three.

The route of the students entering first-year licence in 2004 is now known. Nearly one in two successful a his first year in one year, one in five redoubled in the same curriculum, and one in four to is not reenlisted in University, without much always leaving higher education. Indeed, a number of new graduates registered after the tray in the first year of licence without having obtained a sector more adapted to their wish, senior technician including a section.

Two factors explain very much success in the first year of undergraduate: tray (General, technological or professional) series and the age in which the student obtained his bac. Three new students in grade four come from General tray. More than two in five students who spent the tray "on time", that is now eighteen years or in advance, get their first year of licence in one year, but only a Bachelor's degree in four late for a year at IBC gets its first year in one year. Students late at the tray in one year, be they are more than one in six to obtain their license in three years. Age at IBC is in fact that the sign of difficulties encountered by students in their education processed by a duplication, which is where the lack of effectiveness.

Students from the technological and professional series have a type of more accentuated curriculum profiles: only a technology Bachelor on ten and a professional Bachelor in twenty at a time when the ferry, get their first year of licence in one year.

Finally, in all the General or technological tray series, girls have better results than boys.

The efforts in schools and universities to improve the orientation of the students are significant for four or five years. Judged merely on the satisfaction of the students, the success is, since nine new graduates in ten say obtained the direction they wanted. If on the adequacy between the route already made and the upcoming route, still with margins of improvement. The considerable number of candidates in the first year of medicine for a numerus clausus in growth course, but increase significantly less rapid, is hardly satisfactory. In the opposite direction, most fragile Bachelor away long studies of license more often than fifteen years ago, be it college graduates with only a fair mention, cases of college graduates, or technological graduates late half to pass the bac. As professional Bachelor, one in twenty attempts only to licence studies where their chances of success are very low, but four out of ten are moving towards a section of senior technicians half alternating with a contract of professionalisation. Policy efforts are beginning to produce positive effects.

Finally, a student on seven left the University after four years of presence without having managed to get the lesser degree; This is the true figure of the failure rate and not one on two as some revel to say. Why not also mention the success More than one student on two successful its licence in three or four years after the tray (1).