The Parcoursup higher education application portal opened this Wednesday, December 18 for the 2025 session. The first phase provides access to information on the 24,000 training courses offered, a figure close to last year. Candidates will be able to formulate 10 wishes and 20 sub-wishes maximum, from January 15 to March 13 according to the official calendar, then will have until April 2 to finalize their file with cover letters in particular. A source of concern for parents and students, the platform presents new features this year, for greater clarity.
An “identity card” for each training
Among these developments, we can name the “identity card” of each training. This allows candidates to access a lot of information concerning the establishments, in particular their status: public, private under contract or without contract. Also mentioned is the selective nature or not of the training, the number of places available, eligibility for scholarships and whether or not they hold the “Ministry of Higher Education” label, guaranteeing the quality of the course. In reality, these elements are not new, but are now systematically displayed clearly at the front of each training course. Families and students are also guided thanks to the advice booklet “good reflexes for choosing your training”.
Chances of being accepted indicated
Another development: depending on the specialties of the baccalaureate and a given average, high school students will also be able to have an idea of their chances of accessing training. The simulator displays the words “rare”, “occasionally”, “regularly” or “more than 50%”, based on candidate data from the last three years. Furthermore, so that candidates can get an idea of the profiles that interest establishments, Parcoursup will make visible, through thumbnails, the profiles of students who have integrated each course in previous years. Here again, which in theory allows you to better position yourself.
Outcomes better explained
New data on job opportunities will also be displayed, with professional integration rates and continued studies. “Previously limited to BTS and professional licenses, the data is extended to general licenses, agricultural BTS, engineering, business and management schools”, i.e. 75% of the training offered, the ministry said. By the end of January, information “concerning the hiring conditions produced by the ministerial statistical services will be integrated into Parcoursup”he added. Enough to make visible “the net indicative salary/month observed nationally one year after leaving studies”.
A calendar better structured around the baccalaureate
Furthermore, the calendar has been adapted to the baccalaureate exams. The main admission phase will begin on June 2 and the classification of pending wishes will take place between June 6 and 10. A complementary phase of formulating additional wishes with regard to the places still available will then open on June 11, before the start of registrations on July 4, after the publication of the baccalaureate results. The first test of the 2025 baccalaureate, that of philosophy, will take place on June 16 and the last tests should conclude on July 2.
Last year, around 945,000 applications were submitted to Parcoursup, according to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. At the end of the first phase, in July, nearly 85,000 people did not have an offer of assignment, according to figures from the Ministry of Higher Education, which took into account the final results of the baccalaureate. Some students accuse the procedure of accentuating selection and academic pressure, a demand raised in particular by high school students during school blockades in recent weeks, mainly in Paris.
In its program for the early legislative elections, the New Popular Front had called for a repeal of the post-baccalaureate admission platform. Asked by Libé last June, Sarah Legrain, Member of Parliament (LFI) for Paris and French teacher, stated that “the CVs and cover letters used to sort high school students give rise to aberrations and injustices, and will not really be relevant in a system where we want everyone who wishes to be able to access university” .
For its part, the Parcoursup site, launched in 2018, claims to be limited to “transmission of applications” et “taking into account legal priorities”like the “rate of scholarship holders decided by the rectors for each course”emphasizing that these are “teachers in higher education establishments who organize vows examination committees”. The platform also denies increasing the selection: “the objective remains to fill reception capacities”as before the creation of Parcoursup. While sorting in the event of an excess of applications compared to available places was previously done by order of arrival or by drawing lots, it is now done from “of the examination of files”.
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