How is my position determined, or why did it change?

If the course is capacity limited, those students who have a satisfactory ranking will be automatically enrolled. The current rank is listed in the "Position" column. The system uses the following rules to determine the rank order:

All those who have already enrolled in the course are ranked first (the Office for Studies may enrol the course regardless of the order). They have a ranking of 0. Their number can be found in the "Numbers".
In addition, priority is given to students who are actively studying one of the "the fields the course is directly associated with". You can find out if you have priority in the "Preference" section. To find out how many applicants do and do not have priority, see the "Numbers" section.
Last in the list are those students who are not studying the fields the course is directly associated with and are not repeating the course.

Inactive (e.g. interrupted) studies and studies with already awarded grades (e.g. recognised courses) are not included in the calculation.

Within these groups, the order is according to the time stamp assigned at registration. You can find your stamps under the "More information" link. If more than one record has the same time stamp, they are further sorted according to the record's internal identification in the system. For example, the time stamp is followed by 16/25, which means that it is the 16th of 25 time stamps created in that second.

If a student registers for the same course in more than one of his/her studies, the system will search for the course and change the time stamp to the best stamp found in all the registrations of that student. The change will not take effect until 24 hours following the registration of the course.

How can the achieved ranking change?

If the fields the course is directly associated with in the catalogue change, a different number of students will be given priority.
Repeat students will appear in the ranking (before the enrollment period begins) and will be automatically registered by the system.
Students with previously interrupted studies who were able to register but whose ranking has not yet entered the calculation will be registered.
The office for studies will enrol a certain number of students outside the normal registration.
A reduction in rank may occur if someone placed ahead of you unregisters because they no longer need to repeat the course or finished (interrupts) their studies. This change can also occur if a student ahead of you had the course recognized (students with a recognized course are not counted towards the course capacity).